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Minerals from Mexico


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Mineral sizes are designated by the following standard abbreviations which indicate the largest  dimension:
 tn (thumbnail) = 1" (2.5 cm), min (miniture) = 2" (5 cm), scab (small cabinet) = 3" (7.5cm), cab (cabinet) = 4" (10cm), and museum = 5" or larger (13 cm +)
 
     
     
Arsenopyrite Mina Noche Buena, Zacatecas, Mexico

Size available:
scab, $ 40

Pseudo-orthorhombic cystals with calcite and jamesonite on pyrite matrix
     
Aurichalcite 
on Limonite
From: Mexico - Ojuela Mine, Mapimi; San Pedro Corralitos; Santa Eulalia; New Mexico - Graphic Mine; Arizona - Chief Mine, Pima County and 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona

Sizes available: 
tn, $ 25 - $ 40
min, $ 25 - 60
scab, $ 30 - 100 

specimen shown here is the largest scab which measures
6 x 8 cm
     
Bornite on Native Silver San Martin Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico

Sizes available:
tn, $ 25
 min, $ 50
scab, $ 85


Bluish-black ore covering thin sheets of pure silver; very impressive specimen
s
     


Calcite, optical
Mexico

Size available:
tn, $ 15

Fine, clean, optically clean crystals chunks

one free with any $ 100 mineral order
     
Cinnabar Charcas, Mexico

Only one
 tn specimen
remains

$ 20

Small red cinnabar flecks in a white matrix
     
Graphite La Colorado, Sonora, Mexico

Sizes available:
tn, $ 16

Silver, metallic, specimens of graphite
     
Hemimorphite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico

Sizes available: 
min, $ 20 - 45

scab, $ 40- 100

Clear to white, radiating crystals (5 to 10mm) on a brown matrix
     
Here is a
portion of the  Hemimorphite
inventory
Select the piece
you want by its location in this picture
     
Jamesonite Mina Noche Buena, Zacatecas, Mexico

Size available:
min, $ 25 - 45
scab, $ 95
cab, $ 100


Silver acicular crystals on a pyrite matrix
     
Molybdenum ore Santa Ana de Yelora, Sonora, Mexico

Sizes available: 
 tn, $ 10
min, $ 25
scab, $ 40 - 50
cab, $ 90


Silver metallic specimens on native rock, collected in 1999
     
Smithsonite, Rosasite, and
Hemimorphite on a limonite matrix
Level 8, San Antonio El Grande Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sizes available:
tn, $ 10
min, $ 15 - 30


 Smithsonite (green) and/or rosasite (white) spheres with small hemimorphite crystals; some specimens have rosasite and no smithsonite
     
     
     
     
     
     

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Minerals listed by Locale of Origin

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