Bultfonteinite
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
6.4 x 5.7 x 2.9 cm. Bultfonteinite is a rare hydrated calcium silicate, with many of the finest examples coming from the famous N'Chwaning Mines. This is an extremly rare and extremely rich, sculptural mounded plate of essentially solid lustrous, translucent, grayish lathes and needles of bultfonteinite crystals to about 6 mm. Excellent, aesthetic ...
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