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Smithsonite

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This cabinet specimen of Smithsonite from Tsumeb mine displays quite an unusual and distinctive form. From John Schneider's famous Tsumeb collection it has a remarkable 'wet' lustre. The Smithsonite forms a thick creamish coloured layer upon darker matrix with the upper surface coated in crystals. The crystals are thin and lenticular, with an almost bladed and curved shape, with prominent orange inclusions along the top 'ridge' of each. They exceptionally reach nearly 2 cm in length. The zonation and lustre is most unusual and will make a fine addition to a Tsumeb Smithsonite suite.

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Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions9.9 x 6.4 x 4.2 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC16115

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Smithsonite
Mineral guide
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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.