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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM


DESMOND SACCO COLLECTION


Desmond Sacco is an authority on African as well as worldwide minerals. I met him many years ago at the Munich Show when it was still in the center of Munich and Desmond was one of the stars of the show, buying the best that appeared. His collection was legendary, not only because of the wonders we knew he would certainly have acquired given his position in the mines of the Kalahari Manganese Field (Hotazel, Wessels, N'Chwaning...) and his proximity to the legendary Tsumeb, but also because we saw what he was buying, and thus got an idea of the quality of his collection.

Many years and many mineral Munich shows have now passed and Desmond Sacco has decided to sell some specimens from his collection. We have been fortunate to acquire an important part of this material and with these we can make a virtual trip to the mines and minerals guided by Desmond and his collecting criteria. Here we have the pieces which are still available. To see those that have already been sold you can visit the "Desmond Sacco" page in Reference Specimens

We hope you enjoy these samples, which represent an important part of mineralogy and mineral collecting in Africa.

Jordi Fabre


Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Schorl and Albite
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Schorl and Albite. Front
Front
Beryl (variety aquamarine) with Schorl and Albite. Side
Side
 

MV91AI5: Very well defined Beryl (aquamarine variety) crystals. They have excellent terminations, are transparent and bright, have a very well defined and uniform sky blue color and are on an Albite matrix with very bright Schorl crystals. Of high quality as is usual with samples from the Desmond Sacco collection.
Erongo Mountain, Usakos, Erongo Region  Namibia (±2016)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.87” × 1.73” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.24”

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection

Albite minor fluorescence short UV
Tarbuttite with Hydroxylapatite and Hemimorphite
 

MA16AI5: Fanlike growths of acicular Hydroxylapatite and Hemimorphite micro-crystals on Tarbuttite crystals, distinguishable by its green color. Of high quality, as is usual with samples from the Desmond Sacco collection.
Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, ǁKaras Region  Namibia (2016)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.2 × 4.6 cm = 2.52” × 2.05” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection
Tarbuttite with Hydroxylapatite and Hemimorphite. Tarbuttite with Hydroxylapatite and Hemimorphite.
Azurite with Cerussite and Calcite
Azurite with Cerussite and Calcite. Front
Front
Azurite with Cerussite and Calcite. Side
Side
Azurite with Cerussite and Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MH46AK0: Group of Azurite crystals on matrix with a flat prismatic habit, bright, translucent, a deep color and partially covered by small whitish crystals of Cerussite.
A classic of Tsumeb, from the Desmond Sacco collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Easter Pocket, 8 level, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia (1994)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5 × 5.9 cm = 2.28” × 1.97” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.02” × 0.83”

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection
Azurite with Cerussite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Azurite with Cerussite
 

MT88AK4: Very sharp Azurite crystals, deep blue with very bright reflections, partially covered by transparent or white Cerussite crystals that form cyclic twins, and also with green microcrystals of Duftite.
A great Tsumeb classic from the Desmond Sacco collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 58 of the 2019/01 edition.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia (±1980)

Specimen size: 10 × 7.8 × 5 cm = 3.94” × 3.07” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 3 cm = 2.80” × 1.18”

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection
Azurite with Cerussite. Front
Front
Azurite with Cerussite. Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén
Azurite with Cerussite. Azurite with Cerussite.
Cerussite
Cerussite. Front
Front
Cerussite. Rear
Rear
 

TN27S1: Group of crystals forming multiple cyclic twins. They are clear translucent, very bright and on matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia (±1987)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm = 1.81” × 1.54” × 1.38”

Minor fluorescence short UV

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection
Cerussite
 

TE98AC2: Aggregate of cyclic twins with very sharp tabular Cerussite crystals that are transparent, very bright and on a Galena matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia (±1985)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 4 × 3.2 cm = 2.72” × 1.57” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.59” × 0.59”

Minor fluorescence short UV

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection
Cerussite. Cerussite.
Malachite after Azurite
Malachite after Azurite. Front
Front
Malachite after Azurite. Side
Side
 

TX96Q3: A growth of two divergent crystals, one of them doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges, pseudomorphic after Azurite and with surface silky fibrous recrystallizations.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 1.06” × 0.71” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.47”

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection
Manganite
 

TP27AL0: Spheroidal growth of platy Manganite crystals, very sharp and with great luster.
The specimen is from the Desmond Sacco collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (2002)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.81” × 1.54” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.87”

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection
Manganite. Manganite.
Manganite
Manganite. Manganite.
 

VG97AE5: Druse of Manganite crystals with a thin flattened prismatic shape, some of them doubly terminated, with parallel growths, extraordinarily bright and on matrix.
The sample is from the Desmond Sacco collection, who's label we’ll send to the buyer.
N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa (±1952)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.13” × 1.34” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.12” × 0.04”

With handwritten label from the Desmond Sacco Collection


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