Woodhouseite

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Tucson, Arizona, USA

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Woodhouseite is a rare calcium-aluminium phosphate sulphate hydroxide and is a member of the Beudantite Group. This miniature displays several well developed, pseudo-cubic, buttery pale yellow Woodhouseite crystals from its type locality at Champion mine at White Mountain Peak in Mono County, California, USA. The Champion mine extracted Andalusite hosted in quartzite; Woodhouseite being a secondary mineral, often a product of wall rock alteration. This mineral is named for Charles Douglas Woodhouse (1888-1975) who discovered it at the Champion mine as he was a mineral collector in addition to a mineralogist and professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara.