Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Englishite Crandallite & Variscite

Views:
Watches:
ATM1098111

Englishite Crandallite & Variscite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Little Green Monster Mine, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 5 × 3.8 cm
Description

Mixture of Phosphate species in small (3.0 x 1.7) area of matrix.

Yellow Crandallite as vein infill and Botryoidal balls.  Englishite in Pearly White crystal forms.

Variscite as vein infill and what I believe are abundant Wardite crystals with glass like windows to the terminations?

Great under Scope with a lot going on.

Ex Dr. Trevor Devon collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Englishite

Formula: 
K3Na2Ca10Al15(PO4)21(OH)7·26H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

Crandallite

Formula: 
CaAl3(PO4)2(OH)5·H2O
Strunz: 
8.BL.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brooklyn Mine, Silver City, Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA

Variscite

Formula: 
AlPO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Meßbach Quarry, Meßbach, Plauen, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps