{{Short description|Rare Mineral}} {{Infobox mineral | name = Rashleighite | boxwidth = | boxbgcolor = | image = Turquoise-61206.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | struct image = | struct caption = | struct imagesize = | struct2 image = | struct2 caption = | struct2 imagesize= | SMILES = | Jmol = | category = | formula = | molweight = | strunz = | dana = | system = | class = | symmetry = | unit cell = | color = | colour = | habit = | twinning = | cleavage = | fracture = | tenacity = | toughness = | mohs = | luster = | streak = | diaphaneity = | gravity = | density = | polish = | opticalprop = | refractive = | birefringence = | pleochroism = | 2V = | dispersion = | extinction = | length fast/slow = | fluorescence = | absorption = | melt = | Curie temp = | fusibility = | diagnostic = | solubility = | impurities = | alteration = | other = | prop1 = | prop1text = | references = | var1 = | var1text = | var2 = | var2text = | var3 = | var3text = | var4 = | var4text = | var5 = | var5text = | var6 = | var6text = }}
'''Rashleighite''', also called '''henwoodite''',<ref name="Rashleighite">{{cite web|url=http://www.mindat.org/min-3367.html|title=Rashleighite: Rashleighite mineral information and data.|publisher=Mindat.org|accessdate=29 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="Henwoodite">{{cite web|url=http://www.mindat.org/show.php?id=6481|title=Henwoodite: Henwoodite mineral information and data.|publisher=Mindat.org|accessdate=29 May 2010}}</ref> is a ferrian variety of turquoise. The names are in honour of the Cornish geologists Philip Rashleigh and William Jory Henwood.
==References== {{reflist}} {{Refbegin}} *Collins (1876) Mineralogical Magazine: 1: 11. *Fairbanks (1942) The Mineralogist, Portland, Oregon: 10: 44 (as ferri-turquois). *Foster (1876) Mineralogical Magazine: 1: 8. *Ross (1876) Chem. News, October 13th. *Ross (1876) Mineralogical Magazine: 1: 59. *Russell (1948) Mineralogical Magazine: 28: 353. *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. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 947, 951. {{Refend}}
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