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Mineral Specimens with Smithsonite
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5.2 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm. This handsome Smithsonite specimen is loaded with several sharp, lustrous, gemmy, light yellow color rhombohedra measuring up to 1.7 cm which are curled around the matrix. Ex. Rob Smith Collection.
5.1 x 4.1 x 3.2 cm. This piece is a very nice miniature size specimen with a full coverage of greyish colored, translucent Smithsonite crystals on one side and a few scattered crystals on the back. The entire specimen is virtually crystallized all the way around, even though many of the crystals are micros. Ex. Rob Smith Collection.
8.4 x 7.8 x 4.2 cm. A beautiful multi-color Cuprian Smithsonite from Tsumeb that grades from a very vibrant blue-green hue into a golden-green/olive-green shade and ends with a golden-brown color on the other end. The crystals themselves are not especially large, but they have a gorgeous sugary sparkle and sit very well on a slab of Tennantite matrix. Ex. Rob Smith Collection.
13.0 x 8.1 x 7.8 cm. This Berg Aukas smithsonite specimen is comprised of dozens of fairly good sized (crystals up to 3.4 cm), whitish colored, pearly, stacked rhombohedra forming some partial “rosettes” on a slab of matrix. Ex. Rob Smith Collection.
This colorful smithsonite has a spectacular seafoam blue/green color speckled with bright flecks of iridesccent purple and yellow , unlike anything I have previously seen from Mexico! It has a "silky" look to it. The smithsonite is translucent when backlit. Also, note the interesting secondary deposit of another generation of smithsonite here and there atop the earlier botryoids. The thickness varies from .5-1 cm or more in the more bubbly growths. 15.1 x 9.2 x 6 cm
A gorgeous lavender smithsonite specimen with silky lustre and iridescent flecks of other colors running from blue to green, thoughout. VERY ATTRACTIVE! 11.7 x 10.6 x 7.8 cm
An amazing, iridescent, deep-blue smithsonite of incredible color - I've not seen another this good from this find or from anywhere else with quite this intense shade of blue! The rich blue smithsonite contains internal "rainbow" reflections of iridescence that result in glimpses of purple and pink highlights as you move the piece in the light. The smithsonite is translucent, and the thickness is about 1 cm or more throughout (of carving-grade lapidary quality!). It has silky lustre. Spectacular! 14 x 8.3 x 8.1 cm
This smithsonite specimen exhibits two generations of growth, with the top generation of rich blue botryoidal smithsonite being very similar to the best of the Kelly Mine in color and even in rich silky lustre! The blue smithsonite overlays an earlier generation of orange-brown smithsonite which, frankly, is the only clue that this isn't just in fact a really good Kelly Mine piece! It certainly fooled me on first glance, and this particular shade and style was very uncommon in the find (according to Benny Fenn, this is the best piece of the habit and he had kept it aside for his collection), making this a special piece. 12 x 10.3 x 9 cm
8.4 x 6.8 x 5.8 cm. This rather rare shade of smithsonite is often known as "turkey fat" smithsonite (as with the ones found in Arkansas), due to its similarity to the color of the fat of turkeys seen in rendering them for the dinner table. The color is due to cadmium from other places, though I cannot say the color from this locality is due to cadmium, or perhaps iron. This is a big specimen, very unusually 3-dimensional, with fingers and translucent ridges all over it. And, none of them bruised or contacted. It is an old piece from the Consie Prince dealer stock to Dave Stoudt collection, many years ago.
5.9 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm. This is a specimen of the distinctive "apple green" smithsonite the 79 Mine was famous for back in the day. It became almost impossible to get, and then over the past decade, a couple of miners went back into the old works and got a modest trickle of new specimens back into the market. I do not know if this specimen is from the original or newer finds.
9.5 x 7.0 x 4.8 cm. Gemmy, honey-colored hemimorphite crystals richly cover the upper portion of the matrix and drusy hemimorphite covers the rest on this classic, old-time specimen from the Granby Field, Missouri of the famed Tri-State District. The matrix is comprised of tan "dry-bone" smithsonite and massive hemimorphite. Not pretty to look at, but certainly very highly desirable, old-time material from this well-known locality. Ex George Feist Collection and according to the accompanying label dates to 1925-27.
6.1 x 4.8 x 3.5 cm. A rare, spectacular specimen of stalactitic smithsonite, featuring highly lustrous and translucent, sea-green "fingers" with lavender overtones in a very sculptural array. Touissit is known more for its azurites and cerussites than for its smithsonites, but it once turned out these really fine ones, in the green tones of color. They are, when they turn up on the market today, almost certainly mistaken for and sold as Tsumeb green smithsonites. However, I know someone who was present when these came out in the late 1980s and reassured me this unique style is indeed from Toussit. Ex. Dave Stoudt Collection.
3.9 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm. An excellent, aesthetic and uncommon Tsumeb miniature of extremely elongated, lustrous, translucent, colorless smithsonite scalenohedrons set on gossan matrix. Smithsonite rhombohedrons are much more common at Tsumeb, than these scalenohedrons. Crystals reach 2.1 cm on this piece. Highly representative of the smithsonite varietal and locale. Ex. Rob Smith Collection.
BRILLIANT, SPARKLY specimen with a thin druse of microcrystalline smithsonite atop the earlier generation of bright blue smithsonite, giving the whole piece a glazed look quite distinct from the usual Kelly piece! VERY COLORFUL, MORE SO IN PERSON 8.3 x 8.2 x 3.5 cm
3.2 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm. An aesthetic and classic pseudomorph from the Monte Cristo Mine at Rush, Arkansas. Cadmium-rich, yellow smithsonite has replaced very well defined, saddle-shaped dolomite crystals on this pristine, exquisite, old-time specimen from the Mullane Collection.
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