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COBALTOAN Smithsonite

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The pink, cobalt-rich variety of Smithsonite, known as Cobaltoan Smithsonite is, in my opinion, one of the most attractive minerals known from Tsumeb mine. Specimens can come in a variety of shades, from very pale pink to deep cerise and with a variety of lustres, transparencies and crystal forms. This large miniature to small cabinet specimen displays perhaps the most desirable colour and form: bright, bubble gum pink curved lenticular Cobaltoan Smithsonite crystals with a classic 'greasy' lustre and fine translucency. The intergrown crystals cover almost the whole of the upper display surface beneath which is a dark grey sulphide matrix. This is one of those impactful specimens that catches the eye. A super Tsumeb mine Smithsonite.

Product details

Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions3.5 x 7.5 x 2.7 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC4235

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Smithsonite
Mineral guide
Learn about Smithsonite
ZnCO3 with botryoidal and crystalline forms, silky to vitreous luster, pastel hues from cobalt to yellow; localities boost collecting appeal.
Smithsonite
Regional guide
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.