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Wroewolfeite

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Wroewolfeite

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Description
Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Waterville Lake, Haywood County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 0.7 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with hundreds of tiny, rectangular wroewolfeite crystals covering the top of a small matrix. This is a new mineral for NC and one of many unusual minerals recently discovered at this little investigated locality. Associated with linarite and some tiny green needles that may be redgillite. From analyzed material. 

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Wroewolfeite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Manhan Mines (Loudville Mine; Southampton Lead Mine; Northampton Lead Mine), Easthampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, USA

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