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Cobaltoan Smithsonite with Cerussite

$3,500.00

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The pink cobalt-bearing variety of Smithsonite is one of the most popular forms of Smithsonite from Tsumeb mine because it combines an attractive but unusual colour with well-defined crystals. Usually though, specimens are small, making sizable display pieces the hardest to source. This significant cabinet-sized display specimen naturally presents well on its side, but comes with a custom-made Sunnywood acryllic display stand which allows the specimen to be displayed upright vertically, thus showing off the associated cluster of Cerussite crystals at one end. Slightly paler pink than some Cobaltoan Smithsonite this super specimen is liberally covered with sharp, well-formed, pointed Smithsonite crystals, from 3 to 8 mm in length, but with the characteristic slight rounding to their edges as seen with most pink cobaltoan forms. The crystals extend around to the sides, making for a really great all-round display, and all showing off a great pearlescent lustre. A really very large display specimen of Cobaltoan Smithsonite for the price.

Product details

Species
Smithsonite, CerussiteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeCabinet
Dimensions12.1 x 5.4 x 6.2 cm
Listed on04/11/2026
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC37500

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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.