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Manganvesuvianite - N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
(#MINS9212)
Very nice bright maroon/red prisms up to 5 mm richly cover this specimen. Likely from the 2002 original find.
Specimen weight:93 gr.
Crystal size:up to 5 mm
 Overall size:70mm x 50 mm x 25 mm
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Kutnohorite with Manganoan Calcite, N'Chwaning III mine, KMF, North Cape Province, South Africa
(#MINS9229)
Very nice kutnohorite crystals with pink fluorescent manganoan calcite.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,5 cm
Overall size:55mm x 30 mm x 20 mm
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Manganogrunerite - Razoare, Maramureș Co., Romania
(#MINS9214)
Specimen with fibrous Manganogrunerite xls richly set on matrix. A very rare magnesium-iron-manganese Amphibole.
Specimen weight:48 gr.
Crystal size:up to 4 mm long
Overall size:45mm x 42 mm x 30 mm
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Spessartine - Praborna Mine, Servette-Chuc mining complex, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#MINS9209)
Orange spessartine up to 3 mm on quartz matrix from this old alpine manganese deposit locality.
Specimen weight:54 gr.
Crystal size:up to 3 mm
Overall size:45mm x 30 mm x 37 mm
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Adamite (Var: Manganese-bearing Adamite) - Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
(#MINS9190)
Sample with Manganoan Adamite crystals up to 7 mm, purple in the terminations, very glossy. on limonitic matrix. Found in the 80's, it's in very good conditions.
Specimen weight:65 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:45mm x 44 mm x 37 mm
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Ephesite - Gloucester mine, Gloucester Farm, Postmasburg manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
(#MINS9172)
Beautiful and lustrous crystals of the very rare red mica, Ephesite. This specimen, from the famous Postmasburg finds on a farm in the early 1980s, has mica books (up to 3 mm across) showing the classic pseudo-hexagonal cross-section of mica.
Specimen weight:31 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm wide
Overall size:38mm x 30 mm x 18 mm
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Pyrosmalite-(Mn) - Takanosu mine, Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
(#MINS9169)
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) (manganpyrosmalite) crystals up to 3 mm.
Specimen weight:12 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm
Overall size:20mm x 18 mm x 20 mm
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Bixbyite - N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
(#MINS9158)
Group of very sharp Bixbyite crystals, of cubic habit, very bright to 4 mm in Manganese matrix.
Specimen weight:93 gr.
Crystal size:to 4 mm
Overall size:55mm x 35 mm x 18 mm
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Kutnohorite - Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#MINS9139)
Cluster of Kutnohorite xls up to 10 mm with intense pink in color from the famous Wessels Mine of South Africa.
Specimen weight:3 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:20mm x 11 mm x 12 mm
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Inesite - Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#MINS9131)
Specimen of this classic from the Kalahari manganese fields. It features rich sphere up to 10 mm and sprays crystals up to 7 mm, of deep salmon color on matrix.
Specimen weight:45 gr.
Crystal size:Up to mm 7 wide
Overall size:63mm x 40 mm x 20 mm
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Cafarsite - Wanniglescher, Cherbadung Binnatal, Wallis, Switzerland (Type Locality)
(#MINS9124)
Specimen with a very sharp cubic-octahedral crystals up to 6 mm wide aesthetically perched on matrix. Cafarsite is a rare calcium, titanium, iron, and manganese, arsenate.From the type locality.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 6 mm
Overall size:38mm x 21 mm x 8 mm
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Rhodochrosite - Uchucchacua mine - Oyon - Lima Deptm. - Peru
(#MINS9010)
Several red colored and brilliant crystals of rhodochrosite
up to 5 mm are spread over the manganese matrix.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm wide
Overall size:41mm x 23 mm x 31 mm
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Manganite - Manganese deposit, Ilfeld, Harztor, Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany (TL)
(#MINS8988)
Here we see sharp and lustrous crystals of steel gray Manganite xls up to 1,2 cm. a nice specimen with well developed and sharp edged crystals. They are excellent striated as well, mostly superbly terminated.
Specimen weight:80 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 12 mm
Overall size:53mm x 25 mm x 35 mm
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Manganvesuvianite - N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, KMF - S. Africa
(#MINS8977)
Very nice bright maroon/red prisms up to 6 mm that covers entirely this specimen. Likely from the 2002 original find.
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:up to 9 mm
Overall size:30mm x 25 mm x 18 mm
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Pyroxmangite - Molinello mine - Graveglia Valley - Ligury - Italy
(#MINS8959)
Specimen rich of Pyroxmangite xls up to 2 mm set on matrix. A rare manganese specie.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2 mm
Overall size:57mm x 45 mm x 20 mm
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Manganite - Moanda Mine, Moanda, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
(#BALD0781)
The Manganite is an uncommon mineral, but the one coming from Moanda mine is really rare. Here we have a sample with very shiny black crystals, that cover the entire surface of the sample. Rare and interesting, photographed under strong light.
Specimen weight:382 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:95mm x 65 mm x 40 mm
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Olmiite - N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (Type Locality)
(#MINS8791)
Specimen with orange-pink glassy crystals up to 5 mm set on calcite xls. From the type locality.
Specimen weight:63 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm
Overall size:55mm x 33 mm x 35 mm
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Caryopilite - Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
(#MINS8800)
Specimen of reddish-brown Caryopilite spherules up to 1 mm richly set on black manganese matrix.
Specimen weight:101 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1 mm
Overall size:57mm x 43 mm x 18 mm
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Mendipite - Torr Works Quarry (Merehead Quarry), Cranmore, Somerset, England, UK
(#MINS8756)
Pale yellow to pale pink columnar aggregates of mendipite, on a matrix consisting of dark manganese oxides.
Rare!
Specimen weight:43 gr.
Crystal size:1,6 cm long
Overall size:40mm x 25 mm x 30 mm
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Bultfonteinite with Olmiite - N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
(#BALD0739)
Silky tufts of Bultfonteinite up to 8 mm cover a side of the sample, accompanied by beige little Olmiite's crystals that are prevailing on the opposite side. Rare mineral, difficult to find on the market.
Specimen weight:92 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm
Overall size:76mm x 53 mm x 25 mm
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Jacobsite - Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
(#MINS8560)
Blackish, very lustrous Jacobsite in matrix up to 1 mm. Rare sample with sharp, well defined crystals on matrix with garnets in association.
Specimen weight:6 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1 mm
Overall size:26mm x 17 mm x 12 mm
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Vanadinite - Vein 12, Jbel Tadaout, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#MINS8541)
A very aesthetic and classy Moroccan specimen of red-orange vanadinite barrels to 10 x 9 mm wide set on contrasting, matte-black, botryoidal crust of either goethite or manganese oxides.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 x 9 mm
Overall size:40mm x 37 mm x 18 mm
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Olmiite - N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
(#BALD0722)
Nice group of Olmiite's crystals, with beige color, thickly grown, very shiny.
Specimen weight:153 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:79mm x 46 mm x 47 mm
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Olmiite with Bultfonteinite - N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
(#BALD0716)
Gorgeous Olmiite's crystals up to 16 mm, with a nice amber color, well formed and glossy, are accompanied by sprays of acicular, pure white Bultfonteinite's crystals, with a nice aesthetic effect. Very aesthetic sample.
Specimen weight:283 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 16 mm
Overall size:13mm x 78 mm x 27 mm
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Yoshimruraite - Taguchi mine, Shitara, Kitashitara County, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
(#FERR1530)
A reference piece with small orange-brown crystals of yoshimuraite; the very rare barium manganese titanium silicate phosphate and associated with rhodonite. This is from an old mine, now abandoned since a long time.
Specimen weight:47 gr.
Crystal size:.
Overall size:55mm x 20 mm x 25 mm
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Hausmannite on Andradite - N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#FERR1516)
Fine sample featuring a group of black, lustruous octhahedra of Hausmannite in excellent shape.
The association with minor orange andradite is a trademark for this famous locality.
Specimen weight:105 gr.
Crystal size:group 1 cm
Overall size:62mm x 35 mm x 37 mm
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Ettringite, Haussmannite, Gaudefroyite - N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#FERR1505)
Sample with association of hexagonal prismatic crystals of yellowish Ettringite, black octahedra of very bright Haussmannite, and elongated fibrous crystals of black Gaudefroyite.
All on a reddish matrix.
A classic South African combo piece.
Specimen weight:48 gr.
Crystal size:to 2 cm
Overall size:50mm x 28 mm x 40 mm
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Manganite - Manganese deposit, Ilfeld, Harztor, Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany
(#BALD0663)
Nice sample of Manganite, dating back to the end of 1800, with well terminated crystals and metallic luster. A classic of mineralogy, coming from the type locality.
Specimen weight:692 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 13 mm
Overall size:81mm x 56 mm x 62 mm
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Hausmannite ps. after manganite - Ilfeld - Nordhausen - Hartz Mts - Thuringia - Germany
(#GM18087)
Several black and brilliant crystals of hausmannite ps. after manganite are visible over the surface of this specimen.
Specimen weight:200 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 3
Overall size:57mm x 42 mm x 44 mm
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Ettringite - N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#BALD0589)
Group of hexagonal Ettringite's crystals, the biggest is 20 mm. With some microcrystals of Hematite and Andradite.
Specimen weight:176 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 20 mm
Overall size:57mm x 45 mm x 45 mm
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Hausmannite on Hematite - N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#FERR1024)
Showy small floating specimen featuring some black Haussmannite octahedra, grown over a lustruorus iron black Hematite xl.
Very aesthetic, though small specimen from a world known locale.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:0,7 cm
Overall size:22mm x 17 mm x 10 mm
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