Crandallite, Phosphosiderite

Item number: MINS6071

Price: EUR 39.00 

Nodule of intensely pink phosphosiderite with crandallite. Botryoidal, kidney-like and spherulitic aggregates of cryptocrystalline phosphosiderite forms the nodule. “Veins” of yellowish-brown, earthy crandallite are embedded in deep furrows around subspherical aggregates. 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.

Format 35 (the sample fits or fills up the box of 55x51x25 mm. Sample might be little higher)
Size 58x54x46 mm
Weight 144 g
Locality Paton Hill, Paton Brook, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Reg., Chile