Smithsonite

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A rare, spectacular specimen of stalactitic smithsonite, featuring highly lustrous and translucent, sea-green "fingers" with lavender overtones in a very sculptural array. Touissit is known more for its azurites and cerussites than for its smithsonites, but it once turned out these really fine ones, in the green tones of color. They are, when they turn up on the market today, almost certainly mistaken for and sold as Tsumeb green smithsonites. However, I know someone who was present when these came out in the late 1980s and reassured me this unique style is indeed from Touissit. Ex. Dave Stoudt Collection.