MP48AK3: Turquoise nodule, with very aesthetic cavities and relief, sky blue, with Pyrite inclusions, and of unusual size. The specimen is from a classic district for the species.
Reina Mine (Turquesa Mine), El Aguajito, Ensenada, El Rosario District, Municipio Ensenada, Baja California  Mexico

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.60” × 2.20” × 1.65”

EA56Y4: Druse, on matrix, of crystals showing very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent and excellently preserved.
San Felipe, Mexicali, Baja California, Baja California  Mexico (1970-1980)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.7 × 4.7 cm = 3.43” × 2.64” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.39” × 0.20”

EMR88AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Cumengeite epitaxial on Boleite with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and an intense color. A rarity from the type locality for the species.
Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico

Specimen size: 0.5 × 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16” × 0.16”

EPP88AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Multiple twin of interpenetrating bipyramidal Cumengeite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and an intense color. A rarity from the type locality for the species.
Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico

Specimen size: 0.6 × 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16” × 0.16”

TMF99AO1: Dipyramidal Cumengeite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with great luster and an intense color. A rarity, from the type locality for the species,
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico

Specimen size: 0.6 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.24” × 0.16”

TF27AL9: Floater cubo-octahedral crystal with sharp faces and edges, with good luster and a very deep and uniform color. The back of the crystal has been cleaved but it is recrystallized and therefore the surface is natural. A Mexican classic.
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico (2018)

Specimen size: 1 × 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.39” × 0.16”

TC98D6: Great crystal that is intensely blue and has very brilliant faces, so this Boleite is very representative of the species and locality.
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.38” × 0.98” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20” × 0.20”

TM10AD0: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Aggregates of small and very sharp cubic Boleite crystals that are translucent, very bright and on matrix, with Gypsum and Paratacamite. The sample is from recent preparation works at the mine.
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico (2016)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.93” × 1.50” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.12” × 0.12”

TY88Q0: A novelty at Tucson 2010. This group of cubic crystals of Boleite was discovered in recent work in the classic Santa Amelia mine. The crystals are sharp, with very well defined faces and edges, bright and with a deep color on a Quartz matrix rich with Gypsum, with minor Brochantite.
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico (03-09/2009)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.73” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

TZ87W8: The sample is from the type locality for the species. It consists of a very sharp and aerial cubic crystal of boleite upon which "plates" of Pseudoboleite have grown epitactically on each cube face. The matrix has been reinforced because it is unstable.
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.32” × 1.85” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

EPX91CD2: Isolated crystal of Boleite, on matrix, from the type locality for the species, of good size, well-profiled, unusually shiny, and vivid and uniform in color.
It is accompanied by a small white sheet of Gypsum crystals that contrasts with the Boleite crystal.
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.3 × 4.8 cm = 3.11” × 2.09” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

TF13S0: A novelty at Tucson 2011. Spheroidal aggregates on matrix of Chrysocolla pseudomorphous after cubic crystals of Boleite. This rare pseudomorph was discovered years ago, on much paler samples, in an area nearer to the Amelia Mine (not at the mine itself) but until the end of 2010 they have not been able to recover new specimens.
Manto 3, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico (10-12/2010)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.71” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

TJ13S7: Aggregates on matrix of Chrysocolla pseudomorphous after small cubic crystals of Boleite. This rare pseudomorph was discovered years ago, but on paler samples, in an area near Amelia (not in the mine itself), but until the end of 2010 new samples had not been recovered.
Manto 3, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico (10-12/2010)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

TJ76X3: Aggregate, on matrix, of Chrysocolla pseudomorphs after cubo-octahedral Boleite crystals. This rare pseudomorph was discovered a few years ago in an area near Amelia (not in the mine itself), but until the end of 2010 new samples had not been recovered.
Manto 3, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico (10-12/2010)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 1.02” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20” × 0.20”

TX6S7: Aggregates on matrix of Chrysocolla pseudomorphous after cubo-octahedral crystals of Boleite. This rare pseudomorph was discovered years ago, but on paler samples, in an area near Amelia (not in the mine itself), but until the end of 2010 new samples had not been recovered.
Manto 3, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico (10-12/2010)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 1.6 × 3.2 cm = 2.05” × 0.63” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”

TP27S0: A novelty at Tucson 2011. Spheroidal aggregates on matrix of Chrysocolla pseudomorphous after cubo-octahedral crystals of Boleite. This rare pseudomorph was discovered years ago, on much paler samples, in an area nearer to the Amelia Mine (not at the mine itself) but until the end of 2010 they have not been able to recover new specimens.
Manto 3, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur  Mexico (10-12/2010)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 2.13” × 1.50” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.28” × 0.28”

