The SA Mineral Shop specimen record
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
This is a cute miniature sized specimen made up of interlocking cubic crystals of fluorite on a host matrix with some small white quartz crystals on the fluorite....
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Gobobosebberge Mnt, Erongo, Namibia
A single lustrous quartz crystal with light amethyst and smoky phantoms included in the quartz sceptre crystal. There is a single moving gas bubble/enhydro included in close to...
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N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is made up of a deposit of khaki coloured gageite on a bed of rhodochrosite on matrix. The gageite is more concentrated on upper portion of...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
From older finds at the Okoruso Mine, the specimen is made up of interlocking cubic crystals of fluorite which reach up to 1.9cm. The surface is very lightly...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
I have always been very fond of this pocket from March 2003 at the N'Chwaning II Mine. There is a deposit of fine grained lemon yellow ettringite drusy...
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The specimen is made up of a deposit of cobalt bearing calcite crystal on a host matrix of malachite with kolwezite. The main cobaltoan calcite measures 2.4cm with...
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Steinkopf, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is a beautifully formed plate of smoky quartz. The beauty in the specimen includes a clean cool brown grey colour presence and clean lustre. Rather special...
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Steinkopf, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is a beautifully proportioned crystal of brown grey coloured smoky quartz. The termination planes are beautifully proportioned. Around the back and into the base of the...
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N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has a free formed mass of kutnohorite crystals made up of elongate columns of stacked crystal growth, growing in narrow parallel and sub-parallel clusters. At their...
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Erongo Mnt Region, Namibia
A single thumbnail crystal of beryl var. aquamarine. The crystal has an opaque light blue colour in the base zone, with the termination zone made up of clear...
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The specimen has a single crystal of red quartz protruding through a 2nd generation of grey coloured quartz. The crystal is red from inclusions of red hematite which...
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From the finds in 2010/2011 this is a cute lime green micromount with good form. Very rare material. Size: 0.7 x 0.5 x 0.4cm Locality: N'Chwaning III Mine,...
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A brightly coloured green Fluorite specimen with good-sized octohedron crystals, the largest is 56mm on edge. The Fluorite crystals are intergrown with one another with the largest crystal...
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A lovely specimen with pseudo-hexagonal crystals, the piece is richly deposited with red-pink individual and intergrown crystals of Ephesite which is a rare lithium sodium aluminum silicate. There...
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From recent finds in Mulungwishi, I bought this a couple of weeks back. The specimen is made up of a deposit of fine acicular-like crystals of Aragonite which...
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Kaokoveld Area, Namibia
Lovely lustrous crystals of Dioptase with good colour deposited sporadically over a Quartz matrix with a very fine thin deposit of somewhat green Plancheite. This specimen comes from...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Mercury is extremely rare from the Kalahari Manganese Field. During the late 1990s a few specimens were found. This is one of those specimens that are exceedingly hard...
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N'Chwaning I, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
This specimen comes from a find in 2014 that produced a small amount of these lovely pink Kutnohorite clusters, not the typical fan-like sprays. There is a deposit...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
This specimen is rather appealing and also unusual. There are 2 generations of Calcite present, the first generation is made of of clear to white rhombic crystals of...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
This specimen is made up of a deposit of Sturmanite discs that are slightly fatter and much more saturated in colour compared to the March 2005 find. These...
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Okoruso Mine, Namibia
This specimen is made up of multiple Fluorite crystals in a cubic form a mound. The Fluorite measures up to 14mm and has a lovely lustre and clarity....
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Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
The specimen consists of an intergrown cluster of Azurite crystals in the form of a floater with some Limonitic and Duftitic matrix residue. This is a rather special...
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Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
The specimen is a treat, consisting of a clustered mass of small clusters of Calcite crystals with untarnished Native Copper inclusions. Here and there the Copper extends beyond...
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A small aggregate spread of Cobaltoan Smithsonite on the surface of Galena matrix. Some crystals have richer color than others. There is no crystal with a prominent stand-out...
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