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MS Book and Mineral Company 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 +) |
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| Arsenopyrite |
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Mina
Noche Buena, Zacatecas, Mexico Size available: scab, $ 40 Pseudo-orthorhombic cystals with calcite and jamesonite on pyrite matrix |
| Aurichalcite on Limonite |
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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 |
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San
Martin Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico Sizes available: tn, $ 25 min, $ 50 scab, $ 85 Bluish-black ore covering thin sheets of pure silver; very impressive specimens |
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Calcite, optical |
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Mexico Size available: tn, $ 15 Fine, clean, optically clean crystals chunks one free with any $ 100 mineral order |
| Cinnabar |
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Charcas, Mexico Only one tn specimen remains $ 20 Small red cinnabar flecks in a white matrix |
| Graphite |
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La Colorado, Sonora, Mexico Sizes available: tn, $ 16 Silver, metallic, specimens of graphite |
| Hemimorphite |
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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 |
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Select the piece you want by its location in this picture |
| Jamesonite |
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Mina Noche Buena, Zacatecas, Mexico Size available: min, $ 25 - 45 scab, $ 95 cab, $ 100 Silver acicular crystals on a pyrite matrix |
| Molybdenum ore |
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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 |
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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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