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Smithsonite

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Tsumeb has produced smithsonite specimens in just about every color and crystal form, and the locality is universally-acknowledged as having produced the world’s best examples of the species. This impressive specimen features lustrous colorless smithsonite crystals with gray-black inclusions, which form highly aesthetic rhombs on black matrix. This fine Tsumeb smithsonite is in very good condition and sits nicely as pictured for display.

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Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions8.0 x 9.0 x 9.5 cm
Listed on09/25/2025
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKU47908

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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.