Olmiite (Type Locality)

N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
Toenail, 2.9 x 2.8 x 2.0 cm
Start Time: 07/01/2016 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 07/07/2016 6:33:13 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

An aesthetic doublet of two olmiite "balls" is jauntily perched on a sparing ball of matrix on this fine thumbnail from the 2009 find. Densely intergrown, glassy, translucent rose-pink rhombs comprise the "balls". The famous N'Chwaning II Mine is the Type Locality of this rare silicate. This is from a pocket collected by Paul Balayer with permission in the mines.

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