Boggsite, Tschernichite, Smectite Group
Neer Road, Goble, Columbia County, Oregon, USA
White, 1 mm, hemisphere of boggsite with small crystals of the surface along with a black smectite hemisphere, surrounded by colorless drusy tschernichite from the silica-rich cavities of the Neer Road Pit, Neer Road, Goble, Oregon. This is typical of most of the boggsite found at the site. Collected by Rudy Tschernich in 1987. Specimen is in the ...
© Rudy W. Tschernich