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Zincolivenite

$3,000.00

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This miniature specimen from the famous Tsumeb mine features some of the most unusual Zincolivenite crystals that you will ever see. Featuring an intriguing stepped-habit these crystals are also colour-zoned with pale mint-green main central crystals, and darker emerald-green secondary growth on the wings of the main crystals. Not only are they unusual, but they are large too, reaching 1.3 mm in length. The finely stepped habit gives rise to a sawtooth appearance, whose teeth have a sucrosic micro-granular texture. The crystals are aggregated together upon a very thin piece of matrix, but the majority on the specimen is Zincolivenite. This delightful Zincolivenite comes mounted on a clear acrylic base for display.

Product details

Species
ZincoliveniteAbout Zincolivenite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions2.8 x 3.7 x 1.5 cm
Listed on02/12/2025
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC5876

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Mineral guide
Learn about Zincolivenite
emerald-green crystals in radiating sprays with vitreous to adamantine luster; notable localities, color, habit, and ID cues.
Zincolivenite
Regional guide
Zincolivenite from Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
from Tsumeb is the modern name for much of the vivid green “cuproadamite” and “cuprian adamite” that circulated for decades from this legendary Namibian mine. It sits between adamite and olivenite in the adamite–olivenite solid-solution series, with ideal composition CuZn(AsO4)(OH), and Tsumeb is one of the places where that chemistry becomes a collector’s problem as much as a mineralogical one: color, habit, and zoning can suggest the identity, but the most careful determinations rely on quantitative chemical analysis.