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Smithsonite

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This is an extremely fine 'simple' classic from Tsumeb mine. This most famous of mineral collecting localities is renowned for its wide range of colours and crystal forms presented by its Smithsonite - zinc carbonate. Often it is the brightly coloured copper-, cobalt- and cadmium-rich varieties that get seen, but it is surprisingly rare to see a really well-crystallized pure white or colourless Smithsonite, but that is exactly what we have here. Small cabinet in size, it presents excellent sharp rhombic crystals, individually reaching 1.4 cm on edge. These are world-class Smithsonite crystals and this pure bed, or plate, of aggregated Smithsonite crystals is an amazing example, made even more perfect by its subtle colour zonation - with white rims delineating the edges of the crystals. A really high class crystallized world Smithsonite.

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Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions4.7 x 7.3 x 3.3 cm
Listed on08/02/2025
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC18861

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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.