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Winstanleyite from
Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Description
Type Locality:	Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA is the type locality for Winstanleyite
Comments:	Occurs in a quartz-adularia-opal rock formed by alteration of granodiorite.
Habit:	simple cubes to 0.5 mm on an edge
Colour:	Yellow, tan, cream-colored
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 421; Williams, S.A. (1979), Girdite, oboyerite, fairbankite, and winstanleyite, four new tellurium minerals from Tombstone, AZ, Min.Mag.: 43: 453-457.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Adularia Chlorargyrite Jarosite Opal Pyrite Quartz Rodalquilarite
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Winstanleyite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
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