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SULFATES BORATES TUNGSTATES AND MOLYBDATES ARSENATRES ARSENIDES PHOSPHATES AND VANADATES UNNAMED MINERALS


The sulfates

ANGLESITE

ANHYDRITE

ANTLERITE

BARITE

BASSANITE

BIANCHITE

BROCHANTITE

CELESTINE

CHARLESITE

CONNELLITE

DEVILLINE

EPSOMITE

GYPSUM

HALOTRICHITE

HAUCKITE

HEXAHYDRITE

LAWSONBAUERITE

LINARITE

MOOREITE

ORTHOSERPIERITE

SERPIERITE

SPANGOLITE

STARKEYITE

TORREYITE

The borates

FLUOBORITE

MCALLISTERITE

ROWEITE

SUSSEXITE


The tungstates and molybdates

FERRIMOLYBDITE

HUEBNERITE

POWELLITE

SCHEELITE

WULFENITE

LINARITE

PbCu(SO4)(OH)2 
Monoclinic

Linarite, a lead copper sulfate hydroxide mineral, was first reported from Sterling Hill by Cook (1973) and is not known from Franklin. It occurs as bright-blue microcrystals associated with devilline, brochantite, and gypsum. It is differentiated from azurite in part by a lack of effervescence in HCl. It has been verified by the writer on a number of Sterling Hill specimens, in association with brochantite and other species and likely formed by the alteration of galena and chalcocite or of galena and chalcopyrite.

 

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CHAPTER 24. SULFATES, BORATES, TUNGSTATES, AND MOLYBDATES