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Mineral Specimens with Smithsonite
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Intrepid miners have gone back into the old works at the classic Choix locality and begun pulling out a limited number of smithsonite specimens in shades of pink, blue and lavender! This one is FAR PRETTIER IN PERSON! The camera could not pick up the subtly beautiful hues, which grade from a pastel pink to light lavender; in the photos it all looks like a dull lavender-gray, but it is NOT in person, we assure you! Fine pearly, shimmering luster, too. 7.4 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm
miners have gone back into the old works at the classic Choix locality and begun pulling out a limited number of smithsonite specimens in shades of pink, blue and lavender! This is a BIG, exceptionally 3-dimensional specimen with a rolling form, covered with pretty pink botryoidal smithsonite with a pearly, shimmering luster! 13.9 x 8.4 x 6.5 cm
Some intrepid miners have gone back into the old works at the classic Choix locality and begun pulling out a limited number of smithsonite specimens in shades of pink, blue and lavender! This one is actually prettier in person than the pics show; it is a pale lavender/pink, not as washed-out as the pics indicate, and it has a nice shimmering luster. 7.5 x 5.3 x 3.8 cm
You couldn''t ask for a much prettier smithsonite thumber than this botryoidal, translucent golden specimen out of the Nasser collection - from Touissit. It really shimmers and shines! 2.5 x 2.0 x 1.4 cm
A showy and excellent specimen of sparkly, glassy, pink cobaltoan smithsonite rhombs on nicely contrasting black sulfide matrix from Tsumeb. 3.5 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm
Some intrepid miners have gone back into the old works at the classic Choix locality and begun pulling out a limited number of smithsonite specimens in shades of pink, blue and lavender!This specimen is unique amongst the colors I have seen come out – a sort of sea-foam green. 7.2 x 6.3 x 3.2 cm
These fairly recent groups are found in several different colors, but none more beautiful than the intense pink color exhibited by this specimen. THIS IS TOP QUALITY! The botryoids are extremely lustrous, translucent, and reach 2.0 cm across. Both vivid and bright! 8.8 x 4.9 x 4.4 cm
This is one of the nicest aurichalcite specimens I have seen from Kelly. It is composed of a series of parallel growth, stalactitic botryoids, to 2.0 cm in length, with luster, and a wonderful rich, blue green color. The characteristic defining the location, is the single, lustrous, translucent, sky blue, rice grain crystal of smithsonite, measuring .6 cm across. Super! 5.3 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm
This is a competition quality smithsonite specimen for several reasons. On one side are botryoids and rice grain crystals that are lustrous, translucent, and have the most incredible pastel kelly blue color. The largest botryoid reaches 2.0 cm across. On the back side is a stalk of smithsonite along with bow ties that links the rice grains together. These even display apparent fortification-like growth, similar to agates. All in all, this is a superb and aesthetic specimen! It is not your usual flat plate! 5.1 x 2.7 x 1.4 cm
On a matrix of silicified, white, limestone, is emplaced a crust of very lustrous, translucent, bright apple green, botryoids of cupro-smithsonite, to 1.2 cm across. The high luster and glowing color make this specimen elegant. The specimen’s quality and rarity make it valuable but it happens also to be quite beautiful and green smithsonite is very rare in the world, and from the USA in particular. Found in the late 1980s 6.2 x 4.7 x 3.8 cm
I must admit that most of the botryoidal pink smithsonite from Sinaloa leaves me generally unimpressed. Not so for this very aesthetic specimen which features many discrete spherical crystal aggregates of lustrous, translucent, rich pink, smithsonite, to 1.2 cm across, which contrasts beautifully with the black matrix. The crystals are there, if rounded. It is not botryoidal as you first think looking at it. It is VERY unusual and comes from a smaller mine, nearby to the more productive Choix Mine, from which we see more typical flat plates of smithsonite. This is definitely a different beast! Formerly in the world class collection of Martin Zinn. 5.7 x 5.3 x 2.5 cm
Botryoidal, lustrous, translucent, yellowish-green, smithsonite has encrusted a dark reddish-brown limonite matrix. I particularly like the 3.5 cm in length, stalactitic encrustation. A very unusual color for Mexico, and also I am not familiar with other smithsonite from this mine coming to market. From the world class collection of Martin Zinn. 6.1 x 4.5 x 4.6 cm
Intrepid miners have gone back into the old works at Choix, and have been pulling out limited quantities of smithsonite in luscious pinks, blues and lavenders. This represents the pink shade at its best (actually deeper and better in person), with wonderful shimmering, pearly luster. 5.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm
This is one of the best specimens I have seen of botryoidal, pastel yellow, highly lustrous, greenockite-included smithsonite from Arkansas. It has a SILKY sheen or lustre to it, that just sets it apart from all others. This style, known locally as “turkey fat ore” is usually seen in the form of smaller botryoids or as pseudomorphs after dolomite; and not often as such a rich botryoidal crust. Unusually fine! The colour of your specimen is caused by greenockite inclusions, i.e. it is a mixture of smithsonite and greencockite, but NOT a cadmian smithsonite. Unfortunately, the term "cadmian smithsonite" is widely applied to these materials in the mineral market. Nevertheless, this is totally wrong. 6 x 5.7 x 1.6 cm
BEAUTIFUL! In a limonite matrix vug, is nestled botryoidal, pastel blue-green, frosted and lustrous, translucent, smithsonsite, to .7 cm across. A UTAH smithsonite that can hold its own with, and rival, that from Mexico or New Mexico?! Who woulda thought!?
7.1 x 6.1 x 3.7 cm
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