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Linarite Redgillite & Anglesite

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Linarite Redgillite & Anglesite

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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: 
2.5 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug hosting nice crystals of linarite with numerous tiny spheres of redgillite needles and a nice anglesite rhomb. The only natural occurence of redgillite in the USA! Nice specimen from this interesting, newly investigated locality. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain

Redgillite

Formula: 
Cu6(SO4)(OH)10·H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.70
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Silver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK

Anglesite

Formula: 
PbSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom

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