Desmond Sacco is an authority when it comes to African as well as worldwide minerals. I met him many years ago at the Munich Show when it was in the city of Munich and Desmond was one of the stars of the show, buying the best that appeared there. 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, for the first time, Desmond Sacco has decided to sell some specimens from his collection, starting with miniatures and thumbnails and some cabinet specimens. We have been fortunate to acquire the first batch, consisting of material from Tsumeb and the Kalahari, and with these we can make a virtual trip to the mines and minerals guided by Desmond and his collecting criteria.
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Desmond does not have any labels for these specimens, so we can't include them. We know it would be better if he had a pedigree related with each specimen from his collection, but the specimens are "as they are," without any label, other than ours. Anyway, Desmond Sacco kindly revised this page, just to be sure that everything is accurate.
We hope you enjoy these samples, which represent an important part of mineralogy and mineral collecting in Africa.
Jordi Fabre
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