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Carlfriesite - Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico (TL) (#:MINS9168)

Specimen with yellow Carlfriesite xls up to 0.8 mm richly set on matrix with green Tlapallite in association.

Formula :
Ca[Te₂⁴⁺Te⁶⁺O₈]
System: monoclinic Hardness:3½ Rarity:very rare
Strunz id:IV/K.13-30 - OXIDES and HYDROXIDES
Name origin: Named in honor of Carl Fries Jr. (30 September 1910, Chicago, Illinois, USA - 11 July 1965, Mexico City, Mexico), geologist with the United States Geological Survey. For 18 years, starting in 1942, he worked in Mexico as a member of an American technical group. He later worked at the Instituto de Geología in Mexico City.