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

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.

Ref.: - 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.

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

- American Mineralogist (2000): 85: 1561.

- http://www.uwm.edu/Course/geosci697-tectonic/GroupD/AlumCave/AlumCaveBluffs.html





Mineral List:
  		•  Aluminite
  		• Alum-(K)
  		• Alunogen
  		• Ammoniojarosite
  		• Apjohnite
  		• Botryogen
  		• Calcite
  		• Coskrenite-(Ce) (TL)
  		• Destinezite (TL)
  		• Epsomite
  		• Felsőbányaite
  		• Gypsum
  		• Halotrichite
  		• Hexahydrite ?
  		• Hydromagnesite
  		• Jurbanite ?
  		• Levinsonite-(Y) (TL)
  		• Magnesiocopiapite
  		• 'Manganese Oxides'
  		• Melanterite
  		• Nitrocalcite ?
  		• Pickeringite
  		• Rozenite
  		• Schwertmannite ?
  		• Slavíkite
  		• Starkeyite
  		• Sulphur
  		• Tschermigite
  		• Zugshunstite-(Ce) (TL)


    29 entries listed. 28 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals).

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