The whole specimen is azurite with crystals in “cavities”. Most less than 1cm but a couple bigger. The largest is about 15mm. Minor malachite replacing azurite, and a fair amount of duftite and some minor...
1917 Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 55mm.
A brown spherical aggregate of gerdtremmelite. Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia. FOV 2.5mm.
3237 Bright blue-green niedermayrite associated with covellite from the famous Tsumeb mine, Namibia. SEM-EDS & Raman confirmed. FOV 2mm.
White minrecordite with willemite and duftite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. SEM-EDS confirmed. 20×12×11mm.
3278 Tuperssuatsiaite, Analcime, Aegirine, Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek Rural, Namibia. FOV 20mm.
3275 Azurite, Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia. 20x22x15mm.
Well-terminated, slender tarnowitzite crystal with a length of 1.4 cm – freestanding on matrix rock and accompanied by some green, botryoidal malachite. Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. | Aragonite (Var: Tarnowitzite) with Malachite | Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto...
3252 Descloizite – Berg Aukas, Grootfontein, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia. 15x15x5mm.
Smithsonite, Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia. 60x55x30mm.
Several inter grown crystals of Wulfenite accompanied by Tsumcorite from the Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia | FOV 25mm – ~5mm in macro image.
Ludlockite on sulphide ore with colourless associated mineral (not analysed), most likely Zn-rich siderite, but can also be Stottite. The matrix is very iridescent, and most likely consists of a combination of Tennantite, Chalcocite and...
Boltwoodite & Calcite | Goanikontes, Arandis Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia | FOV 30mm |
Olivenite with Gartrellite | 30x20x10mm | Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia | No. 2482
Mimetite | Tsumcorp Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia. | 60x50x30mm | No. 2637
Arsentsumebite (Type Locality), minor Azurite | Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia. 25x20x15mm. No. 2477.
Cobaltoan Smithsonite from the Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia. 45x35x20mm. No. 2163.
Apatite after Tarbuttite with Hemimorphite | Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Oranjemund, Karas Region, Namibia. [42x30x25mm]
Jeremejevite | Mile 72, Cape Cross area, Arandis, Erongo region, Namibia. [13×1.5mm] No. 2325.
Descloizite from the Berg Aukas Mine (Berg Aukus Mine), Grootfontein, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia. [55x50x45mm]
