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Boojumite & Haywoodite

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Boojumite & Haywoodite

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: 
2.6 × 1.1 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some yellow plates of the extremely rare new mineral boojumite in association with some small, blocky crystals of the new mineral haywoodite. Less than 10 samples of boojumite were recovered in my research there, and less than 20 of haywoodite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Boojumite

Formula: 
Pb8O4(OH)2(S2O3)3
Strunz: 
7.JA.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Type Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Waterville Lake, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA

Haywoodite

Formula: 
[Pb(H2O)10][Zn12(OH)20(H2O)(SO4)3]
Strunz: 
7.DF.
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Type Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Waterville Lake, Haywood County, North Carolina, United States of America

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