Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Specimen Title
malachite after copper (?)
Principal Mineral
Precursor Mineral (Uncertain)
Size
Cabinet; 70mm
Location in the Mine
First oxidation zone; 11 Level
Provenance
Klein, W.
Collection
MGMH; 105985
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB724
Description
A cavernous mass of malachite, comprising dendrites formed from sub-mm platy crystals of malachite and bundles of minute acicular malachite crystals. In one isolated part of the specimen (bottom right in Exhibit 1) velvety, botryoidal malachite has overgrown the dendrite.
This was specimen 215 in the collection of Wilhelm Klein, production manager at Tsumeb between 1916 and 1939. His catalogue records that it is from 11 Level in the first oxidation zone.
