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How a trochus shell empire came crashing down. Long-time Mackay resident Warren Hill has told how his discovery of a 'Pandora's Box' of trochus shells landed him in hot water with the wrong people.
The trochus or top shell is a marine rhipidoglossate mollusk with a multispiral operculum. Its shell is a simple cone and snail-wise it carries it on its back as it moves slowly along in shallow ...
IN vol. 4, pt. 1 of the Report of the Great Barrier Reef Committee (Brisbane: Government Printer), Mr. F. W. Moorhouse deals with products of economic importance-green turtle, Trochus and sponges.
Plastic buttons have seriously hurt the trochus shell market, but there's still some demand from the Chinese, who transform them into buttons to use at the exclusive end of the fashion industry.
One Arm Point on the Dampier Peninsula, in northern Western Australia, has upped its harvest of trochus shell this year, after an increased demand from overseas markets.
When he was 15, an older brother who worked as a diver collecting trochus – a sea snail whose shell yields valuable mother-of-pearl – wanted to take him away to sea. “Sure,” their father said.
Researchers from the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies are drawing new biomimicry inspiration for armor and defense from the unique shell structure of a deep-sea snail.
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