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)
Properties of minerals 