Famous mineral localities: the Erongo Mountains Namibia.(Cover story)

From: The Mineralogical Record | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Bahmann, Uli; Cairncross, Bruce | Copyright information

Minerals have been collected in the Erongo Mountains of Namibia for nearly 90 years, culminating in the 1999 discovery of some of the finest Namibian aquamarine, schorl and jeremejevite ever seen. Other aesthetic species have also been recovered, including fluorite, quartz, goethite pseudomorphs after siderite, and other important species such as cassiterite, ferberite, metanovacekite, uranophane and metazeunerite. Erongo is also the type locality for brabantite, described in 1980. ...

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