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Tsumeb – June 2025
Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 06.27.2025 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve added a new Tsumeb update (click here) with super specimens including dioptase, mimetite, wulfenite, anglesite, azurite, zincolivenite and more.

Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 4.6 cm

Close-up of the above specimen – field of view 2.2 cm

Wulfenite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 6.2 cm

Close-up of above specimen – field of view 2.5 cm

Anglesite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – field of view 3.5 cm

Mimetite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 2.5 cm

Mimetite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – field of view 2.5 cm

Mimetite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 5.5 cm

Mimetite on smithsonite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 7.1 cm

Zincolivenite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – field of view 2.4 cm

Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – fielf of view 4.3 cm

Aragonite var. Tarnowitzite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 3.7 cm

Willemite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia

Arsentsumebite pseudomorph after mimetite with Cerussite,
Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – field of view 2.3 cm

Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 2.2 cm

Azurite and malachite,  Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 2.4 cm

Azurite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 2.4 cm

Smithsonite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – field of view 2.7 cm

Wulfenite on calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 2.6 cm

Copper with cuprite on calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 2.6 cm

Zincolivenite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Field of view 2.0 cm

Anglesite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 3.7 cm