Krieselite is a newly discovered naturally occurring mineral. Found in the Tsumeb mine in
Tsumeb
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Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
at an unknown date and unknown depth, the mineral was first cataloged in 1994. Following the acceptance as a new mineral by the
International Mineralogical Association in 2003, the material has been matched to unknown samples from the same mine in Namibia from 1972.
References
Germanium minerals
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 62
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