AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Namibia > Smithsonite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 60687 |
Mineral: | Smithsonite |
Locality: | Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia |
Description: | Superb thumbnail-sized specimen of two intersecting transparent pale-brown smithsonite crystals on fragment of white quartz coated with greenish mottramite. The smithsonite crystals are prismatic hexagonal form with scalenohedral terminations. |
Overall Size: | 28x20x16 mm |
Crystals: | micro to 23 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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