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Paratellurite

Year of discovery: 1960 (Santa Rosa mine, Mexico, and Moctezuma mine, Mexico), 1964 (Japan)

Locality list: 2 localities of paratellurite

• TeO₂
• [Te⁴⁺][O₂]^4-

• Class: Oxide

• Polymorph: Tellurite (Orthorhombic)

• Te => Ge: Argutite
• Te => Mn: Pyrolusite (β), Ramsdellite (γ), Akhtenskite (ε)
• Te => Ti: Rutile, Anatase, Brookite
• Te => Pb: Scrutinyite(α), Plattnerite
• Te => Si: Quartz (α), β-Quartz (β), Tridymite, Cristobalite, Coesite, Stishovite, Mogánite (Moganite)
• Te => V: Paramontroseite
• Te => Mo: Tugarinovite
• Te => U: Uraninite
• Te => Th: Thorianite
• Te => Ce: Cerianite-(Ce)
• Te => Se: Downeyite
• Te => Zr: Baddeleyite
• Te => Sn: Cassiterite

• Color: Gray, Pale yellow
• Streak: White
• Luster: Resinous, Pearly
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Platy

• Cleavage: Perfect (1 plane)
• Hardness: 1
• Density: 5.6

• System: Tetragonal
• Group: 422, P4₁2₁2₁
• Lattice: a=4.8, c=7.6