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

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