Mineralpedia Details for Rajite
Rajite
Named after Robert Allen Jenkins (initials RAJ), an American mineralogist and geologist for the Phelps Dodge Corporation, now Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., as the first to discover the species. Rajite is a rare mineral that occurs as a coating on fractures through silicified rhyolite breccia. Found only at its type locality at the Lone Pine mine in New Mexico, USA and also one other reported locality in Japan.
Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/rajite.pdf
- Formula
- CuTe4+2O5
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Crystalline - Fine
- Cleavage
- Indistinct, Indistinct, None
- Color
- green
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Hardness
- 4
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Rajite from Lone Pine mine, Catron Co., New Mexico, United States
Green scales on matrix.
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