lavendulan

TSNB462

Specimen

Exhibit 1. Lavendulan; 25 mm.
Exhibit 1. Lavendulan; 25 mm.
Image Credit: John Schneider
Exhibit 2. Specimen label (Bill Pinch).
Exhibit 2. Specimen label (Bill Pinch).
Image Credit: John Schneider
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Title

lavendulan

Principal Mineral

Lavendulan

Size

Thumbnail; 26mm

Location in the Mine

Second oxidation zone; 36 Level

Collection

MGMH 2022.7.679

Provenance

Pinch, W.W.

Entry Type

Specimen TSNB462

Description

A shard of silified dolostone (?) hosts platy crystals of electric-blue lavendulan and poorly developed crusts of an undetermined green mineral. Both sides of the specimen are similarly mineralised.

The specimen is from the collection of Bill Pinch, whose label (Exhibit 2) indicates that the lavendulan (presumably) has been verified by X-ray analysis and that it originated from 36 Level in the second oxidation zone; unfortunately the label provides no information on provenance.

Associated Minerals

quartz