Kidwellite & Cacoxenite (rare phosphates) Owens Coll.

Item Description

Kidwellite and cacoxenite are rare to uncommon phosphates. Combination specimens of this richness and quality are very uncommon from this obscure small cut of a manganese prospect discovered in 1983 (MINDAT). The right side of the novaculite matrix is covered with green to very dark olive-green kidwellite spheroids with the left side richly sprinkled with starkly contrasting sprays of golden-yellow cacoxenite needles. Choice and rare material from the Don Owens Collection. A must for the species or locality collector. Ex Don Owens Collection. Don was the Chief Geologist at the old Union Carbide vanadium mine and we recently obtained his collection. valued $500