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Cobaltoan Smithsonite

$1,800.00

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As miniature Cobaltoan Smithsonites go, this is an absolute corker. It really does have everything going for it that one would expect for the perfect miniature specimen. Colourful, like a vivid bubble-gum pink sweet, with sumptuous rounded gummy crystals draped around a sculpturally perfect partly concave cavity on one side, but the damage-free crystals continue around the undulating sides of this beautiful piece. Despite being rounded in form, careful examination shows each crystal to display an intriguing complexity of faces, with their resinous to waxy lustre adding to their allure. Individually these crystals reach 5 to 6 mm in size, but it is their perfection in appearance which makes this specimen so special. An absolutely top drawer Tsumeb miniature.

Product details

Species
SmithsoniteAbout Smithsonite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions3.5 x 4.2 x 3.0 cm
Listed on11/22/2025
Locality
Namibia, Oshikoto Region, TsumebRegional guide →
SKUCC35111

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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.