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Descloizite

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Descloizite (basic lead-zinc vanadate) from Berg Aukas mine, close to Grootfontein in Namibia, comes in a myriad of habits and colour variations. This excellent specimen can best be described as butterfly shaped with each spread wing encrusted in sharp, spear-habit Descloizite crystals. The larger crystals measure to about 1 cm tall and wide, and tend to be a sooty matt black, while the surrounding smaller crystals are a bright, lustrous, metallic jet-black. The underlying matrix is that of vuggy, granular Descloizite. A very fine specimen from Berg Aukas.

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Species
DescloiziteAbout Descloizite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions6.8 x 9.8 x 6.7 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Namibia, Otjozondjupa Region, Berg Aukas MineRegional guide →
SKUCC18518

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