Variscite, Wardite, Crandallite & Gordonite, Little Green Monster Mine, Clay Canyon, Utah

One of the very few slabbed and polished species that serious mineral collectors will acquire are variscite nodules from the Little Green Monster Mine, Clay Canyon, Utah. This locality has yielded some very colourful and rare phosphate species, mostly from the early 1900s and 1930s. The combinations of green (variscite) with yellow/brown (crandallite) are quite attractive. Pieces like this one sometimes also show blue-lavender, which is wardite. Most of these minerals are massive (no crystals) but sometimes, very rarely, small cavities within the nodules will reveal tiny treasures. In this case, part of the crandallite rind has peeled off showing sheathes of small elongated, bluish gordonite crystals! Clay Canyon is the type locality for both wardite and gordonite. This is a rare opportunity to not only acquire an attractive variscite, but with one with several other rare phosphates. I was fortunate to find this in an older collection and am quite honoured to be offering it. Ex Bill Rouslin collection. From: Little Green Monster Mine, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah. Dimesions: 8 cm x 7 cm x 2.5 cm