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K201 - Hematite - $1850 Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 4.4 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm
A brilliantly metallic specimen of hematite of the highest quality, featuring a complexly terminated 2.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm crystal on matrix of hematite with an entirely different habit , itself then on matrix. This is as close to a "jewel-like" appearance as I think you will ever see for an opaque metallic species!
K202 - Datolite - $1450 SOLD Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 4.2 x 3.8 x 2.2 cm
A rare pink datolite, fairly large for the material produced, and with as intense color as I have ever sene in sucha specimen. They were very uncommon, from the mid 1980s.
K203 - Manganite - $750 Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 4.5 x 2.2 x 1.2 cm
Stunning, elongated, unusual manganite crystals , especially good for the locality where such large crystals are seldom found. Brilliant and pristine display face, slight contact atop only.
K204 - Calcite (twinned) - $250 Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 3.4 x 2.7 x 1.1 cm
Superb, sharp, very symmetric twinned calcite wiht dusting of minor manganite!
K205 - Hausmannite - $950 SOLD Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa thumbnail, 3.1 x 2.7 x 2.0 cm
SHARP, very equant, mirror-lustrous cluster of the highest quality!
K206 - Hennomartinite and Sugilite in Quartz - $900 SOLD Wessels Mine miniature, 3.5 x 2.4 x 1.7 cm
Beautiful specimen hosting a 1.5 cm gem quartz through which you see the sugilite matrix, studded also with minute crystals of (brown) Hennomartinite . RARE MATERIAL found only once at this mine!
K207 - Hematite - $350 SOLD Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 4.0 x 2.9 x 2.2 cm
Superb stacked cluster of two 3-dimensional hematite crystals, mirror-bright and sharp all around except a smal lcontact in back
K208 - Rhodochrosite - $1800 SOLD NChwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 3.3 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
Classic wheat-sheaf-like rhodo clusters joined together in a pinwheel aggregate, very aesthetic and very juicy with cherry-red color! It is almost a floater and is really complete all around, with jus tminor contacts.
K209 - Datolite - $400 Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 3.3 x 3.0 x 1.8 cm
A beautiful specimen like no other I have seen from here, with a not so subtle lavender hue to it! Wonderful, curving crystals had us fooled it was calcite...
K210 - Poldervaartite - $750 SOLD NChwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 4.9 x 2.5 x 1.7 cm
A sparkling stack of poldervaartite from the finds of 4 years ago, unusual in its vertical aspect. ppristine on front and complete on the front, contacted only in back.
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