A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Auriferous conglomerate |
|---|---|
| Description | This sample is 12 cm wide. It is a conglomerate containing large quartz pebbles in a fine grained matrix of quartz, feldspar and mica. Fine gold is disseminated in the matrix, but the small flakes are very difficult to see without a microscope. |
| Location | Africa. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-27. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #3650. |
| Key words | auriferous Conglomerate, Africa |
| Tech details | 871 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 907 |
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