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Mineral Specimens with Mimetite
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5.5 x 5.2 x 2.6 cm. Sharp crystals to 1 cm perched dramatically on contrasting velvety mimetite so green and richly colored, it looks like no other mimetite I have ever seen. Pristine with no damage!
5.6 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm. Sharp crystals to 9 mm perched dramatically on contrasting velvety mimetite so green and richly colored.
6.2 x 4.0 x 1.6 cm. Sharp crystals to 1.7 cm perched dramatically on contrasting velvety mimetite so green and richly colored, it looks like no other mimetite I have ever seen. No damage!
5.8 x 5.6 x 2.5 cm. Sharp crystals to 9mm perched dramatically on contrasting velvety mimetite so green and richly colored, it looks like no other mimetite I have ever seen. No damage to the display face, with just a few edges around the periphery contacted.
9.5 x 8.2 x 4.7 cm. Sharp wulfenite crystals to 11mm.
11.7 x 7.3 x 5.8 cm. This is mostly a mimetite specimen, and as such is among the largest one we got out of the find, with rolling botryoidal green velvety carpets on 3-dimensional matrix, dusted with sharp bipyramidal wulfenites for contrast. Dramatic piece, and an excellent mimetite!
11.4 x 8.6 x 6.8 cm. This beautiful specimen has rolling botryoidal green velvety carpets of mimetite on matrix, dusted with sharp pyramidal wulfenites to 5mm for contrast.
11.0 x 7.1 x 4.7 cm. A beautiful large cabinet piece that is among the best and largest combo specimens, with sharp wulfenite crystals to over 1 cm contrasted on the rolling velvety mimetites. Dramatic and large!
8.6 x 4.4 x 3.8 cm. Extremely unusual blocky crystals to 8mm, unusual for wulfenite from this mine and from most other localities...but especially in this pocket, so radically different from the others. Very aesthetic, as well, due to the contrasting mimetite!
4.5 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm. A superb pair of the deepest, most brilliant green Fluorites that I have ever seen from Erongo. Each crystal of the pair is about 1.5 cm, and the luster is excellent. And like the smaller, paler Fluorites on the specimen, there is a hint of purple on some of the faces. Ex. Charlie Key.
7.4 x 5.5 x 3.3 cm. A crust of sparkling, cobaltoan smithsonite, with crystals reaching 3mm across, is the host for an aesthetic cluster of lustrous and translucent, golden crystals of mimetite. The cluster measures over 2 cm across. The mimetites are intergrown artistically with the sparkling smithsonite crystals, but spray up and pop out 3-dimensionally. Very nice! Ex. Charlie Key.
5.0 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm. Although not very colorful, this specimen represents a rarity in Tsumeb combo pieces. Black, massive ore hosts two cyclic twinned, gemmy and glassy cerussite crystals to1.0 cm in length side by side with acicular crystals, some doubly terminated, of light yellowish-tan, gemmy mimetite to 1.0 cm across. Ex. Charlie Key.
7.0 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm. Crystal clusters of lustrous, bundled mimetite crystals, thin and vertical individually but overall in cluster to 1.0 cm across, completely cover a matrix of massive black ore. There are also a few crystals of gemmy and glassy cerussite, to .5 cm across, which are perched on the mimetite clusters. Unusual form for mimetite here. Ex. Charlie Key.
5.3 x 3.3 x 1.9 cm. A mini from an extremely unusual batch of mimetites we acquired from the classic locality, familiar in every way except for the fact that they are truly GREEN - instead of the usual yellow!
7.5 x 6.8 x 4.0 cm. An EXCELLENT, OLD-TIME and UNCOMMON Tsumeb specimen from the Rob Smith Collection. Lustrous, sharp and hexgonal, tan mimetite crystals to 1.8 cm RICHLY and attractively cover the 3-dimensional matrix. The mimetite crystals are preferentially coated with lustrous, gray smithsonite microcrystals. The matrix of this very fine piece is botryoidal green and massive blue-gray willemite! This is an old specimen, from the upper levels of this famous and now-closed mine. This is a hefty zinc and lead specimen, for its size, at 398 grams or 7/8 of a pound! Essentially pristine, with only a trivial bit of periphery bruising. An important, old-time combination specimen.
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