Wendwilsonite

Availability

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Size

0.80 x 0.6 x 0.4 cm - Thumbnail 

Formula

Ca₂Mg(AsO₄)₂·2H₂O (RRUFF)

Locality

Aghbar mine, Bou Azzer dist., Morocco

Tagged

arsenate

Excellent rose-colored tabular crystals to 0.5mm.

Wendell Wilson is editor and publisher of the prestigious Mineralogical Record. He is one of the best mineralogist of our time. Wendell is almost super human with a wide range of mineralogical interest and has achieved expert status in the many facets of the science including: meteroite mineralogy, isotope geochemistry, and Lunar petrology and mineralogy.  His PhD is from the University of Minnesota. Wendell spent a summer in Washington, DC working at the Smithsonian Institution under Brian Mason. He attended ASU in Tucson and pioneered the great finds of the time including the Apache, Rowley, Ray, Old Yuma, Harquahala, Silver Bill, Silver Hill, Defiance, Mystery Tunnel, Inspiration, Magma, Red Cloud, Camp Verde, Florence, Grand Reef and 79 mine. Not too many mineral collectors has achieved what Dr. Wilson has, so 2001 he was awarded Carnegie Mineralogical Award. Oh, one more talent, he is an incredible mineral artist. 

Too read more on Wendell see the Mineralogical Record label archive and the Russian journal "Mineral Observer" volume 21, issue 3, 2016.

Wendwilsonite is found in only nine localities worldwide, which includes many famous localities including the Sterling mine, Schneeberg, Saxony and Torrecillas mine, Chile and of course this locality Bou Azzer. When you have a mineral named after yourself, you might as well have one found at all the great localities! 

You can read the original paper on Wendwilsonite in the American Mineraolgist by click this link.

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