Description
This is a fine piece with a matrix consisting of granular Hematite. It features wonderful, embedded reddish-brown crystals and masses of SUPER-RARE species Defernite. This excellent specimen comes from the famous Kombat Mine of Grootfontein at Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia. Defernite was found at Kombat during a short term some decades ago and then never again. This rare species was named in honor of Jacques Deferne, Curator of Mineralogy, Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Switzerland. Such items are seldem seen for sale and consequently they are objects of desire.