ncat RAM4 CW63 Wavellite (or Fluorwavellite), Variscite, Wood Mine, Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA

Colourless-white radiating sprays of wavellite (or fluorwavellite) with pale pink (ferrian) variscite crystals. The paper describing fluorwavellite states that all specimens analysed were fluorwavellite, but that does not guarantee that wavellite doesn’t occur. Without analysis, you just don’t know as both species are visually indistinguishable. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Joint Type Locality for fluorwavellite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.

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