Calcite on Mottramite from Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia
DESCRIPTION: | No. 70511
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Mineral: | Calcite on Mottramite
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Locality: | Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia |
Description: | Lustrous transparent colorless flattened rhombohedral calcite crystals to 16 mm on grass-green mottramite microcrystals coating an earlier generation of larger translucent dark olive-green mottramite crystals to 4 mm. |
Overall Size: | 4x4x3.5 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 16 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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