Crandallite, Phosphosiderite

Item number: MIN0434

Price: EUR 273.00 

Nodule of intensely pink phosphosiderite with yellow crandallite. Botryoidal, kidney-like and spherulitic aggregates of cryptocrystalline phosphosiderite which forms the nodule are coated by yellow earthy crandallite. With its bulbous microcrystalline structure the phosphosiderite from Atacama reminiscent of the Destinezite from the type locality Argenteau in Belgium or those classic materials from Hloubětín, part of Prag in Czech Republic. Specimen of extraordinary quality.

Size 100x80x95 mm
Weight 683 g
Locality Paton Hill, Paton Brook, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Reg., Chile