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Kennygayite Sidpietersite & Elyite

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Kennygayite Sidpietersite & Elyite

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: 
2.1 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a tiny cluster of the new and extremely rare new mineral kennygayite. The kennygayite is the colorless, twinned cluster of crystals just to the left of center in the cluster of minerals which contains white globular sidpietersite and spheres of elyite needles. Kennygayite is an extremely rare mineral and less than 15 samples were found including the type samples. Author's material! The FOV in the photo is 1.01mm. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kennygayite

Formula: 
[Pb4O2(OH)2](SO4)
Strunz: 
7.BD.
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Type Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Waterville Lake, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA

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

Elyite

Formula: 
Pb4Cu(SO4)O2(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
7.DF.65
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
Purple
Type Locality: 
Caroline tunnel, Ward mine (Silver King mine), Ward District, White Pine Co., Nevada, USA

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