Haywoodite

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Formula: [Pb(H2O)10)][Zn12(OH)20(H2O)(SO4)3]
Sulphate, namuwite group
Crystal System: Triclinic
Specific gravity: 3.27 measured, 3.265 calculated for the empirical formula
Hardness: 2½
Streak: White
Colour: Colourless to pale pink
Luminescence: Haywoodite does not fluoresce under long wave or short wave UV
Solubility: In room-temperature, dilute hydrochloric acid, crystals immediately turn opaque and slowly dissolve
Environments

Metamorphic environments
Hydrothermal environments

Haywoodite is a new mineral, approved in 2021 and to date reported only from the type locality.

Localities

The type locality, the Redmond Mine, Waterville Lake, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA, is a very small and long-inactive lead - zinc mine with a highly unusual secondary assemblage of lead - zinc - copper sulphates, thiosulphates [compounds containing the anion (S2O3)2-] and carbonates.
Haywoodite and hanahanite were found underground at the mine. The ore, composed mainly of galena and sphalerite with lesser chalcopyrite, occurs in an epithermal vein system consisting of disconnected sulphide-bearing quartz lenses near the contact between a granite gneiss and a mica schist. Haywoodite and hanahanite occur in an unusual, localised, secondary mineral assemblage in vugs in massive galena -sphalerite - chalcopyrite - quartz. Haywoodite occurs with chenite, cherokeeite, elyite, lanarkite, redmondite, and sulfatoredmondite (CJMP 61.1137-1149).

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