Connoisseur's Choice: Aragonite Part 3: Southern Africa

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGMENTSDave Kershaw and Desmond Sacco loaned their specimens for photography, and Jeff Scovil is thanked for the use of his images. Terry Huizing and John Rakovan reviewed the manuscript and are thanked for their input; William Besse is thanked for preparing the map. Bruce Cairncross acknowledges that this work was partly funded by the NRF (National Research Foundation) and CIMERA (the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and therefore the NRF and DSI-NRF CIMERA do not accept liability in regard thereto.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce CairncrossDr. Bruce Cairncross, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals, is professor emeritus at the University of Johannesburg.Malcolm SouthwoodDr. Malcolm Southwood, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals, has collected minerals for forty years and has a special interest in minerals from southern Africa and the United Kingdom.