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| Type Locality: | Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA is the type locality for Fairbankite |
| Comments: | Tiny, clear crystals in thin crusts plastered of walls of voids left by leaching of galena. Closely associated with oboyerite. |
| Habit: | Crystals less than 0.5 mm |
| Colour: | Colorless |
| Quality of samples: | not specified / average specimens |
| Confirmation | |
| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| References | |
| References: | Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 218; Williams, S.A. (1979), Girdite, oboyerite, fairbankite, and winstanleyite, four new tellurium minerals from Tombstone, AZ, Min.Mag.: 43: 453-457. |
| Associated minerals: | |
| Associates: | Oboyerite |
| Data | |
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Fairbankite 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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