Image Credit: Sharon Cisneros
Specimen Title
Willemite
Principal Mineral
Size
Miniature; 32mm
Location in the Mine
Undetermined
Collection
Cisneros, S. & E.
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB953
Description
A trilobed botryoidal aggregate of willemite, completely overgrown by a carpet of free-standing, lustrous and colourless, prismatic crystals of willemite growing normal to the botryoid surfaces. The specimen is matrix-free and displays a bright pale yellow fluorescence under short wavelength ultraviolet radiation.
The specimen is in the collection of Sharon and Eugene Cisneros.
