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Smithsonite

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I just love it when Smithsonite looks like gummy jelly. This habit is less often seen at Tsumeb mine, but as this piece from the Weyand collection shows, when it is good, it is excellent. Small cabinet in size this wonderful specimen presents an elongated cavity coated with the most delicious bubbly, botryoidal, lime-green to yellow, orange and pale duck egg blue Smithsonite, with a sumptuous waxy lustre. Look carefully and the botryoids are composed of a myriad of tiny crystals. A simply stunning Tsumeb Smithsonite - not large crystals, but who needs them when you have botryoids this good.

Product details

Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions8.6 x 6.5 x 4.6 cm
Listed on09/17/2025
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC52776

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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.