TT87AH5: Group of thick tabular crystals that have simple crystalline forms with very well defined faces and edges and with a color and luster among the best known for the locality.
A beautiful Mexican classic that we’ll send in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label in which it appears that it had previously been in the Sullivan collection.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.87” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”

TY36L3: Thick tabular crystal group, perfectly defined, very bright, with the best color known for this locality. Crystals are positioned on a small matrix of Limonite with a very aerial shape.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.14” × 0.98” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”

TB27AH4: Thick tabular isolated crystals on matrix with minor As rich Vanadinite. With simple forms, very well defined faces and edges and with a color and luster among the best known for the locality. A beautiful Mexican classic.
Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.22” × 0.75” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.59” × 0.59”

VD67Z4: Druse of very bright equant Wulfenite crystals. They have a very intense and uniform orange color and are on matrix, with aggregates of small Calcite crystals.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1968)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.13” × 1.77” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.20” × 0.12”

MR67AC8: Aggregate of thick tabular crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are bright, have a very vivid color and are partially coated by Mimetite-Pyromorphite (solid solution) forming a crust with a color between pale green and yellow. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 6 × 5.2 × 2.4 cm = 2.36” × 2.05” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

MB96AB8: Very well defined crystals, between tabular and dipyramidal, with polycrystalline terminations, very well defined with an intense color and on a Calcite matrix.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 3.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.97” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.24” × 0.24”

TBA86AO8: Thick tabular Wulfenite crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant and with an equant habit, with very sharp crystal forms and very well defined polycrystalline growths on the faces. They are on matrix with Vanadinite (variety endlichite) and both the luster and color are of high quality.
A Mexican classic that comes from an important European collection.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 7 × 4.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.76” × 1.81” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

FA66J5: Isolated tabular crystal of excellent color on matrix of microcrystalline Willemite. Willlemite is known from Los Lamentos, but it is rare for the locality. The specimen is from Martín Oliete collection and we’ll send the collection card to the buyer of the sample.

Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico (1982)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.9 × 4.9 cm = 2.80” × 1.93” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

MF36AE7: Aggregate of Wulfenite crystals between thick tabular and equant. They are bright, have a very intense orange color and are partially coated by white botryoidal Willemite aggregates.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.2 × 3.5 cm = 2.80” × 2.05” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

TK46AE9: Aggregate of tabular crystals, translucent and with an unusual quality on its color, luster and size. They are on matrix and with Calcite. The sample, of great quality, is especially aesthetic.
Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 11.7 × 6.7 × 3.6 cm = 4.61” × 2.64” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.51”

EE89V9: Notable aggregate of tabular crystals of Wulfenite. They have an orange-yellow color, a darker horizontal geometrical color zoning and they are on limonite matrix.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico (1970-1980)

Specimen size: 13 × 10 × 8.5 cm = 5.12” × 3.94” × 3.35”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”

ME47AF3: Irregular aggregate of greatly elongated crystals with a spindle-like shape, most of them doubly terminated with very acute pyramidal terminations. The crystals are brighter than usual for Los Lamentos and have a dark greenish-brown color. These Vanadinites, whose arsenic content is quite higher than usual, are well known as the endlichite variety.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.6 × 3.1 cm = 1.93” × 1.42” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.24” × 0.08”

MF11AN0: Very sharp rhombohedral Calcite crystal, slightly translucent, with a uniform white color, on a matrix of small octahedral Pyrite crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.06” × 1.02” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 0.87” × 0.75”

TQ16H3: The Calcite crystal has simple forms but has a completely recrystallized surface emphasizing the esthetic effect on matrix rich of Galena, Pyrite and Calcite. Specimen with pedigree, as labels of first supplier and collection of origin shows (they misidentified the species, which appears as Dolomite)
Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 11 × 5.3 × 5..2 cm = 4.33” × 2.09” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 4 × 4 cm = 1.57” × 1.57”

TC200GF: Fluorite crystals on matrix, transparent, with good luster and a uniform pale green color, partially covered by scalenohedral Calcite crystals and Dolomite rhombohedra. This specimen comes from the Casado Margolles collection, whose collection card we will send to the buyer.
Naica Mine, Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.5 × 3.4 cm = 3.43” × 2.56” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.43” × 0.43”

TP86R9: Groups of transparent cubic crystals of a deeper color than usual for this kind of sample. The crystals show surfaces with polycrystalline growths on the octahedron faces and are implanted on a matrix with bright cub-octahedral crystals of Galena.
The sample is from the prestigious collection of Dr. Marvin D. Rausch (Massachusetts), whose label we'll send to the buyer.
Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1986)

Specimen size: 15 × 13 × 11 cm = 5.91” × 5.12” × 4.33”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 6.6 cm = 2.83” × 2.60”

