Mineral Species
Baileychlore
Type Locality
No
Composition
(Zn,Fe2+,Al,Mg)6(Si,Al)4O10(OH)8
Crystal System
Triclinic
Status at Tsumeb
Believed valid
Abundance
Extremely rare
Distribution
Second oxidation zone
Paragenesis
Supergene
Entry Number
Species; TSNB39
General Notes
Baileychlore was first noted at Tsumeb by Blass et al. (2009) as flaky crystals and pimpled aggregates on, and in the interstices between, quartz crystals on a matrix of oxidising galena, with greenockite and smithsonite.
Although considered an extremely rare mineral at Tsumeb, baileychlore would be very easily overlooked.
Associated Minerals
galena; greenockite; quartz; smithsonite
