Leiteite
Leiteite is a very rare zinc arsenite. It occurs as monoclinic, colorless to pale brown, transparent crystals in parallel growth, and more commonly as cleavable masses in the deeper "germanite ores" at the type and only locality: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. It is associated with chalcocite, tennantite, reinerite, schneiderhohnite, zincian stottite, zincroselite, tsumcorite, stranskiite, and smithsonite. Leiteite is named for Luis Antonio Bravo Teixeira-Leite of Pretoria, South Africa, who first discovered the mineral.
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- TSU20-72
- Leiteite (type locality)
- Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 6.1 x 3.1 x 1.0 cm
- $7,500.00
- JWL16-02b
- Stibioclaudetite (Type Locality)
- Zinc Pocket, 44th Level, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
- Thumbnail
- 1.7 x 1.2 x 0.5 cm
SOLD
- JWL16-02a
- Stibioclaudetite (Type Locality)
- Zinc Pocket, 44th Level, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
- Thumbnail
- 1.7 x 0.4 x 0.2 cm
SOLD
- MD-118200
- Stranskiite, Leiteite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Thumbnail
- 2.4 x 0.9 x 0.5 cm
SOLD
- MD-266990
- Ludlockite, Leiteite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 5.2 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm
SOLD
- MD-170552
- Ludlockite, Leiteite, Stottite, Germanite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 6.2 x 5.1 x 4.0 cm
SOLD
- MD-248019
- Leiteite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Toenail
- 3.0 x 2.4 x 1.2 cm
SOLD
- MD-181679
- Leiteite, Ludlockite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Thumbnail
- 1.9 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm
SOLD
- MD-167089
- Leiteite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Thumbnail
- 1.5 x 0.8 x 0.3 cm
SOLD
- ZR20
- Leiteite
- Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 7.7 x 1.0 x 0.4 cm
SOLD
- RARE08-2-77
- Ludlockite In Leiteite
- Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia (Type Locality)
- Thumbnail
- 2.8 x 1.8 x 1.2 cm
SOLD