Descloizite

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This is a superb descloizite demonstrating an elegance and sculptural quality, with its big, bladed crystals (to 1.3 cm) that look almost like wulfenites in form. These sharp crystals are sprinkled with little barytes. Ex. Rob Smith Collection.

Product details

SpeciesDescloizite

SizeSmall Cabinet

Dimensions5.9 x 3.1 x 3.1 cm

Added on10/23/2024

LocalityNamibia, Otjozondjupa Region, Berg Aukas Mine

Known provenance

Date	Collector	Acquisition price
08/2024	Unknown Owner	Not disclosed
—	The Arkenstone	Not disclosed

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Mineral guide

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lead-zinc vanadate with lustrous rosettes, black-to-brown tones, and warm translucence; top localities Otavi, Namibia and Ojuela, Mexico.

Regional guide

Descloizite from Berg Aukas Mine, Namibia

Berg Aukas descloizite is one of the great “species-defining” classics: the locality by which serious collectors judge descloizite. The best pieces have a sculptural, almost architectural presence—dark brown to nearly black spear-point crystals, glossy blades, jackstraw bundles, radiating rosettes, and sharply terminated clusters that can look metallic under a show lamp yet glow warm reddish brown along thinner edges. Many specimens sit in pleasing contrast on pale calcite, dolomite, smithsonite, or willemite-bearing matrix, giving the dark vanadate crystals the visual authority of black lacquer against limestone.

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