|
MINERAL
NUMBER
|
MINERAL
NAME
|
LOCATION
|
DESCRIPTION
|
|
972 |
COBALTIAN-CALCITE |
Kambove, Shaba, Katanga Province, Zaire |
Wonderful colour! Lustrous pinkish-mauve crystals. Some manganese
oxides. (E) $7.00 |
|
976 |
CORNETITE |
Musonoi Mine Shaba, Katanga
Province, Zaire |
Very fine lustrous blue
prismatic crystals on matrix. 2 only (E) $5.00 |
|
992 |
DIOPTASE |
Tsumeb, Namibia |
Highly lustrous blocky green crystal groups. (E) $7.00 |
| 995
|
MAKATITE |
Aris Quarry, Windhoek,
Namibia |
New stock: Colourless to white long
thin tabular to acicular groups in vugs in syenitic rock. (E)
$7.00 |
| 979
|
MALACHITE |
Étoile de Congo Mine, Shaba, Katanga Province, Zaire |
SUPERB PIECES!
Botryoidal aggregates of lustrous dark green
crystals. (N, E) - $5.00 |
| 973
|
MANGANVESUVIANITE |
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa |
New
Mineral:Ca19Mn(Al,Mn)2Si18O69(OH)9
Am Min New Mineral Names 87:1731-1735 Brief
synopsis "Tetragonal, maroon red...transparent,
vitreous...brittle...prismatic... also rock-forming with Calcite,
Grossular and Xonotlite"
Groups and masses of lustrous deep red-brown to maroon to almost black, prismatic crystals in matrix. Please note that the mineral is extremely brittle and some of the peripheral crystals are damaged. However, the central crystals are
perfect. (E) $15, $20, $25. |
993
|
SCORODITE |
Stavoren Tin Mine, Limpopo South Africa. |
Druses of sub-adamantine pale blue to
colourless crystals on matrix and in vugs. (E) $6.00- |
|
990 |
TUPERSSUATSIAITE |
Aris Quarry, Windhoek,
Namibia |
Lustrous green to gold to
brown acicular crystals in vugs +/- Natrolite, Mn-Neptunite. $8.00 |
