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MD-215573
Olmiite
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Miniature, 4.9 x 4.3 x 3.6 cm
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An attractive matrix specimen hosting a 2-cm pink-beige colored spherical crystal cluster of the mineral formerly known as poldervaartite... but now recognized to be a new species, Olmiite. They are best of species (and only ones of species), and this is from the type find of several years ago. Ex. Charlie Key.