The SA Mineral Shop specimen record
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is a thumbnail single crystal of sturmanite with twinning crystals penetrating both flat sides. The tabular crystal is hexagonal with bevelled edges tapering towards a balded...
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Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a stubby crystal of green tourmaline (tourmaline var. elbaite). The crystal has its root intact despite the specimen being short. One is looking at a...
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Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
The specimen has a flat thin base knitted together by the roots of baryte crystals making up the formation. The formation has numerous tabular crystals of baryte crowded...
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Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
The specimen has an extended doubly terminated prismatic crystal of yellow baryte with some very small corroded quartz mixed with tiny marcasite/pyrite and some copper sulfides.
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The thumbnail specimen has a crystal of calcite perched on a fragment of matrix with malachite. The matrix has tiny rhombic calcite covering the surface. Malachite is present...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The specimen is a complex scalenohedral twinned crystals of calcite. The calcite is relatively clear with translucent areas. The surfaces are multifaceted part of the twinning detail. Basically...
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Kolwezi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
The specimen has small stacked crystal forms made up out of very shallow tabular rhombic crystals stacked one on top of another, like a small pile of crumpets....
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Kolwezi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
The specimen has crystals of cobaltoan calcite on a calcitic matrix. Modified rhombic crystals of calcite have a deep magenta value very closely mimic the frosted surface luster...
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Yanga Koubenza quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Rep of the Congo
The specimen has cerussite on malachite and azurite on a lamellar limonitic silted matrix pierced with veins of azurite. The azurite has very fine crystals. The malachite has...
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Palabanda quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
The specimen has a thin 2mm deposit of blue-turquoise hemimorphite on a compacted clay like matrix which has been sawn on the under side. The hemimorphite is translucent...
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Palabanda quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
The specimen has a narrow lateral spread formation or point formation grown over with trees of hemimorphite crystals. The rounded tree formations are the result of full circle...
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Yanga Koubenza quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Rep of the Congo
The specimen consists of a 3mm to 7mm layer of smithsonite on a country rock matrix. The smithsonite formed an edge to edge crystallized surface in a shallow...
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Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
The specimen has malachite included baryte deposited onto a thin cast like matrix of malachite. The baryte has thin elongate tabular crystals standing on end in a compact...
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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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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
A fine specimen here of aquamarine with remnants of schorl attached. There is a main single crystal which measures 3.8cm tall and with a thin and tabular 1.3cm...
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Mashamba West Mine, Sicomines copper-cobalt project, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo
The specimen here is made up of a deposit of intergrown crystals of cuprite octohedrals. The cuprite have a silvery luster and glow cherry red when backlit. The...
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N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The specimen was part of a larger cluster of rhodochrosite which it has come apart from. The rhodochrosite is in thin blade form which have made botryoidal masses....
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Van der Plas Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
A fine specimen here made up of dioptase deposited on quartz. The dioptase are in a very nice almost electric green colour with thin crystals to 1cm laying...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is spinel law twin crystals of fluorite which are intergrown with one another. The crystals have a violet colour in zones towards the outer surfaces more...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is an example of bultfonteinite after hydroxyapophyllite with calcite. The pseudomorph is in a cubic form with bevelled corners in a slightly pink bultfonitenite. The prominent...
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen of kutnohorite is a flat bunch of small narrow long crystals formed into thin planar cluster. Long narrow crystals have fanned all more or less in...
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Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
A single quartz crystal which has healed on one side and with inclusions of ajoite, epidote and hematite. The quartz crystal is a floater with the healed side...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
A small single crystal of pale yellow gemmy thaumasite. The crystal to 1.2cm which is relatively big for the species, most crystals are inclined towards short and stubby...
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
From a find in 2005 this is a cute thumbnail specimen of this rare columnar hematite with a mirror like lustre and attached by minor crusts of andradite...
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