Miserite & Straczekite (RARE - Type Locality for both) & Wollastonite

Item Description

Miserite is a rare complex Y-REE silicate and this obscure Arkansas pit is the Type Locality. Pretty lilac-colored, glassy, translucent lamellar masses of miserite cover much of the front of the blocky matrix of sprays of elongated lustrous and translucent whitish-gray wollastonite lathes. The scattered small black lathes on the piece are Straczekite, a rare complex vanadate oxide, for which the North Wilson pit is also the Type Locality. Some of the wollastonite fluoresces yellow-green. Ex Don Owens Collection. Don was the Chief Geologist at the old Union Carbide vanadium mine and we recently obtained his collection. His label is incorrect as the Three Oaks Gap prospect in Garland County does not contain any of the three species on this specimen, according to MINDAT.