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K201 - Hematite - $ 1850 SOLD 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 SOLD 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.
K211 - Xonotlite in Selenite with Inesite - $ 950 SOLD Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 4.8 x 4.2 x 2.2 cm
Wow! Wonderfully unique specimen featuring a 1.5 cm perfect xonotlite preserved like a fly in amber inside selenite that overlaid it. Other xonotlite balls stick out the side.
K212 - Brucite with Calcite - $ 1100 Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 4.1 x 2.8 x 2.0 cm
A very striking cluster of unusually mustard-colored brucite crystals with sparkling calcite for accent!
K213 - Inesite on Bultfonteinite - $ 125 SOLD Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 5.0 x 3.2 x 2.1 cm
A very unusual combination piece featuring small , acicular inesite crystals (8 mm across) perched on a rolling surface of stark white bultfonteinite
K214 - Manganite - $ 750 Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 4.3 x 4.0 x 2.5 cm
An elegant cluster of unusual, thick, blocky manganite crystals splayign like a flower. Gray and color-challenged, yes, but still a pretty darned good manganite especially for a manganese mine that produces few manganite specimens! Complete on 3 sides, sawed flat on the back (or a flat conteact, I am not sure which)
K216 - Kutnahorite - $ 650 SOLD Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa miniature, 5.3 x 4.1 x 3.3 cm
Superb, really pink kutnahorite crystals PERCHED on matrix of manganese ore! They measure 4-plus cm long. You ALMOST NEVER SEE this style of crystallized kutnahorite on matrix! In fact, I cannot recall the last time I saw one on matrix.
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