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Crandallite, PhosphosideriteItem number: MIN0448
Format: 24 (the sample fits or fills up the box of 65x65x25 mm. Sample might be higher than 25 mm)
Size: 72x65x47 mm
Weight: 200 g
Locality: Paton Hill, Paton Brook, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Reg., Chile
Nodule of intensely pink phosphosiderite with crandallite. Botryoidal, kidney-like and spherulitic aggregates of cryptocrystalline phosphosiderite forms the nodule. “Veins” of yellowish-white, earthy crandallite are embedded in deep furrows around subspherical aggregates or form fine coatings on their surface. As a result of the arid climate in the Atacama Desert, dehydration of crandallite occurs. The intensely yellow crandallite fades to white. Most of the back of this specimen is covered with 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.
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