Mineral: Tarbuttite with Smithsonite
Locality: Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
Dimensions: 9.7 × 6.3 × 4.8 cm

Description: Fan-like sprays of Tarbuttite crystals with very acute terminations, very well defined faces and edges and on matrix, with blue-violet botryoidal Smithsonite. The sample, very esthetic and of a great quality for the species, is from the Desmond Sacco collection. This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference for the Tarbuttite species in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 04/2021, page 11 as well as in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2018, page 105

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