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Cuprocherokeeite & Hexathioplumbite

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Cuprocherokeeite & Hexathioplumbite

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: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.1 × 2.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a miniature sample with one vug hosting a small group of the extremely rare new mineral cuprocherokeeite and another vug hosting a tiny hexagonal prism of the new mineral hexathioplumbite. Both minerals are extremely rare at the mine and few specimens are known for each. This is also the only specimen with both these minerals on the same piece. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprocherokeeite

Formula: 
[Pb8Zn3Cu2+(OH)16](SO4)4 · 4H2O
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Type Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Haywood Co, North Carolina, USA

Hexathioplumbite

Formula: 
[Pb4OH4]Pb(S2O3)3
Strunz: 
7.JA.
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Type Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Waterville Lake, Haywood County, North Carolina, United States of America

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