Image Credit: Bruce Cairncross
Specimen Title
Alamosite (w. melanotekite)
Associated Minerals
melanotekite
Principal Mineral
Size
Miniature; 35mm
Location in the Mine
Second oxidation zone
Provenance
Balayer, P.
Collection
Cairncross, B.; A703
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB389
Description
A radiating spray of colorless-white bundles of needle-like alamosite crystals, sparsely spotted with sub-mm spherules of greenish-black melanotekite.
The level number from which the specimen was collected is not recorded, but it is similar in habit and association to a specimen figured by Keller (1984) which was attributed to 28 Level.
