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Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mts, Sevier Co., Tennessee, USA

Coskrenite-(Ce)
Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mts, Sevier Co., Tennessee, USA

Photo: JBS 2006
Weathering pyritiferous phyllites form water-soluble oxalates and sulphates protected by an overhang. Collecting at the locality (within a National Park) is not freely allowed. Unauthorized collecting may result in Federal prosecution.

Mineral List

'Allanite'
Almandine
Aluminite
Alum-(K)
Alunogen
Ammoniojarosite
'Apatite'
Apjohnite
Botryogen
Calcite
Copiapite
 Coskrenite-(Ce) (TL)
Destinezite (TL)
Epsomite
Felsőbányaite
'Garnet'
Goethite
Gypsum
Halotrichite
Hexahydrite
Hydromagnesite
Jarosite
 Jurbanite
Levinsonite-(Y) (TL)
Magnesiocopiapite
'Manganese Oxides'
Melanterite
'Monazite'
Nitrocalcite ?
Pickeringite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Rozenite
 Rutile
Schwertmannite
Slavíkite
Spessartine
Starkeyite
Sulphur
Tschermigite
'Xenotime'
Zircon
Zugshunstite-(Ce) (TL)


43 entries listed. 37 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals).

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References

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 528l.

Flohr, M.J.K., Dillenburg, R.G., and Plumlee, G.S. (1995): Characterization of secondary minerals formed as the result of weathering of the Anakeesta Formation, Alum Cave, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee: USGS Open File Report #95-477, 24 p.

Canadian Mineralogist (1999): 37: 1453-1462.

American Mineralogist (2000): 85: 1561.

Coskren, T. D. & Lauf, R. J. (2000): The Minerals of Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. Mineralogical Record: 31: 163-175.

Rouse, R. C., Peacor, D. R., Essene, E. J., Coskren, T. D. & Lauf R.J. (2001), The new minerals levinsonite-(Y) [(Y,Nd,Ce)Al(SO4)2(C2O4)12H2O] and zugshunstite-(Ce) [(Ce,Nd,La,)Al(SO4)2(C2O4)12H2O]: coexisting oxalates with different structures and differentiation of LREE and HREE. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: 65,: 1101-1115.

Hammarstrom, Jane M. Seal II, Robert R. Meier, Allen L. and Jackson, John C. (2003), Weathering of Sulfidic Shale and Copper Mine Waste: Secondary Minerals and Metal Cycling in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, and North Carolina, USA, USGS Staff -- Published Research. Paper 339: 47.

Bernard, Jan H. and Jaroslav Hyrsl (2004), Minerals and their Localities: 480.

Rocks & Minerals (2007): 82: 235.

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