Mineralpedia Details for Nabokoite
Nabokoite
- Formula
- Cu2+7Te4+O4(SO4)5·KCl
- Crystal System
- Tetragonal
- Crystal Habit
- Tabular
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- yellow, yellow brown
- Streak
- yellowish brown
- Class
- Tetragonal - Ditetragonal Dipyramidal
- Hardness
- 2-2.5
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Nabokoite from Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
- Special Info
- XRD Confirmed,EDS Confirmed,Type & Only Locality
This is a one locality mineral and is an extremely rare copper tellurate. The specimen has a tiny orange tabular crystal to about 0.5mm or maybe a little less. Identified by Dr. Igor Pekov, to whom described the mineral.
The excat locality is: Yadovitaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russia
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