Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California
Miniature - 5.1 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm
40 grams
Specimen status: Available
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Abundant, light brown and opaque
woodhouseite crystals to about 3 mm on a massive
woodhouseite (?) matrix. A cluster of quartz points sits
on one edge of a woodhouseite containing pocket.
Woodhouseite is a globally uncommon calcium aluminum
phosphate sulfate - CaAl3 (PO 4 )(SO 4 )(OH 6 )
- for which the Champion Mine
is the type locality.
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