Frankhawthorneite Cu₂Te⁶⁺O₄(OH)₂ is a

monoclinic In crystallography, the monoclinic crystal system is one of the seven crystal systems. A crystal system is described by three vectors. In the monoclinic system, the crystal is described by vectors of unequal lengths, as in the orthorhombic s ...

copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...

tellurate In chemistry tellurate is a compound containing an oxyanion of tellurium where tellurium has an oxidation number of +6. In the naming of inorganic compounds it is a suffix that indicates a polyatomic anion with a central tellurium atom.

mineral (space group ''P2₁/n'') named after Prof. Frank Christopher Hawthorne (born 1946),

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. It was discovered at Centennial Eureka Mine, Tintic District, East Tintic Mountains,

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, in 1995. It has a leaf green

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Copper(II) minerals Juab County, Utah Tellurate and selenate minerals Monoclinic minerals Minerals in space group 14 {{oxide-mineral-stub

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