Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Specimen Title
Aragonite
Associated Minerals
goethite (?); hematite (?)
Principal Mineral
Size
Cabinet; 96mm
Location in the Mine
Undetermined
Provenance
Latz, C.V.
Collection
Geoscience Australia; R28040
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB880
Description
Free-standing, elongated trillings of aragonite (to 25 mm) both as individual crystals and intergrown groups, on a ferruginous and cavernous matrix. The habit of the crystals is consistent with the Pb-bearing tarnowitzite variety of aragonite, although the specimen has not been analysed.
The specimen was number 157 in the collection of Clement Victor Latz, which was donated to the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) in 1976. There is no record of earlier provenance or location in the mine.
