carminite (w. beudantite and gartrellite)

Fans of acicular grey-red carminite crystals (to 2.5 mm), with bright red internal reflections intergrown with pseudo-hexagonal crystals of yellow-brown beudantite and blocky green microcrystals of gartrellite (exhibits 1 and 2).

The specimen is from the collection of Bill Pinch. It is accompanied by three labels, the earliest of which (Exhibit 3) is handwritten in German by Hans-Josef Lauenstein, "Dr. L.",  Tsumeb Corporation Limited mineralogist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The specimen subsequently belonged to British collector Warren Taylor (Exhibit 4), whose collection was later dispersed by Mark Wrigley of Thames Valley Minerals.

When Pinch learned that items from the Taylor Collection were available, he asked his friend Chris Amo to travel to London on his behalf to acquire certain specimens and this fine carminite specimen was at the top of his shopping list (Chris Amo, pers. comm. to M. Southwood, 2019). Pinch's label is shown as Exhibit 5.

The location in the mine is not recorded but this is a second oxidation zone paragenesis.

beudantite; gartrellite