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[Jordi Fabre]

Super!

Thanks to share them Debbie, and thanks too for the complete info with all sizes and complete names of localities....

Jordi

[Gail]

Debbie, got some new stuff to add?????

[Luiz Menezes]

Debbie:

Thank you very much for posting these photos. The ephesite specimen is particularly interesting; I am not familiar with this mineral, I checked it on Mindat and it is a very rare Na-Li-mica; there are only 7 world localities listed for this mineral (among them 3 in South Africa, including the Postmasburg Manganese Fields, where your specimen came from); all 10 photos on Mindat came from South Africa (one from Wessels mine, the 9 others from Postmasburg), so it looks that the South African ephesites are the best in the world.

Great specimen.

Luiz

[Debbie Woolf]

Hi Gail

Didn't notice your post until today ! Thanks for the encouragement.

[Debbie Woolf]

Hello Luiz

Thank you for your comments, your thoughts are much appreciated. I have mixed feelings about this specimen, it's an alien to my collection! I'll explain: it's not from the original Ameib Farm collection I purchased whilst living in South Africa, nor is it a specimen that I selected and purchased. It was a swap with somebody from the USA and was supposed to be a South African Rhodochrosite ! Thanks to David Von Bargen I learned it was Ephesite.

[Debbie Woolf]

Thanks to Tobias Martin and contributors in this topic https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=1668 I have been able to change the identity from what I thought to be Hematite 10 years ago to Braunite-II a few months ago.