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Walfordite

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Description
Locality: 
Filón 450, Rodalquilar, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.7 × 0.3 cm
Weight: 
1.00gr
Description

Named by Malcolm E. Back, Joel D. Grice, Robert A. Gault, A. J. Criddle and Joseph A. Mandarino in 1999 in honor of Phillip Walford, wolfordite had only appeared at its type locality, Wendy pit, Tambo Mine, Vicuña, Elqui Province, Coquimbo, Chile.

Thanks to the field work and research carried out by Borja Saenz de Baranda, Juan Peña and Jose Ignacio Ramos, this rare mineral has been found in the 450 Filon at Rodalquilar, Almeria, Spain.

The lemon yellow colored walfordite crystal is on quartz-alunite matrix and together with rodalquilarite.

Recently published in Paragénesis, Revista de Mineralogía, Vol. 4, nº 2, November 2023.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Walfordite

Formula: 
(Fe3+,Te6+)Te4+3O8
Strunz: 
4.JK.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Orange
Type Locality: 
Wendy open pit (Wendy pit), Tambo Mine, El Indio deposit, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, Chile

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