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Dinilawiite & Cherokeeite

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Dinilawiite & Cherokeeite

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 × 1.8 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with two spots hosting many tiny, colorless tabular crystals of the extremely rare and exotic new species dinilawiite in association with larger pale blue clusters of the new species cherokeeite. This is most likely the ONLY dinilawiite specimen I will ever offer publicly as there are only about 9 known samples of the mineral. Collected by myself in 2019. Analyzed. The FOV in each of the close up photos is 1.1mm. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dinilawiite

Formula: 
[Pb4O2Al(OH)5]2(S2O3)2 · H2(S2O3)(H2O)5
Strunz: 
4.FM.
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Type Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Haywood Co, North Carolina, USA

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

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