Description
Englishite, named for famous US mineral dealer George English, is a very rare hydrated phosphate. On this specimen from Ronneburg, Thuringia, Germany, it forms beige seams and crusts on matrix. It is associated with beautiful lustrous, grass green spherical Wavellite clusters to 3 mm in diameter, which in turn sit on spherical, rather light poison-green Variscite. Although Englishite is not listed on Mindat for that locality, I think this piece is actually from Ronneburg. The matrix is pretty much a giveaway. The association of the three phosphate minerals is known from the Little Green Monster Mine, but the matrix is significantly different.