Smithsonite coating Cerussite (classic material)

Item Description

Tsumeb unquestionably is one of the world's most significant and important mineral localities. It produced a plethora of world-class minerals in its day, ranging from common species to exceedingly rare. This piece is a lovely display specimen featuring compressed rhombic crystals of golden-brown Smithsonite, which have covered single crystals and twinned groups of Cerussite on matrix. If you flip the piece over, you can see the bright reflective luster and relative gemmy smoky quality of the Cerussites. No major damage that I can see, and this particular style is hard to find from Tsumeb, so if you have a suite of minerals from this locality, its a cool esoteric piece that would check a box and fill a hole in our collection.
From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974.