Smithsonite - Tsumeb Mine & Berg Aukas, Namibia Smithsonite from Namibia is one of our Top 100 Minerals .
Smithsonite is a favorite among mineral collectors because can occur in a wide variety of colors. The Tsumeb mine alone produces specimens of this mineral in many different shades and tints of green, yellow to brown, white and pink. Specimens with this distinctive pale, but vivid turquoise blue, due to copper impurities, are among the most sought after. Smithsonite is dominantly found as botryoidal crusts, but more coarsely crystalline druses and single crystals are also known, especially from the Tsumeb mine.
Considering the fact that smithsonite, a zinc carbonate of the calcite group, is one of the most common secondary zinc minerals, well-developed, aesthetic crystals are surprisingly rare. The mines at Tsumeb and Berg Aukas are perhaps not only the most prolific producers of fine crystals, but the world's finest specimens for the species as well.
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Manganoan Smithsonite with Wulfenite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
$9500
100mm x 60mm x 60mm
Smithsonite var. Cuprian Sithsonite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
$102 *
42mm x 60mm x 25mm
Smithsonite on Calcite
Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia
$500
69mm x 56mm x 37mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb mine, Otjikoto, Namibia
$375
100mm x 60mm x 50mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine | Tsumeb | Otjikoto Region | Namibia
$385 *
55mm x 41mm x 36mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb mine, Otjikoto, Namibia
$130
21mm x 20mm x 12mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb, Namibia
$1500
80mm x 65mm x 40mm
Smithsonite var. Cobaltoan Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
$1250
40mm x 20mm x 20mm
Smithsonite var. Cobaltian
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
$1450
40mm x 30mm x 20mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb mine, Otjikoto, Namibia
$115
20mm x 16mm x 4mm
Smithsonite (colbaltian)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
$3250
70mm x 50mm x 50mm
Cobaltian Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
$3500
80mm x 40mm x 40mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
$950
30mm x 10mm x 10mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb mine, Otjikoto, Namibia
$9500
95mm x 80mm x 50mm
Dioptase and Smithsonite on Calcite
Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia
$95
23mm x 19mm x 17mm
Cerussite, Smithsonite
Tsumeb, Namibia
$2000
90mm x 50mm x 45mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb mine, Otjikoto, Namibia
$180
30mm x 25mm x 20mm
Cerussite, smithsonite TSUMEB
Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
$285
65mm x 40mm x 35mm
Smithsonite
Tsumeb mine, Otjikoto, Namibia
$12000
165mm x 120mm x 55mm
Smithsonite with Descloizite
Berg Aukas mine, Grootfontein, Namibia
$500
110mm x 45mm x 25mm