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Cherokeeite & Bechererite

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Cherokeeite & Bechererite

New Mineral type

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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: 
1.8 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug hosting a pale pink bladed cluster of the recently IMA approved new species cherokeeite that I discovered at the Redmond Mine. In anther vug close by is a colorless crystal cluster of Si and Cu free analogue of bechererite. Author's material! The FOV in the photo is 1.41mm. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cherokeeite

Formula: 
[Pb2Zn(OH)4](SO4) · H2O
Strunz: 
7.DF.
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Type Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Waterville Lake, Haywood County, North Carolina, United States of America

Bechererite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)6Zn2(SO4,HSiO4)2(OH)12
Strunz: 
7.DD.55
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tonopah-Belmont Mine (East Vulture Mine; Belmont-McNeil Mine; Economy Mining Co. Mine), Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA

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