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Woodhouseite (Ex Van Tichelen Collection)
- Champion Mine, Mountain Peak, White Mts, Mono County, California (Type Locality)
- Cabinet, 10.1 x 5.5 x 2.1 cm
- Start Time: 04/09/2015 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 04/16/2015 6:49:04 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
This is a wonderful cabinet display specimen of the famous specimens of Woodhouseite from the type locality, the Champion Mine. The piece is filled with very sharp, lustrous, well-formed striated trigonal crystals of pale yellow Woodhouseite on Quartz matrix. The largest Woodhouseite measures about 3 mm (one is close to 4 mm), and the quality is superb. This rare phosphate is named after Charles Douglas Woodhouse (1888-1975), American Mineralogist and mineral collector, University of California, Santa Barbara. This piece is from the collection of Wouter Van Tichelen. Conservatively valued at $800 for rarity, specimen size and quality