The SA Mineral Shop specimen record
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Gobobosebberge Mountains, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
A beautiful example of skeletal/venster/fenster quartz with inclusions of clay sediment. The geometry of the inverse skeletal structure is simple and geometrically explicit. The crystal also has a...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The specimen has a richly coloured deposit of dioptase crystals on white calcite. Simple formation of hexagonal prismatic crystals with rhombic terminations on partly gemmy emerald green crystals....
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Orange River Area, Karas Region, Namibia
The specimen has red hematite phantoms inside quartz. The outcrop of a few larger crystals with small crystals on quartz has well described phantoms in blood red just...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
An old specimen here from finds in the 80s with discs of sturmanite with micro hematite on a host matrix. The sturmanite crystals are yellow brown and have...
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Tenke Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
I bought this specimen in 2023 from the Tenke Mine which is a relatively new mine. There is a single cobaltoan calcite crystals deposited on a country rock...
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N'Chwaning III Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
A piece of bixbyite ore with the surface made up of cubic crystals on one side and on the underside crystals of fine manganite. All of the crystals...
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N'Chwaning III Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Sugilite is a rare complex lithium silicate and is a member of the osumilite group. Most specimens are massive and make very colorful lapidary material. This specimen is...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The specimen is made up of fine pseudo-octahedral pagoda-shaped crystals of hausmannite up to 0.7cm which have grouped together with some tiny andradite garnet sprinkled on the underside....
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Kandesei, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
An attractive specimen here of shattuckite on a host matrix of massive quartz. The shattuckite is in a botryoidal form which has formed a shallow basin on one...
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Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is from finds in the early 2000s with pink capped tourmaline crystals. There is a main 3.1cm crystal with smaller side cart crystals attached. The colour...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
An attractive specimen here of quartz attached to the side of a fluorite crystal. The quartz crystals are small lustrous and clear. The fluorite crystal is modified with...
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Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a single crystal of light pink brown elbaite. Some parts of the crystal have gem parts. Good lustre and lovely striations running down the sides.
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Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a twinned trigonal crystal of green elbaite. The colour is a true warm green with curtain refractions hinting towards leaf green highlights. The crystal termination...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen has a violet coloured cubic crystal of fluorite on a matrix with quartz. The fluorite has a simple cubic habit with some minimal cubic steps. Just...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is made up of aquamarine on a matrix of feldspar with schorl. The feldspar has formed a shallow valley into which the aquamarine crystal comes out...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
This is a single crystal of a six sided crystal of ettringite from finds in 2005 at the N'Chwaning II Mine. The colour is a lovely bright lemon...
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N'Chwaning III Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Sugilite is a rare complex lithium silicate and is a member of the osumilite group. Most specimens are massive and make very colorful lapidary material. This specimen is...
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N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has a shallow rhombic bladed crystals aggregated together forming an impressive pink rhodochrosite ball crystal. The rhodochrosite is deposited on top of botryoidal goethite with the...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has a doubly terminating crystal of schorl with the upper termination topped in opal-AN. The opal has grown in two phases, the first phase leaving a...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
From finds in January 1999 the specimen is made up of fine pseudo-octahedral pagoda-shaped crystals of hausmannite up to 0.7cm which have grouped together on the top part...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has a flat underside touched with opal-AN and green muscovite with feldspar. Fluorite has one crystal showing otherwise it is covered under the aquamarine and the...
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Gobobosebberge Mountains, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
A high lustre quartz crystal with an ink-like wash of violet amethyst merging into a smoky wash. the crystal has a moving gas bubble housed as well as...
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Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
The specimen has a prominent crystal of emerald green dioptase with smaller scattered crystals in good emerald green colour. The main crystal is twinned. The dioptase measures to...
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Gobobosebberge Mountains, Brandberg Area, Dâures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a nicely proportioned crystal of amethyst with two gas bubble inclusions one of them being mobile inside of a negative crystal. The amethystine presence is...
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