The SA Mineral Shop specimen record
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Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
The specimen is a little ball of shattuckite with the outer surface finished in tiny little botryoids. Each little botryoid is an acicular ball with the tiny needles...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
One is looking at a carlsbad twin of orthoclase with schorl needles attached as well as fluorite. One purple cube of fluorite is wrapped around a long schorl...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The specimen has euhedral emerald green dioptase with blocky pistachio green duftite on calcite. The rich true Tsumeb green for dioptase is very evident in this specimen.
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen is made up of simple cubic crystals of fluorite which are intergrown to form this cluster. The fluorite have a lovely luster and good clarity which...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is made up of a cluster of small smoky quartz crystals in an elongated growth deposited onto a schorl crystal. The smoky quartz are lustrous and...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen is made up of intergrown cubic crystals of fluorite which have formed a half rounded cluster that is self standing at the base which is also...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen is with a few inter grown crystals of fluorite in a simple cubic habit. The fluorite crystals are included by multiple phantom as well as zones...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen is made up of inter grown crystals of fluorite with a cubic habit and interesting modified corner terminations. The specimen has a great luster with the...
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N'Chwaning III Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
From the finds in 2010/2011 this is a cute lime green thumbnail crystal. Very rare material. Despujolsite from the N'Chwaning mines are the best examples known, a rare...
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N'Chwaning III Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
From the finds in 2010/2011 this is a cute lime green thumbnail crystal. Very rare material. Despujolsite from the N'Chwaning mines are the best examples known, a rare...
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Kandesei, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
The specimen is from finds in 2012 and is made up of a shattuckite cast which has formed a shallow recess on a matrix The shattuckite has a...
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N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The specimen is a cute small thumbnail made up of small rhodochrosite crystals on a host matrix from finds in 2006 by Paul Balayer. The rhodochrosite have slightly...
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Orange River Area, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has a display oriented arrangement of amethyst quartz crystals. A couple slightly longer crystals form the display focus, and a small twin catches the eye. The...
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Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
The specimen is a small crystal of quarty with ajoite inclusions. There is ajoite within the quartz as well as a cloud of kaolin. There is a little...
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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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Tses Baryte Prospect, Brukkaros Complex, Berseba Townlands Farm 426, Berseba Constituency, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
A prismatic baryte crystal with a multifaceted pyramidal termination. The crystal has a honey colour and there are some minor thin dark red oxide crusts external that are...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Lustrous, transparent rhombic crystals of cobaltoan smithsonite form a covering over a balled mass of primary ore (massive sulphides), which includes smaller, almost cubic crystals of ferroan/manganiferous smithsonite....
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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.
Manganvesuvianite is a type locality species, this specimen is an intergrown cluster of prismatic hexagonal crystals. The colour is dark maroon red where the light shines through the...
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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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