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Dioptase, Calcite, Bayldonite from Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia

 
Dioptase, Calcite, Bayldonite from Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia

Dioptase, Calcite, Bayldonite from Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia

Dioptase, Calcite, Bayldonite from Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia

Dioptase, Calcite, Bayldonite from Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia

Dioptase, Calcite, Bayldonite from Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Dioptase, Calcite, Bayldonite from Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia

DESCRIPTION:No. 73875
Mineral:Dioptase, Calcite, Bayldonite
Locality:Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia
Description:Lustrous transparent prismatic bluish-green dioptase crystals to 1 mm on, and included within, transparent colorless rhombohedral calcite crystals to 6 mm with greenish-yellow bayldonite microcrystals coating select faces of the calcite. Collected ca. 1980
Overall Size:4.5x3.5x2.5 cm
Crystals:micro to 6 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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