Detailed information
Species
Woodhouseite
Dimensions
42 x 55 x 30
mm
Weight
70 g
Locality
Champion Mine White Mountain Peak, Mono County California, USA
Condition
No recorded repairs
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.