Phosphosiderite, Crandallite

Item number: MINS6517

Price: EUR 49.00 

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.

Format 25 (the sample fits or fills up the box of 65x65x25 mm. Sample might be little higher)
Size 77x45x37 mm
Weight 121 g
Locality Paton Hill, Paton Brook, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Reg., Chile