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Cobaltoan Smithsonite

$7,500.00

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A Tsumeb classic, and a pretty one at that. Tsumeb mine in Namibia has, without question, produced the world's finest examples of Cobaltoan Smithsonite - the stunning bubble-gum pink variety. This small cabinet specimen displays extremely well and is covered with superb, pink, resinous Cobaltoan Smithsonite crystals on both its front and rear. It is full of character, with beautiful undulating surfaces coated with complex crystals displaying both smooth, glassy faces, and stepped, somewhat serrated edges. Most of the crystals are between 3 and 4 mm in length, but some reach 6 to 7 mm.

Product details

Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.0 x 5.5 x 3.9 cm
Listed on06/14/2025
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC35150

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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.