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Descloizite

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Perfectly developed, metallic black Descloizite crystals to 2.0 x 1.0 x 0.3 cm form a very aesthetic miniature from the world famous Berg Aukas mine in the Grootfontein District of Namibia. The Descloizite crystals form elegant spear-like blades, many with pine-tree profile type habits and groups forming V-shaped castellated ridges. Deep salmon-orange micro Dolomite crystals cluster around the specimen and some Descloizite faces are tinted deep salmon by coatings of micro-crystalline Dolomite. A very choice Descloizite from the Berg Aukas mine and would make a fine addition to the most specialist of Descloizite collections.\n

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Species
DescloiziteAbout Descloizite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions2.8 x 4.1 x 2.8 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Namibia, Otjozondjupa Region, Berg Aukas MineRegional guide →
SKUCC17884

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Descloizite
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.
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.