AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Namibia > Dioptase with Malachite on Calcite |
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DESCRIPTION: | No. 57737 |
Mineral: | Dioptase with Malachite on Calcite |
Locality: | Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia |
Description: | Lustrous transparent emerald-green dioptase crystals to 2 mm with fibrous green malachite crystals to 1 mm on translucent colorless rhombohedral calcite crystals to 2.5 mm. Some calcite crystals have dioptase crystal inclusions. Collected ca. 1995 |
Overall Size: | 3.5x3x2 cm |
Crystals: | 0.5-2.5 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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