[Rockhounds] Wow! Willemite in a Septarian nodule

Kitty & Bill Heacox kahako at hawaiiantel.net
Mon May 19 17:10:48 PDT 2008


Note that the description also says "Willemite Calcite Crystal (the 
Yellow Centers) as if willemite were an adjective describing calcite, or 
a type of calcite.

Aloha, Kitty

pmodreski at aol.com wrote:
> This is amusing.
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> In fact, I have seen this same paragraph, or most of it, repeated on some printed labels that we, at the USGS in Denver, had received along with a pile of leftover "heel" pieces of sawn septarians that had once been donated to us by a rock shop, for giveaways to teachers.  I had not noticed the reference to "willemite" in it, though; perhaps our version did not include that.
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