Natural Metallic Cobbed Purpurite Specimens x 12 From Erongo, Namibia

A NOTE FROM NICK 
A tray of 12 natural rare metallic chatoyant purple cobbed Purpurite on matrix specimens. We mined this material during 2025 and found nice pockets of good purple, but more recent mining efforts have not produced nice material like this again and we are not finding the good solid purple material very easily at all now.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 
Rare Purple Metallic Purpurite 
Purpurite is a stunningly beautiful Metallic Purple Manganese based Rare Gemstone with exquisite colour and flash. It is a Manganese-Iron Phosphate mineral with varying amounts of Iron. Purpurite often forms with Heterosite, FePO4.  We mine Purpurite ourselves in Namibia and it is quite a complicated procedure to get it to look as good as these do. Purpurite doesn't form crystals but rather occurs as a beautiful metallic chatoyancy in veins and along fracture plains of the host rock.

PRODUCT MINERALS 
Manganese Phosphate, Iron

PRODUCT FEATURES 
Orthorhombic, Chatoyant, Silky, Metallic, Matrix

PRODUCT COLOUR 
Purple, Silver

MOHS HARDNESS SCALE
4 to 5

PRODUCT DATA
Locality = Erongo, Namibia 
Grade = Very Good to A Grade
Size = 70 - 91 mm