Never Seen This Before

A quick glance at this piece and it looks like a good pink cobaltoan smithsonite specimen from Tsumeb, but when you check more closely the habit and the matrix is very different; this is because it has originated from Berg Aukus!

Quite a revelation as are quite a few other Berg Aukus pieces listed in the Kalahari Classics auction now online, link below.

Many thanks to Jill and Dieter at Kalahari Classics for making the selection available, a very informative little auction!