AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Namibia > Dioptase on Calcite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 78427 |
Mineral: | Dioptase on Calcite |
Locality: | Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia |
Description: | Unusually large lustrous transparent emerald-green dioptase crystals to 19 mm(!) on lustrous transparent pale-green rhombohedral calcite crystals to 1 mm. The top face of the largest dioptase crystal has an impression where it intersected another crystal Ex. Robert Scott (Ypsilanti, Michigan) collection #197 |
Overall Size: | 5.5x5x3 cm |
Crystals: | 1-19 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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