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Mimetite on Smithsonite

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The combination of sulphur-yellow Mimetite alongside Smithsonite is unusual, but is a rare classic from the famous Tsumeb mine in Namibia. This small cabinet-sized specimen presents this association very well, and with quite unusual Smithsonite crystals, forming cream coloured flattish stacked rhombs, but with some reddish inclusions producing nice colour zoning. The brightly coloured Mimetite is concentrated down one edge of the sample as small elongated needle-like crystals aggregated in groups. Ex Weyand Collection.

Product details

Species
Smithsonite, MimetiteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.5 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm
Listed on04/11/2026
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC53812

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Smithsonite
Mineral guide
Learn about Smithsonite
ZnCO3 with botryoidal and crystalline forms, silky to vitreous luster, pastel hues from cobalt to yellow; localities boost collecting appeal.
Smithsonite
Regional guide
Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia
is one of the defining collector minerals of Tsumeb: not merely because it is common there, but because Tsumeb turns a usually massive or botryoidal zinc carbonate into a locality signature mineral with uncommon crystal variety, depth of color, and association. Tsumeb smithsonite spans the familiar apple-greens and blue-greens of copper-bearing material, soft pink to violet-pink cobaltoan and manganoan-looking rhombs, yellow-brown and chocolate-brown iron-rich crystals, pale grey to white crusts, colorless to translucent rhombs, and rare red-pink material from the deeper oxidized workings. The best specimens combine sharp rhombohedral or scalenohedral crystals with the sculptural mineralogical theater for which Tsumeb is famous: galena-rich sulfide matrix, sugary dolomite, black tennantite and pyrite ore, cerussite, mimetite, malachite, wulfenite, duftite, dioptase, and willemite.