Beudantite (w. goethite, on quartz)

goethite; quartz

A quartz shard coloured with a thin dusting of goethite and encrusted with golden-yellow pseudo-hexagonal microcrystals of beudantite and supplanted by a second generation of larger, prismatic crystals (to 2 mm) of yellow-brown to chocolate-brown beudantite, some of which are intergrown to form nodular aggregates.

The specimen was purchased from a gift shop in Main Street / President Street in Tsumeb in early 1985.  There is no record of location in the mine but this is a second oxidation zone specimen and is probably from the same location as TSNB942 and TSNB656 which are attributed to 36 Level, West 12.

Compare TSNB656 and TSNB942