Arsentsumebite

  

Arsentsumebite with azurite

  

Arsentsumebite pseudomorph after mimetite

  

Azurite with arsentsumebite

Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 2.5 cm (top/2nd row), 4.7 x 4 x 3.6 cm (3rd/4th row), 2.6 x 2 x 1.7 cm (bottom)

 

  

Arsentsumebite pseudomorph after mimetite

Origin: First Oxidation Zone, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia

Ex. Ed Rosenzweig collection

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.5 x 2.9 cm

 

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Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: micromount

 

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Matrix consisting mostly of bright yellowish-green arsentsumebite. This is hosting an area with numerous prismatic crystals of cerussite to 23 mm in length, these replaced by arsentsumebite(?). There are small dark bluish-black crystals of prismatic azurite to 7 mm in size scattered about.

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