WGNHS
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey

Gorceixite

Orange gorceixite mass with white to pale yellow kaolin in quartz. Field of view is about 1 cm across. From the Beauvoir Quarry, Allier, Auvergne, France. (Photo by W. Cordua.)

Formula: BaAl3(PO4)2(OH)5.H2O   Monoclinic

Description:

Gorceixite is a very rare member of the cradallite group.

MARATHON COUNTY : Gorceixite was found as tiny grains intergrown with sulfides in a greisen zone in the Magurie Pit, part of the LaDick East quarry complex east of Wausau. (Buchholz et al., 2005a)