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Cuprotungstite with Goethite, Quartz

Unknown Owner
Yellow green micro crystalline and massive cuprotungstite very rich across the front of a quartz matrix with minor goethite. This is a choice rich example for the species. Collected in 2009. Malachite is present as well.

Product details

Species
Quartz, GoethiteAbout Quartz →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions8.0 x 4.0 x 2.5 cm
Added on11/20/2025
Locality
Namibia, Erongo Region, Brandberg AreaRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Unknown Owner$100.00
—Weinrich MineralsNot disclosed

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a versatile mineral with clear, milky, and colored varieties; crystal forms, formation clues, and tips for identifying amethyst and citrine.
Quartz
Regional guide
Quartz from Brandberg Area, Namibia
from the Brandberg Area of Namibia occupies one of those rare positions in the mineral market where a commercial name, a collector tradition, and a real geological district overlap but are not perfectly identical. “Brandberg quartz” is the familiar dealer’s phrase, yet much of the classic amethystine quartz, smoky quartz, colorless quartz, scepters, reverse scepters, and fenster quartz attributed to Brandberg is more precisely from the Goboboseb Mountains west of the Brandberg massif, especially the Tafelkop area. That distinction matters to serious collectors: Brandberg Mountain itself is a protected national monument, and the celebrated specimens seen in collections and at shows are principally from basalt-hosted amygdules and geodes in the surrounding Brandberg–Goboboseb district rather than from the granite massif proper.