Tennessee

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,...

September 27, 2024

North and Central Americas Tennessee United States

ncat RAM4 1295 Calcite, Pyrite, Gray Quarry, Gray, Sullivan Co., Tennessee, USA

Small pyrite crystals on calcite crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Allegedly, a dead tree once stood over this quarry with the inscription “D. Boon (Daniel Boone) Cilled...