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Mexican Minerals October 30, 2016 · 22 specimens |
D100 - Cuprian Austinite $500 available
Mina Oujela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Small Cabinet - 7.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm
Bright green, translucent masses of Cuprian Austinite on Limonite matrix. Largest group is 3.5 cm across! Excellent color.
D101 - Tellurite sold
Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Miniature - 3.5 x 3 x 1.7 cm
Very rich sample with rare Tellurite crystals on all sides of specimen. Main display area has an area 2.5cm wide of solid Tellurite crytals.
D103 - Smithsonite after Calcite sold
Mina Oujela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Small Cabinet - 7.5 x 5 x 3.5 cm
Sparkling red to yellow Smithsonite casts over previous, now gone Calcite crystals. Solid and sturdy specimen.
D104 - Wulfenite sold
Mina Oujela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Thumbnail - 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm
Yellow Wulfenite crystals on Limonite.
D106 - Cerussite on Mimetite sold
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Miniature - 4.2 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
Bright yellow botryoidal Mimetite with a white Cerussite crystal set right in the middle.
D107 - Hemimorphite sold
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Thumbnail - 3 x 2 x 2 cm
Spherical cluster of Hemimorphite grown around thin sheet of Limonite
D108 - Copper in Calcite sold
La Bufa Mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico
Miniature - 3.5 x 3 x 3.0 cm
Copper on and in transparent double-terminated Calcite crystals.
D109 - Calcite on Polybasite sold
Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico
Thumbnail - 2.6 x 1.8 x 1.3 cm
Wide single Polybasite crystal coated on backside and along top edge with Calcite crystals
D110 - Pyrargyrite sold
Mina El Solar ,Veta Chicharrones, 5th level, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico
Thumbnail - 2.2 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm
Pyrargyrite crystal cluster with Calcite.
D112 - Pearcite with Calcite sold
Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico
Thumbnail - 3 x 2.2 x 2 cm
Pearcite crystals to 8mm intergrown with Calcite crystals
D113 - Stephanite sold
Mina El Solar ,Veta Chicharrones, 5th level, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico
Thumbnail - 2.8 x 2 x 1.5 cm
Bright metallic 1.2cm Stephanite crystal on Quartz. Found in 1988.
D114 - Rhodochrosite sold
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Thumbnail - 2.6 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm
Rare and aesthetic specimen of bright pink Rhodochrosite crystals attached to the tip a long single Rhodochrosite or Quartz crystal that has been pseudomorphed. There are also small transparent Fluorite crystals near the base. This is a 'one off' specimen I bought from a Mexican miner years ago and haven't seen other like it. Pristine and undamaged.
D116 - Feldspar var. 'Moonstone' sold
Patricia Mine, Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico
Miniature - 3.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Cluster of Feldspar crystals with an irridescent blue on the narrow faces. Very few localities produce true moonstone crystals.
D120 - Wulfenite sold
Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Small Cabinet - 9 x 4.5 x 3 cm
Lustrous orange Wulfenite crystals on Calcite. There is damage to one crystal on the far right, otherwise all are perfect and beautiful.
D121 - Quartz sold
Piedras Verdes Mine, Urique, Chihuahua, Mexico
Small Cabinet - 8 x 5 x 5 cm
Quartz crystals partially colored green by Chlorite with a 3cm Japan'law twin dispalyed perfectly in the center of the specimen.
D122 - Legrandite sold
Mina Oujela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Thumbnail - 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 cm
Three crystals of Legrandite on Limonite matrix. Main crystal is an elegant, elongated double-terminated 'bow-tie' of 1.7cm. Spectacular!
D123 - Legrandite sold
Mina Oujela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Thumbnail - 1.5 x 0.5 x 0.4 cm
Bright golden, gemmy single spray of Legrandite. Backside of termination intergrew into Limonite, but the front tip has good termination faces.
D125 - Calcite on Quartz sold
Piedras Verdes Mine, Urique, Chihuahua, Mexico
Small Cabinet - 8 x 4 x 4 cm
Floater specimen of a double-terminated Chlorite included Quartz crystals with attached double-terminated white Calcite crystals
D127 - Boleite sold
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja, Mexico
Thumbnail - 2.9 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
7mm crystal of rare Boleite in matrix.
D128 - Fluorite $400 available
Mina Oujela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature - 5 x 3 x 2.8 cm
Transparent purple/blue crystals from recent finds. Glass-like crystals with one tiny crystal of Galena on the bottom.
D129 - Austinite sold
Mina Oujela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Thumbnail - 3 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
Glistening single 'gumdrop' of Austinite, 1.5cm wide, on Limonite.
D130 - Wulfenite sold
Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Miniature - 3.7 x 2 x 2 cm
Lustrous blocky orange Wulfenite crystals on Calcite. Undamged crystals to 1.7cm.