Initial Tucson 2008 Update

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MA58K9: In this specimen Aurichalcite forms fan-shaped acicular groups, well defined and an excellent color, with Calcite crystals on a Limonite matrix. From a classic North American locality.
79 Mine, Hayden, Gila County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1.5 × 1.6 cm

HF61K9: Fanlike acicular-fibrous crystal groups. The color of these crystals varies between pure white blue and the creamy white. The locality and the specimen can be considered to be classics.
Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7 × 5 cm

EK14K9: The group has a round aspect due to extremely curved crystal faces and edges. Deep green color with crystals well positioned on the matrix.
Choix, Sinaloa  Mexico (2007)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.7 × 2.7 cm

EG36K9: Botryoidal aggregates on matrix. The rounded forms come from extremely curved crystals. Specimen shows an intense green bluish color.
Choix, Sinaloa  Mexico (2007)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.4 × 3.9 cm

TB27K9: Tabular crystals with well defined faces and edges, with deep reddish-orange color and good luster. On Limonite matrix.
Mina Ahumada, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.9 × 4.2 cm

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm

EQ12K9: Spheroidal groups of fan-shaped crystals with defined terminations and good color and luster. They sharply contrast with the reddish Limonite matrix.
Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Municipio de Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.6 × 2.4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.1 cm

TF37K9: Spheroidal groups of fan-shaped and bow-tie growths of crystals. The color and luster are extraordinary, contrasting with the reddish Limonite matrix.
Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Municipio de Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 13 × 10 × 6.5 cm

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.1 cm

TE47K9: Crystals form centered fan-shaped groups, with perfect terminations and excellent color and luster, on Limonite matrix.
Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Municipio de Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.4 × 2.1 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.1 cm

TL87K9: Crystals with good brilliance and well defined faces and edges. Intense color and luster in the terminal faces. On matrix, with Limonite.
Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Municipio de Mapimí, Durango  Mexico

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.7 × 2.9 cm

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.2 cm

NB16K9: Vug of sword-shaped Celestine crystals, with excellent luster and sky-blue color, coated by small white creamy hedgehoglike Calcite crystals. The specimen is a recent and exceptional find in the same locality as old findings, in Torà, but the new specimen’s quality is much better.
Torà, La Segarra, Lleida  Spain (09-11/2007)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.2 × 5 cm

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 0.5 cm

NP16K9: Vug of sword-shaped Celestine crystals, with excellent brilliance and sky-blue color, coated by small white creamy hedgehoglike Calcite crystals. The specimen is a recent and exceptional find in the same locality as old findings, in Torà, but the new specimen’s quality is much better.
Torà, La Segarra, Lleida  Spain (09/11/2007)

Specimen size: 9 × 6.5 × 7.5 cm

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.5 cm

NB9K9: Group of very well defined cubic crystals of Galena, partially covered by globular aggregates of brown Siderite, white Dolomite and Chalcopyrite. Today the Troya Mine is flooded and collapsed.
Mina Troya, Mutiloa, Gipuzkoa  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.2 × 3 cm

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm

NA12K9: Two well defined cubic Galena crystals, with a good luster, partially covered by white Dolomite crystals and a small brown rhombohedral Siderite crystal on the top, and with Chalcopyrite on the back side. Today the Troya Mine is flooded and collapsed.
Mina Troya, Mutiloa, Gipuzkoa  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.9 cm

NF14K9: Doubly terminated Quartz crystal with a short prism. Very good luster. It shows dissolution forms and several hydrocarbon inclusions. A curious specimen from a mine known for its colorless Fluorite.
Zona intermedia, Mina Emilio, El Fito, Loroñe, Asturias  Spain (09-11/2004)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.5 × 5 cm

VA12K9: Crystals with predominant rhombohedral faces, giving it an equidimensional habit. On a matrix of cubic yellow Fluorite crystals and sky-blue laminar Barite crystals.
Mina Moscona, Solís, Corvera, Asturias  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 8 × 5 cm

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm

VZ36K9: Scalenohedral Calcite crystal, very brilliant, color varies between colorless and white. On a group of blue zoned laminar Barite crystals.
Mina Moscona, Solís, Corvera, Asturias  Spain (1990-2000)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 6.6 × 4.1 cm

Main crystal size: 6 × 4.3 cm

NQ6K9: Double twin formed by three nearly transparent and color zoned rhombohedrons of Dolomite. With small Calcite crystals on matrix.
Cantera Azkarate, Eugui, Navarra  Spain (04-05/2007)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 6.3 × 4.5 cm

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.4 cm

NP46K9: Well defined and complete twin of two nearly transparent rhombohedrons of Dolomite. The specimen shows color zonations. With small Calcite crystals on matrix.
Cantera Azkarate, Eugui, Navarra  Spain (04-05/2007)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.5 × 9.1 cm

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2 cm

NA7K9: Group of sharp tabular crystals, with some Pyrite inclusions, also plentiful on matrix.
Los Belones (Campo de Golf), Cartagena, Murcia  Spain

