Wavellite

<h2 id="discovery-and-occurrence">Discovery and occurrence</h2>

<p>Wavellite was first described in 1805 for an occurrence at High Down, Filleigh, <a href="/facts/Devon%2c_England/go3z9lDW">Devon, England</a> and named by William Babington in 1805 in honor of Dr. William Wavell (1750–1829),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> a Devon-based physician, botanist, historian, and naturalist, who brought the mineral to the attention of fellow mineralogists.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
</p><p>It occurs in association with <a href="/facts/Crandallite/E2JgoxJl">crandallite</a> and <a href="/facts/Variscite/VS37N23o">variscite</a> in fractures in <a href="/facts/Aluminium/7wmR8jYE">aluminous</a> <a href="/facts/Metamorphic_rock/JRp6dsCm">metamorphic rock</a>, in <a href="/facts/Hydrothermal/hqwwksSm">hydrothermal</a> regions and in phosphate rock deposits.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> It is found in a wide variety of locations, notably in the <a href="/facts/Mount_Ida%2c_Arkansas/AmhBMRwQ">Mount Ida, Arkansas</a> area in the <a href="/facts/Ouachita_Mountains/kWhY0hvr">Ouachita Mountains</a>.
</p><p>It is sometimes used as a gemstone.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_minerals/4rMMcv2D">List of minerals</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Apatite/f5tYvl1n">Apatite</a>, fluoro-phosphate of calcium</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Pyromorphite/fekLrnWQ">Pyromorphite</a>, chloro-phosphate of lead</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Turquoise/vCPfDGPq">Turquoise</a>, a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminium</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.barnstaplemuseum.org.uk/hundred-objects/wavellite/">"Wavellite at museum of Barnstaple and North Devon"</a>. Retrieved 9 May 2020.</li></ul>

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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wavellite" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 430. <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" target="_blank">/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Mindat <a href="http://www.mindat.org/min-4250.html" target="_blank">http://www.mindat.org/min-4250.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Green, David; Cotterell, Tom; Jones, I.; Cox, D.; Cleevely, R. (2007). "Wavellite: its discovery and occurrences in the British Isles". UK Journal of Mines and Minerals. 28: 11–30. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Mindat <a href="http://www.mindat.org/min-4250.html" target="_blank">http://www.mindat.org/min-4250.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wavellite" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 430. <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" target="_blank">/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Curtis, Samuel and Hooker, William Jackson (1827). Memoirs of the Life and Writing of the Late Mr. William Curtis, Curtis's Botanical Magazine; or Flower Garden Displayed, v. 1 (new series), v-xxxii. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Handbook of Mineralogy <a href="http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/wavellite.pdf" target="_blank">http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/wavellite.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Gemstones: Properties, identification and use by Arthur Thomas, p. 132. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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