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DanZ RockshopFeatured

Arvada, Colorado, USA

1,814 for sale·31 sold

I was shocked when I first saw this specimen. I had never seen a combination of chalcotrichite with smithsonite from Tsumeb. Much less a nice cabinet sized example with multiple intact smithsonite stalactites! A very unique piece for the Tsumeb connoisseur. Comes with a custom cut acrylic base.

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Species

Smithsonite, ChalcotrichiteAbout Smithsonite →

SizeCabinet

Dimensions12.5 x 11.0 x 7.0 cm

Listed on05/16/2026

Locality

Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →

SKU27619

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Smithsonite

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ZnCO3 with botryoidal and crystalline forms, silky to vitreous luster, pastel hues from cobalt to yellow; localities boost collecting appeal.

Smithsonite

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.