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Smithsonite

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This miniature crystallized Smithsonite specimen from Tsumeb mine in Namibia is double-sided and so can be displayed one of two ways. The Smithsonite encrusts a freestanding narrow rib of pale pinkish rock as pale cream coloured extremely well-formed rhombic crystals with a superb pearlescent lustre. The individual crystals exceptionally reach 9 mm on edge, or 1.2 cm end to end. One side of the specimen is totally encrusted with intergrown rhombs, whist the other has them spaced out so that individual crystals can be studied. The crystals are all in excellent condition and the specimen has that classic hefty feel generated by the density of Smithsonite. A very fine Tsumeb Smithsonite and nice to see the pure colour rather than the many different brightly coloured varieties of Smithsonites from there.

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Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions5.8 x 4.7 x 2.5 cm
Listed on04/09/2025
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC51848

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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.