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Classic Tsumeb mine Smithsonite in a beige to sherry colour with super-bright resinous ('wet' lustre) crystals to 3.5 mm in length. These are certainly nowhere near to the largest Smithsonite crystals known from Tsumeb, but as Smithsonites go, this is a really fine miniature-sized example richly encrusted in really fine 'modified' somewhat curved, or twisted, rhombic crystals. Ex Glyn Cunnick Collection.

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Species

SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →

SizeSmall Cabinet

Dimensions6.2 x 2.6 x 2.7 cm

Listed on11/19/2025

Locality

Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →

SKUCC42182

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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

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.