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Sidpietersite

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Rare Mineral

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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: 
2 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a suite of interesting minerals from the Redmond Mine. One vug hosts a cluster of extremely rare, tabular, pearly sidpietersite crystals from what is the third world locality for this rare species. Another vug hosts a cluster of brown UK3 crystals and a tiny bladed cluster of UK4. Both new species are currently being worked on and this is one of the 5 known sidpietersite samples from the locality. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sidpietersite

Formula: 
Pb4(S2O3)O2(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.JA.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia

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