Namibia (纳米比亚)

Namibia is one of the world's most distinctive mineral specimen sources. Despite its small population, the country hosts two world-class collector localities of unique character: the legendary Tsumeb mine (the most species-diverse non-American locality globally) and the Erongo Mountain pegmatites/miarolitic granite (the world standard for gem aquamarine matrix specimens).

Major Namibian collector regions: Tsumeb Mine — over 240 species recorded, including world-best dioptase (electric-green prismatic crystals), azurite (blocky deep-blue), cerussite (twinned reticulated), smithsonite (multicolored botryoidal), mimetite, wulfenite, adamite (cuprian purple variety), leadhillite, linarite, libethenite, tennantite — many type-locality species; Erongo Mountains — sky-blue aquamarine crystals up to 30 cm on schorl/quartz/feldspar matrix (the genre standard), plus jeremejevite, hyalite opal, fluorite; Brandberg — gem amethyst and quartz; Klein Spitzkoppe — gem topaz; Rössing — uranium ores.

Tsumeb closed in the 1990s but specimens continue to circulate at top-tier prices. Erongo collector mining intensified in the 1990s and remains active.