numerous small specimens have been found both in rock and slag vesicles of light blue silky sprays and tuffs that i long supposed to be aurichalcite. but recently jason Smith had this material analyzed (consult him for details) and determined it is serpierite. This makes more sense anyway given sulfate associates. Steve Adams

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Original Entry	numerous small specimens have been found both in rock and slag vesicles of light blue silky sprays and tuffs that i long supposed to be aurichalcite. but recently jason Smith had this material analyzed (consult him for details) and determined it is serpierite. This makes more sense anyway given sulfate associates. Steve Adams
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Full Reference	numerous small specimens have been found both in rock and slag vesicles of light blue silky sprays and tuffs that i long supposed to be aurichalcite. but recently jason Smith had this material analyzed (consult him for details) and determined it is serpierite. This makes more sense anyway given sulfate associates. Steve Adams
Plain Text	numerous small specimens have been found both in rock and slag vesicles of light blue silky sprays and tuffs that i long supposed to be aurichalcite. but recently jason Smith had this material analyzed (consult him for details) and determined it is serpierite. This makes more sense anyway given sulfate associates. Steve Adams

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Silver Hill Mine, Silver Hill, Silver Hill Mining District, Carolina Slate Belt, Davidson County, North Carolina, USA	ⓘ Serpierite

	Both rinkite-(Ce) and moandrite-(Ce) have been verified from MSH. This entry is needed for specimens that have not been fully analyzed.
	Jason B. Smith visual I.D To follow up on Jason, I (Steve Adams) obtained a micro of "elyite" in a slag vesicle from this mine with a few really tiny lavender hairs. This piece is now in the Kenny Gay collection. Both the visual I.D. and the geochemistry of its context make sense. No one has yet succeeded in collecting the mineral in the actual dump rocks, even though the other minerals (except caledonite) have all been found in the rocks.
	Small beige to white bladed crystals of barite associated with small quartz crystals have been found in the past but very rare. One that I found decades ago now in the Kenny Gay collection. Steve Adams
	Epidote, epidote-(Sr) and hancockite have all been reported from here. So clearly "epidote group" is valid. I added this to the list because for some specimens, the dominant specis can not be determined without WDS.
	Almost all members of this group have been verified from MSH. The category is neeed for partially identified specimens
	Very Rare Kapundaite just found at Emmons Quarry. Al U. Falster, MP2 Group, and MMGM Lab analyzed and id'ed. I just found this specimen in material I am going through. Sorry for poor image but it is deep in a tiny vug. You can see the the yellow straw like mineral. Photo by Lloyd W. Alexander
	Crawford, James John (1894), Twelfth report of the State Mineralogist: California Mining Bureau. (Report 12): 12: 92. (USGS MRDS file note: This reference makes no sense. It was referred to in the Clark and Lydon (1962) report, but the page listed is for Butte County and no properties with this name are in the Calaveras County section of this report.)
	Very Rare Kapundaite just found at Emmons Quarry. Al U. Falster, MP2 Group, and MMGM Lab analyzed and id'ed. I just found this specimen in material I am going through. Sorry for poor image but it is deep in a tiny vug. You can see the the yellow straw like mineral. Photo by Lloyd W. Alexander. 1st occurrence in USA. 4th in World.
	(Numerous photographed specimens in foreign collections, but it is doubtful that these really came from the Socavón/Salvadora mine
	This material has later been used to describe the new and related mineral Wayneburnhamite. It is uncertain if Ganomalite occurs at the locality.
	KERR, R. A. (1985) Unexpected Young Fault Found in Oklahoma: Geologists had thought that the Meers fault was long dead, but they now see that it recently slipped and could produce another large earthquake. Science, 227 (4691). 1187-1188 doi:10.1126/science.227.4691.1187

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