Strengite with Kidwellite, etc.

Item Description

A great piece of the very hard to find phosphate specimens from the Three Oaks Gap locality in Arkansas. This piece features attractive purplish colored "sprays" of Strengite associated with olive green, velvety, radiating Kidwellite groups along with yellow Cacoxenite and underlain brown and Dufrenite. One of the labels states that there is Beraunite on the piece, and originally, the brown phosphate species from this locality was always labeled as Beraunite, but it turns out that nobody can find a confirmed piece of Beraunite from Three Oaks Gap, so the species is most likely Dufrenite. A wonderful and fine quality example of this wonderful old material that was mined in 1980s. A must have for any fan of worldwide phosphates ore minerals from Arkansas. We have photographed the piece with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to illustrate the quality. It's pretty cool to have a piece featuring Kidwell specifically from the collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974 ( https://www.mindat.org/photo-326405.html ). There is an additional label accompanying the piece that states it was at one time in the Eaton Collection as well.