Specimen size: 7.9 × 6.9 × 4.7 cm

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1.7 cm

EE9K9: In this specimen two clearly different crystal growth phases coexist. In the first one the Quartz crystal has a very deep smoky color, and covering this primary crystal is a second growth phase of milky Quartz.
Massabé Quarry, Sils, La Selva, Girona  Spain (2005)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.6 × 2.9 cm

TK60K9: Well defined and short crystals, with excellent color and luster on a surface of globular Chrysocolla, on matrix.
Cantera San Valentín, La Unión, Murcia  Spain (1982-1984)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 5.5 × 4.2 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm

TM60K9: Groups of small but well defined scalenohedral crystals, with brownish color and excellent luster that strongly contrast with Limonite matrix.
Cantera San Valentín, La Unión, Murcia  Spain (1982-1984)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.4 × 4.6 cm

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm

TZ60K9: Groups of small but well defined scalenohedral crystals, with brownish color and excellent luster, that strongly contrast with Limonite matrix.
Cantera San Valentín, La Unión, Murcia  Spain (1982-1984)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 5.4 × 5.9 cm

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm

TB12K9: Botryoidal groups of small but well defined scalenohedral crystals, with brownish color and excellent luster, that strongly contrast with Limonite matrix.
Cantera San Valentín, La Unión, Murcia  Spain (1982-1984)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.8 × 7.7 cm

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm

TR62K9: Botryoidal groups of small but well defined scalenohedral crystals, with brownish color and excellent luster, that strongly contrast with Limonite matrix.
Cantera San Valentín, La Unión, Murcia  Spain (1982-1984)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.8 × 4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm

N10RK9: Group of prismatic crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster, on matrix.
Mina San Andrés, Geoda Realces, Villaviciosa de Córdoba, Espiel, Córdoba  Spain (11/1997)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 0.9 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm

N26DK9: Group of prismatic crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster, on matrix.
Mina San Andrés, Geoda Realces, Villaviciosa de Córdoba, Espiel, Córdoba  Spain (11/1997)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 2.8 × 1.9 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm

N38FK9: Group of prismatic crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster, on matrix.
Mina San Andrés, Geoda del Túnel, Villaviciosa de Córdoba, Espiel, Córdoba  Spain (11/1998)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 3.3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm

N98NK9: Group of prismatic crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges and excellent color and luster, on matrix.
Mina San Andrés, Geoda Realces, Villaviciosa de Córdoba, Espiel, Córdoba  Spain (11/1997)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.1 × 3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm

N36DK9: Group of prismatic crystals, many of them doubly terminated and with faces of the pinacoid. Other crystals show multiple terminations as a very sharp pyramid, always with well defined faces and edges. On matrix.
Mina San Andrés, Geoda Realces, Villaviciosa de Córdoba, Espiel, Córdoba  Spain (11/1997)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.4 × 4.2 cm

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm

NK57K9: An excellent miniature of sharp faces and edges, with a very well defined twin. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey. Crystals are partially covered by white Dolomite.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section of the March 13, 2008 edition.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 2 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm

NE57K9: An excellent miniature of sharp faces and edges, with a very well defined twin. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles dark honey. It is a small treasure.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm

NM9K9: Crystal is showing parallel growths and curved faces. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey. Partially covered by white Dolomite.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm

NK9K9: Crystal shows parallel growths and curved faces. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2 × 2.8 cm

NQ8K9: Crystal shows parallel growths and curved faces. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey. Crystals are partially covered by white Dolomite.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm

NB11K9: Crystal with parallel growths and curved faces. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.7 × 1.8 cm

NX12K9: Crystal of multiple growth forms that are honey-colored and with predominant triangular faces of the tetrahedron. Excellent transparency, luster and color.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.8 × 1.2 cm

NY11K9: Crystal shows parallel and multiple growths and curved faces. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey. Partially covered by white Dolomite.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.1 × 2.6 cm

NE11K9: Crystal with multiple defined faces and sharp edges. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles dark honey. On crystallized Dolomite matrix.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.8 × 1.7 cm

NF13K9: Crystal shows parallel and multiple growths and curved faces. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey. Partially covered by white Dolomite.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.2 × 3.2 × 1.6 cm

NG13K9: Crystal shows parallel growths and curved faces. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey. Partially covered by white Dolomite.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 1.8 cm

NJ14K9: Crystal of multiple growth forms that are honey- colored and with predominant triangular faces of the tetrahedron. Excellent transparency, luster and color. Partially covered by white Dolomite.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 1.9 cm

NX11K9: Crystal shows parallel and multiple growths and curved faces. Excellent transparency, luster and color, which resembles honey. Partially covered by white Dolomite.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.3 × 3.6 cm

NA14K9: Group of crystals with strongly marked curvatures, excellent color, on white Dolomite matrix.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7.7 × 4 cm

NK16K9: Group of crystals with strongly marked curvatures, excellent color, transparency and luster. Partially covered by white Dolomite.
Mina Las Mánforas, Áliva, Picos de Europa, Cantabria  Spain

Specimen size: 7.9 × 6.3 × 3.3 cm

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm