Calcite on Kutnohorite, N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa

The specimen has a free formed mass of kutnohorite crystals made up of elongate columns of stacked crystal growth, growing in narrow parallel and sub-parallel clusters. At their termination level there are some elongate cauliform growths of white calcite clusters made up of tiny rounded scalene crystals.

Size: 3.2 x 5 x 2.5cm

Locality: N'Chwaning I, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa