The SA Mineral Shop specimen record
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is made up of intergrown botryoid of brucite with a green blue colour. The brucite has a lovely luster as well as being some what gemmy....
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is made up of intergrown hematite crystal with a naturally flat base which allows the specimen to stand on it's own. The hematite has a lovely...
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Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Musina Local Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
A good sized specimen here with multiple crystals of high lustre Quartz, some of them included by light coloured Ajoite and in association with Hematite and Epidote. The...
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N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has aligned epitaxial fibrous crystals of akermanite-gehlenite on manganoan calcite. This would be a rare set of minerals for the locality. These minerals have formed over...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
A small cluster of pale yellow gemmy thaumasite. The thaumasite are small, the largest crystal to 0.8cm which is relatively big for the species, most crystals are inclined...
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Some of the world's finest hematite specimens are found at the Wessels Mine. This miniature features a 4.1cm scalenohedron with a few side car crystals. The hematite crystal...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is an example of bultfonteinite after hydroxyapophyllite. The psm is in a cubic form with bevelled corners in a slightly pink bultfonitenite. The prominent crystal is...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The ilmenite has a lamellar tabular trigonal structure. these three characterestics can be seen in the structure and in some of the aligned surface patterns on the flat...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
An attractive azurite specimen with good sized crystals of an intense blue color, light enough that vivid hues of blue show through. The crystals are sharp with chiseled...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Intergrown crystals of calcite grown over mottramite on a residue of matrix. The modified rhombic crystals of calcite with bevelled edges, the largest crystal 1.3cm across have intergrown...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The jeremejevite specimen is a small modified six sided crystal with multiple terminations. There are multiple terminations as well. From finds in Feb 2008.
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Omehane, Otjinamewa, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has violet coloured fluorite grown over green fluorite. The green fluorite was deposited first in the sequence. One sees a green cubic crystal yet next to...
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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 360degrees around a core...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen has fluorite cubic crystals as gemmy as they can be. The crystals have a very transparent hint of veridian colour leaning towards teal, but like pure...
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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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Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Limpopo, South Africa
The specimen is made up of multiple intergrown crystals of quartz which have formed a cluster which is also healed on the under side. The quartz crystals are...
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Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Limpopo, South Africa
This is a single crystal of quartz which is healed on the underside revealing multiple glassy terminations. Included in the quartz crystal towards the main terminations sprays of...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen has botryoidal goethite on cubic crystals of green fluorite. The crystal cubes are of a modified with some corners revealing a stepped structure. The crystals are...
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Kandesei, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
I bought this specimen around 2012 and is made up of a cluster of lustrous dioptase crystals with good colour and reaching up to 0.8cm and are deposited...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The specimen of pseudomorphed malachite psm azurite on a host white dolomite/quartz mix matrix. Originally a beautiful bladed and prismatic crystal of azurite which has been replaced by...
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Kandesei, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
The specimen is a small intergrown cluster of dioptase crystals. The small specimen makes a good display piece with the main crystal to 1cm. The specimen is from...
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Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
I am very fond of this specimen which is made up of multiple intergrown scalenohedral calcite crystals. The crystals all terminate towards the main termination. The surface of...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is made up of a few crystals of olmiite which are attached at the base. The olmiite have a lovely luster with good gemmy qualitites. The...
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N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The specimen is made up of a deposit of rhodochrosite on a thin host matrix which can be seen on he underside. The rhodochrosite is light milky pink...
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