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Jeremejevite

Unknown Owner

Jeremejevite is one of those Holy Grail rare species that is both significant and beautiful! Seldom do we see any specimens bigger than a few centimeters, and this is a nearly unprecedented giant of a specimen crystal, nearly 4 inches in length! It is from a classic older find in Namibia of the early 2000s, and was long in the Namibian collection of Marshall and Charlotte Sussman. It is beautiful, large, important... and almost nobody will ever own anything as magnificently large of this blue borate species. Custom lucite base is included.

Product details

Species
JeremejeviteAbout Jeremejevite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions9.7 x 1.0 x 0.7 cm
Added on10/23/2024
Locality
Namibia, Erongo Region, Erongo MountainsRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Unknown Owner$20,000.00
—The ArkenstoneNot disclosed
—Marshall SussmanNot disclosed

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Mineral guide
Learn about Jeremejevite
exceptionally rare aluminum borate prized for gemmy sky-blue to colorless prisms with sharp terminations; Namibian Erongo pegmatites set the ben…
Jeremejevite
Regional guide
Jeremejevite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia
from the Erongo Mountains is one of the defining rare-mineral stories of early-21st-century Namibia: a tiny run of pale to saturated blue aluminum borate crystals, many initially mistaken for aquamarine, that turned a mineralogical rarity into a coveted collector species. The best Erongo examples are slender, transparent to gemmy prisms with a cool blue core, glassy luster, sharp hexagonal outlines, and color zoning that may fade toward a near-colorless or pale termination. In hand, fine crystals have the delicacy of aquamarine but a different optical personality—more steely, more pleochroic, and often with a columnar, needle-like poise that makes even a thumbnail feel important.