“stalagmitic calcite"fingers" up to 80 mm - cores and matrix are snow-white, sugar-like calcite whilst the outer surface is completely made of minute brownish calcite needles (see child photo)
both dilute HCl- and Meigen-tests clearly demonstrate this specimen to be built completely from calcite - NOT gypsum or aragonite
beige fluorescence with UV/LW (Convoy source)
collection Raymond Dedeyne (RCD0663 - 04/2002), ex Jan Andries
photo and copyright Theo Muller”
Raymond Dedeyne - 5th November 2019