calcite

TSNB400

Specimen

Exhibit 1. Calcite; 290 mm.
Exhibit 1. Calcite; 290 mm.
Image Credit: Jeff Scovil
Exhibit 2. Calcite; 290 mm.
Exhibit 2. Calcite; 290 mm.
Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Exhibit 3. Calcite; 290 mm.
Exhibit 3. Calcite; 290 mm.
Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
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Title

calcite

Principal Mineral

Calcite

Size

Cabinet; 290mm

Collection

Geoscience Australia R28045

Provenance

Latz, C.V.

Entry Type

Specimen TSNB400

Description

A large aggregate of stepped rhombohedral crystals, mainly colourless, but with some crystals tinged reddish-brown by included iron oxides, presumably hematite (?).

The specimen was purchased in Namibia by Australian collector Clement Victor Latz in the early 1970s. The Latz Collection was donated to the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) in 1976.

Associated Minerals

hematite (?)