Namibite

Origin: Pucher Shaft, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Picture size: 1.3 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

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Small ball-shaped aggregates and smears with beyerite on matrix

Origin: Jachymov (St. Joachimsthal), Bohema, Czech Republic

Sample size: micromount

 

Pistache green platy crystals on limonite

Origin: Copperopolis district, Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: 2.2 x 2.5 cm

 

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Dark green crystal grain exposed inside a larger beyerite crystal grain. The beyerite crystal is 4 mm long.

  

Minute crystals to about 0.3 mm associated with balls of lighter green beyerite.

Origin: Copper Claim, Khorixas, Namibia (type locality)

Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (top), 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Khorixas, Damaraland district, Namibia (type locality)

Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm

 

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An open face on matrix is covered with a shallow druze of quartz with chrysocolla over which there are small pistachio green spherules of eulytite and smaller dark green namibite. Also present are some smaller brownish microcrystals of (susp) hechtsbergite.

Origin: Hechtsberg Quarry, Black Forest, Germany

Ex. Mark Wrigley collection

Sample size: 4.4 x 4 x 2.6 cm

 

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