The SA Mineral Shop specimen record
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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 vivid red just...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
One is looking at a cluster of very gemmy aquamarine that grew into the space between numerous small growths of feldspar. The aquamarine grew into loosely packed feldspar...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is a free-form shallow plate of cassiterite. The piece is wholely cassiterite, with the underside more bladed than anything and the good side a complex inter-growth...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is a twinned crystal ball. Olmiite formed into a twinned aggregate ball formation of lustrous translucent brown crystals. The small specimen is impressive as the ball...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is mae up of manganite on rhodochrosite on matrix. The manganite is confined to one side of the specimen in tiny metallic crystals ontop of light...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The specimen is made up of multiple bushes of manganoan calcite intergrown with one another. Each 'bush' of manganoan calcite is made up of a stem which extends...
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Artonvilla Mine, Musina, Limpopo, South Africa
The specimen is a neat floater and cluster of doubly terminated crystals of quartz with ajoite inclusions. Needles of turquoise ajoite laced in a fibrous mesh define phantom...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has a radial acicular dome of pink manganoan calcite with a perfectly exposed hollow underside finished in fine needle points. This could well be the primary...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
A deposit of gemmy translucent pink rhodochrosite on a shallow shard of banded ironstone. The rhodochrosite formed small slightly bent rhombic crystals with hight lustre and good clean...
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Rosh Pinah Mine, Rosh Pinah, Oranjemund Constituency, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
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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Van der Plas Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia
An intergrown cluster of elongate crystals of dioptase on a matrix residue of shards of quartz. The dioptase crystals have the most basic crystal habit of hexagonal prism...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen is made up of rhodochrosite with some matrix attached. The display side of the specimen is with a lovely milky pink colour which is made up...
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Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
This is a miniature-sized specimen of shattuckite from the copper deposits in the Kambove area in DR Congo. The cluster is in an overall botryoidal form with a...
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Otjua Mine, Otjua Farm 37, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
This is a single crystal of tourmaline. The tourmaline has a pale pink colour at the surface level. When backlit the pink colour really comes to life. There...
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Orange River Area, Karas Region, Namibia
The specimen of quartz has a red oxide phantom included just below the surface of the crystal. The outer zone of the crystal is clear quartz allowing one...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen is made up of intergrown feldspar crystals of small size which have formed an elongated cluster. The cluster of feldspar is host to a deposit of...
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Erongo Mountains, Karibib Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia
The specimen has a towering crystal of aquamarine set on a steep incline of feldspar. The aquamarine crystal is shaped by twinning with the main tower of the...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen is made up of intergrown crystals of fluorite with a quartz crystal perched right on the top. The quartz crystal has a micro abrasion on the...
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Orange River Area, Karas Region, Namibia
The specimen of quartz has a red oxide phantom included just below the surface of the crystal. The outer zone of the crystal is clear quartz allowing one...
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Okandawasi, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia
The specimen is a small intergrown cluster of dioptase crystals. the dioptase have inverse cavities where likely calcite crystals have dissolved away. There is a residual piece of...
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Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa, Namibia
The specimen has a radial cluster of small clear quartz crystals attached onto a small intergrown cluster of simple cubic crystals of fluorite. The fluorite crystals to 1cm...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
The specimen has something of a whorl-like cluster of pyramidal crystals of hausmannite on hematite. The matrix includes andradite and oxidised iron. The hematite has numerous highly specular...
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Mashamba West Mine, DR Congo
The specimen has cuprite on malachite. The cuprite has inter-penetrating octahedral crystals in three separate clusters and the crystal surfaces are covered in a thin wash. The malachite...
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N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
This is a two sided specimen which is made up of a deposit of rhodochrosite on one side and on the underside. The main display side is made...
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