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Klein Spitzkoppe, Spitzkoppe area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a botryoidal cast formation of pale yellow barytocalcite. The crystals formed a thin cast over other rock that is no longer present. The barytocalcite developed...
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Klein Spitzkoppe, Spitzkoppe area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a crystal formed following the Japanese law twin habit. These are from a very recent find which I was fortunate enough to acquire a few...
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Klein Spitzkoppe, Spitzkoppe area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a crystal formed following the Japanese law twin habit. These are from a very recent find which I was fortunate enough to acquire a few...
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Kolwezi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
The specimen is a deep wedge, with a flat vertical side and a flat shaping side. The calcite has a rich magenta colour in crystals forming an aggregate...
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Yanga Koubenza quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Rep of the Congo
The shallow specimen has mimetite and phillipsbornite on a residual heavy iron rich matrix, the matrix has been sawn. The upper layer of the deposit has bright cadmium...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The specimen has massive azurite grown out into crystalline finishes, both small crystals and a larger part crystal forms. The azurite crystal section presents little prismatic crysta;s as...
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Palabanda quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
The specimen is a small section of blue hemimorphite with a minimal matrix embedded. The small specimen has some beautifully formed shallow balls of hemimorphite in a pseudo...
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Bergsig Farm 167, Omaruru Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
These specimens come from the early 2014 Erongo find and are noted for their unusual blue color, odd barrel form, as well as being tapered. These are very...
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Klein Spitzkoppe, Spitzkoppe area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a crystal formed following the Japanese law twin habit. These are from a very recent find which I was fortunate enough to acquire a few...
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has a solid build up of pearlescent green brucite carrying some minor manganite on the matrix. The brucite formed a reniform mass of pearlescent pale blue...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is made up of hematite and andradite garnet deposited onto a host rock matrix. The hematite crystals are small with a high mirror like luster and...
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Erongo Mnt Region, Namibia
The specimen is a doubly terminated crystal of beryl var. aquamarine. The crystal has a second small stubby aquamarine crystal penetrating. The crystal is a floater too.
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The Fluorite has a cubic fluorite crystal attached to some fluorite 'rough'. This is a good example of an alternative complex surface form compared with a simple cubic...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The specimen has the less common association of smithsonite with wulfenite. The specimen has smithsonite on wulfenite on goethite. On the underside there is a hollow into the...
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Klein Spitzkoppe, Spitzkoppe area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a crystal formed following the Japanese law twin habit. These are from a very recent find which I was fortunate enough to acquire a few...
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Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
The specimen has two radially spraying growths of tabular baryte crystals that have penetrated one another in their growth spread. Both sets of crystals have inclusions of green...
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Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
The specimen has a cuprite crystal covered with a globular deposit of malachite over the emphatic geometric form of the cuprite crystal. The dodecohedral crystal reveals some calcite...
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Palabanda quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
The specimen is a small section of blue hemimorphite with a minimal matrix. The small specimen has some beautifully formed tabular balls of hemimorphite in a pseudo botryoidal...
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen of kutnohorite is a cone shaped bunch of small narrow long crystals formed into a voulenous bunch. Long narrow crystals have fanned . The fine nature...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The thumbnail specimen has two shallow flat tabular crystal clusters of sturmanite connected by a twist of grainy matrix.The sturmanite has flat hexagonal bi-pyramidal discs and with bevelled...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen has quartz on two generation of fluorite. The fluorite has equal sized crystals of blue material on a simple crystalline sub-structure of non colour clear with...
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Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
The specimen has malachite and a limonitic clay on and included in baryte. The baryte is a twinned tabular crystal with simple bevelled edges up to the vertical...
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Novello Mine, Masvingo District, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
A small doubly terminated bi-pyramidal hexagonal crystal of chrysoberyl. The crystal geometry is incomplete where there is a contact point. The specimen does change colour too.
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