Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Specimen Title
Aragonite (w. conichalcite-duftite)
Associated Minerals
conichalcite (?); duftite (?)
Principal Mineral
Size
Cabinet; 134mm
Location in the Mine
Undetermined
Provenance
Latz, C.V.
Collection
Geoscience Australia; R28202
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB916
Description
A very dense, gossanous matrix encrusted with moss-green microbotryoidal conichalcite-duftite and elongated, tapering crystals of colourless-white aragonite (to 18 mm).
This was specimen 917 in the collection of Clement Victor Latz, 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.
