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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
This is a single crystal of aquamarine from finds in the early 2000s. The crystals is a hexagonal prismatic crystal with a good luster and lovely blue colour...
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Klein Spitzkoppe, Spitzkoppe area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has a euhedral blocky prismatic crystal of white microcline with turquoise amazonite washed into the termination. The colour is clean and relatively free from standing with...
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Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
The specimen is made up of a single crystals of quartz with smaller quartz crystals attached on one end. The crystals are doubly terminated with good luster and...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The specimen has a well formed rounded pale blue cap of celestine on calcite as a host base. The celestine formation is developed from radiating aggregates of bladed...
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Bergsig Farm 167, Omaruru Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has an elongate core crystal trunk of schorl partly overgrown with small crystals of purple fluorite that are penetrated by tourmaline needles. The fluorite is inclined...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The specimen is a twinned hexagonal ettringite with some hematite and manganite present too. The ettringite has a lovely gemmy yellow value to it. These came out in...
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Bergsig Farm 167, Omaruru Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has aquamarine crystals on a small intricate cluster of feldspar. The elongate aquamarine crystals have a range of colours from true aquamarine blue, to pale aqua,...
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Bergsig Farm 167, Omaruru Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has an aquamarine cluster on a minor feldspar matrix material. The aquamarine crystals are elongate, with varied termination habits. The small piece has a spiky aesthetic...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a single frosted crystal of aquamarine. The prism termination has some thin bevels along two edges with the prism corner points bevelled with a partly...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has a growth of cuboctahedral crystals of fluorite over a matrix of feldspar. The fluorite has spread laterally across the matrix. The fluorite crystals are green...
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Bergsig Farm 167, Omaruru Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has an elongate crystal of foitite encased by a surround of purple fluorite and with its base end deposited of opal-AN dusted with goethite oxides. The...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The specimen has a deposit of classic drusy dioptase with calcite from Tsumeb. Small bright white pearlescent calcite hangs in there. These are small dioptase up to 3mm...
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Kandesei, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
The specimen has euhedral crystals of dioptase deposited on a shallow botryoidal epimorphic crust of shattuckite. The translucent dioptase is a little muted as the crystal surfaces are...
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Mashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
The specimen has a banded dolomite matric supporting octahedral crystals of cuprite with chrysocolla crusts.
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Tenke Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
The specimen has a development of a pseudobotryoidal mound of cobaltoan calcite covered and partly covered by tiny little stunted bushes of green velvety malachite. The magenta colour...
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
From early finds at the Wessels Mine, this specimen has a lovely twinned Hausmannite crystal which measures 8mm across with good lustre and deposited onto the matrix with...
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Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
The specimen has a cuprite crystal covered with a thin green jersey of malachite over the emphatic geometric form of the cuprite crystal.
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has aquamarine on a carlsbad twin feldspar crystal. The aquamarine are elongate crystals with a very pure transparency that is not common for Erongo aquamarine. The...
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Mashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
The specimen has four interconnected crystals of cuprite in a stepped structure of coboctahedral crystals. The largest of the cuprite crystals measure 1.2cm. The crystals are beautifully geometrix...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is with hematite included calcite with ettringite covering an extended mixed ore matrix. Under the microscope the ettringite are prolific gemmy hexagonal prismatic crystals. The sprays...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is an aquamarine crystal head with a natural shallow formed termination. The aquamarine termination has a shallow close to clear zone and then it shifts into...
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Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia
This is a rare thumbnail specimen of reniform opal-ct with a love colour and bubbly surface pattern. The colour is pairaba and black. From finds from more than...
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Gobobosebberge Mountains, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has snowy white apophyllite with white laumontite on a rounded crystal of prehnite. The apophyllite is 1.7cm long. These came out in 2012.
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Brandberg Complex, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has fluorite with quartz on a base of feldspar. The piece makes a unique miniature specimen with an eye catching profile. Elongate milky quartz crystal protrude...
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