Crandallite from
Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

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Strontium-bearing Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Strontium-bearing Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Strontium-bearing Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Crandallite

Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Classification
Locality type:	Hill
Species:	Crandallite
Formula:	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆
Comments:	Associated with pyrite, gypsum and/or kaolinite
Habit:	rosettes up to 3.5cm consisting of prismatic crystals, small (hemi)spheres up to 2cm in concentric layers around a fibro-radial core, thin coatings, small rhombohedral crystals consisting of stacked lamellae on the surface of hemispheres around and between rosettes
Colour:	colourless, ochre yellow, yellowish-brown
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite	10
Gypsum	1
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Crandallite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium
Photo Gallery	View Gallery (48 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	70972
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:70972:1
GUID (UUID V4):	0
References
Van Tassel, R. (1956) Découverte de crandallite en Belgique. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 32(33), 1-11. Van Tassel, R. (1966) Minéraux secondaires phosphatés ferrifères (strunzite, beraunite, phosphosidérite, cacoxénite) de Blaton, Hainaut. Bulletin de la Société belge de Géologie, 75(1), 38-48. Israël, W. (1986) De fosfaatmineralen van Blaton (Henegouwen, België). Gea, 2(19), 51-56. Peacor, D.R., Dunn, P.J., Simmons, W.B., Ramik, R.A. (1987) Ferristrunzite, a new member of the strunzite group, from Blaton, Belgium. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte 1987, Heft 10, 453-457. users.skynet.be (2001) http://users.skynet.be/rik.dillen/festr.htm *Hatert, F., Deliens, M., Fransolet, A.-M., Van Der Meersche, E. (2002) Les minéraux de Belgique* (2nd ed.) Muséum des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. perso.infonie.be (2004) http://perso.infonie.be/jose.dehove/photos/Blaton.htm www.cmpb.net (2020) http://www.cmpb.net/en/blaton.php www.mineralogia.es (2020) https://www.mineralogia.es/index.php?level=picture&id=98903&searchterms=&searchauthor=Rafael%20Galiana www.strahlen.org (n.d.) https://www.strahlen.org/vp/be/blaton/blaton.php**

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Crandallite from Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium

Crandallite from
Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium