Dioptase with Cerussite

Item Description

Good Dioptase specimens are always in demand, and the pieces from the Kaokoveld Plateau are some of the best modern-day Dioptase specimens out there. This beautiful thumbnail specimen features a predominant, 1.3 cm, sharp, lustrous, fine emerald green, gemmy trigonal crystal of Dioptase with a few tiny Dioptase crystals sitting on smoky Cerussite twins. Good shape all around (though the Cerussite is contacted on the base), and the association is certainly rare for the locality.