Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Otavite

Views:
Watches:
SKY672911

Otavite

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.3 × 0.2 cm
Description

Sharp white crystals of the cadmium mineral otavite from Tsumeb, its type locality, where it has remained a rarity. EDS analyzed.

Ex.Don Phillips collection.

Otavite was labeled as RRR in Gebhard II Tsumeb book (extremely rare, single occurrence with less than 10 speciemns known). It was the first new mineral species discovered at Tsumeb (in 1906).

Cadmium minerals are extremely rare in Nature, since only 27 from more than 5400 known species are cadmium minerals !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Otavite

Formula: 
CdCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps