ROSASITE

Rosasite, a copper zinc carbonate hydroxide mineral, was reported from Franklin by Cook (1973) as tiny blue-green spherules on hemimorphite which, with goethite, line cavities in iron-oxide-stained calcite. It was found on the 200 level in the 740 pillar at Franklin; this is near the site of the azurite crystals studied by Palache (1928a, 1935). Several specimens at Harvard University were verified subsequently by [Dunn] employing X-ray and microprobe analytical procedures. Material intimately associated with hemimorphite has a Cu:Zn ratio of 65:35, and material free from such hemimorphite has a Cu:Zn ratio of 8:2. Rosasite was confirmed from Sterling Hill by Jenkins and Misiur (1994); they found it associated with malachite and aurichalcite from below the 700 level. (Dunn, 1995)

Location Found:

Franklin and Ogdensburg

Year Discovered:

1908

Formula:

(Cu,Zn)₂(CO₃)(OH)₂

Essential Elements:

Carbon, Copper, Hydrogen, Oxygen

All Elements in Formula:

Carbon, Copper, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Zinc

IMA Status:

Valid - first described prior to 1959 (pre-IMA) - "Grandfathered"

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References:

Dunn, Pete J. (1995). Franklin and Sterling Hill New Jersey: the world's most magnificent mineral deposits. Franklin, NJ.: The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society. p.624

Frondel, Clifford (1972). The minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, a checklist. NY.: John Willey & Sons. p.74

The Picking Table References

	PT Issue and Page	Description / Comment
View Issue	V. 35, No. 2 - Fall 1994, pg. 21	A Complex Base-Metal Assemblage From the Sterling Mine New Jersey - Rosasite
View Issue	V. 13, No. 1 - February 1972, pg. 9	Franklin Mineral Notes - Rosasite

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