The SA Mineral Shop specimen record
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
This is a very nice crystal cluster of schorl crystals which are intergrown with one another. The main crystal measures 3.7cm and is doubly terminated. The crystals have...
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Gobobosebberge Mountains, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
A doubly terminated smoky amethyst quartz. The base termination is almost complete but there is a small rough contact mass that suggests that the crystal was attached. The...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The specimen has a matrix of sulphides ore material and quartz. The outcropped quartz is corroded and etched to a jagged texture and nicely milky to grey. The...
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Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a crystal of green blue elbaite. The colour when held to the light is a true warm green in the termination and a very nice...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has a thin band of ironstone covered by a layer of orange cinnamon coloured crystals of inesite. The inesite largely has small radial bunches of prismatic...
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Okandawasi, Kaokoveld Plateau, 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 1.5cm. The specimen is from...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has opal-an on a smoky quartz crystal with small schorl crystals attached. The opal-an has a bubble-like formation and is very pure and gemmy.
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has opal-an on a smoky quartz cluster with small schorl crystals attached. The opal-an has a bubble-like formation and is very pure and gemmy.
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has opal-an on a smoky quartz crystal. The opal-an has a bubble-like formation and is spectacularly daytime fluorescent. The opal-an is very pure and gemmy.
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen consists of a cluster of deep green cubic crystals of fluorite. The cubic crystals have a modified habit with the edges in stepped cubic structures that...
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Okandawasi, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia
A cluster of inter grown shattuckite perched on the edge of a massive quartz. The round surface of the shattuckite are finished in tiny fine needles forming an...
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Orange River Area, Karas Region, Namibia
An attractive specimen here of quartz crystals with a main quartz that has multiple terminations and then at the base there is a second generation of quartz crystals...
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Skorpion Mine, Karas Region Namibia
From finds in 2018, the year before the Skorpion Zinc Mine closed, this specimen is made up of a deposit of Quartz drusy over Chrysocolla on Malachite on...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is made up of botryoidal mounds on top of one another in light milky pink colour. The botryoids of rhodochrosite are made up of tiny rhombic...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen is made up of a deposit of inter grown modified cubic crystals of fluorite. The fluorite has a mustard yellow colour with some some purple zoning...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has ettringite with brucite and oyellite and manganite in association on a band of sedimentary lamellar ironstone. The ettringite has a single doubly terminated crystal on...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
A small specimen here which is made up of a couple of inter grown sturmanite crystals with some remnants of matrix attached. The sturmanite are in a lovely...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
An unusual and rare association here which is with hematite and gaudefroyite. The hematite crystals are silvery and and some of them doubly terminated too. The hematite are...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
A lovely specimen here made up of a deposit of andradite garnet onto a wedge shaped host country rock matrix. The andradite is deposited onto two sides of...
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N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has cone formed clusters of kutnohorite crystals made up of elongate columns of stacked crystal growth, growing in narrow parallel and sub-parallel clusters. There is an...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen is made up of inter grown crystals of fluorite that have quartz crystals deposited onto them. The fluorite are small and in a cubic form with...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen has a cluster of small clear quartz crystals attached onto a small intergrown cluster of simple cubic crystals of fluorite. The fluorite crystals to 1.1cm across...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
From finds in 2009, the specimen is made up of small balls of white oyellite and light pink bultfonteinite deposited onto the olmiite. Its color is a tan...
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Gobobosebberge Mountains, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has a rather unique form and habit. A pair of quartz crystals each has a reverse amethyst sceptre. The main crystal has a standard hexagonal point....
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