TX26AN2: Druse of Quartz crystals (variety amethyst) with curious curvatures and various unusual growth formations, many of them with a Tessin habit. It also has colorless and water-clear crystals of Fluorite, one of them clearly dominant. Such specimens came from only a few specific finds in Naica between 1985 and 1990.
Naica Mine, Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1985-90)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 10 × 7.3 cm = 4.88” × 3.94” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 4 × 0.8 cm = 1.57” × 0.31”

EA47AM2: Very aerial group of twinned Sphalerite crystals (variety marmatite) with distinct polycrystalline growths, and very bright luster, on matrix. Associated with cubo-octahedral Galena crystals and complex transparent and lustrous Fluorite crystals.
Naica Mine, Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 6 × 4.9 × 4.2 cm = 2.36” × 1.93” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.02” × 1.02”

TR14AN1: Group of Arsenopyrite crystals with sharp crystal forms, lustrous, on matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.71” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.20”

ET46AM3: Druse of sharp scalenohedral Calcite crystals with sharp crystal forms, lustrous, with very visible phantom growths rich in inclusions and with a second generation of Calcite crystals at the vertices of the scalenohedron. An elegant Mexican classic.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 8.4 × 4.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.31” × 1.85” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.59” × 0.39”

NFF66AO5: Group of rhombohedral crystals of Calcite on matrix, with well defined faces, with curvatures on the edges, translucent, with good luster and a reddish color, more intense than usual for the locality, due to inclusions of iron oxides.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.

Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 11.2 × 7.2 × 4.3 cm = 4.41” × 2.83” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.87”

MR89AJ0: Two generations of Calcite crystals, the first of them with an acute scalenohedral shape and rich in deep red Hematite inclusions, and the second one with more complex crystals that are colorless and transparent. A Mexican classic of great quality.
J North, 18-19 levels, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1990)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 10.2 × 9.9 cm = 4.41” × 4.02” × 3.90”

Main crystal size: 9 × 5.2 cm = 3.54” × 2.05”

TA14AL1: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Cinnabar crystals with dominant rhombohedral habit, along with other minor crystal forms, translucent, extraordinarily brilliant and very bright in color, on matrix with small crystals of Calcite and Quartz. The specimen comes from a recent find and has been carefully analyzed and determined to be Cinnabar. It has been said that in specimens from this find there could be Metacinnabar too, but our analyses have not detected any. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Cocineras Mine, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (2019)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 1.26” × 0.63” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

TC63AL1: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Cinnabar crystals with dominant rhombohedral habit, along with other minor crystal forms, translucent, extraordinarily brilliant and very bright in color, on matrix with small crystals of Calcite and Quartz. The specimen comes from a recent find and has been carefully analyzed and determined to be Cinnabar. It has been said that in specimens from this find there could be Metacinnabar too, but our analyses have not detected any. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Cocineras Mine, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (2019)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.7 × 1 cm = 1.30” × 0.67” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

TE26AL1: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Cinnabar crystals with dominant rhombohedral habit and with minor crystalline forms, translucent, extraordinarily bright and very bright in color, in matrix of white saccharoidal Gypsum, and with small crystals of Calcite and Quartz. The specimen comes from a recent find and has been carefully analyzed and determined to be Cinnabar. It has been said that in specimens from this find there could be Metacinnabar too, but our analyses have not detected any. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Cocineras Mine, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (2019)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.9 × 2 cm = 1.30” × 1.14” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

TD16AL1: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Cinnabar crystals with dominant rhombohedral habit and with minor crystalline forms, translucent, extraordinarily bright and very bright in color, in matrix of lamellar Gypsum, and with small crystals of Calcite and Quartz. The specimen comes from a recent find and has been carefully analyzed and determined to be Cinnabar. It has been said that in specimens from this find there could be Metacinnabar too, but our analyses have not detected any. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Cocineras Mine, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (2019)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.93” × 1.26” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

TC110TN: Cinnabar crystals with a dominant rhombohedral shape plus minor crystal forms, translucent, extraordinarily lustrous and with a very vivid color, on matrix with small crystals of Calcite, Quartz and Gypsum. The specimen has been carefully analyzed and determined to be Cinnabar and, although it was suggested that Metacinabar could be found in these specimens too, our analyses have not detected any. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Cocineras Mine, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (2019)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.5 ×3.2 cm = 2.48” × 1.38” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

MP51AF0: Acute Creedite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are transparent, very bright, with an intense and uniform violet color and, in some areas on the sample there are reddish Hematite inclusions. The sample is from the famous cavity opened at Santa Eulalia in 1984 that provided the best Creedite samples at the locality.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (1984)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.48” × 1.77” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

CA17F2: The group is very rich in classic violet crystals so typical of this locality, with ochre zones caused by iron oxides. Nowadays it is very difficult to obtain Creedite from Santa Eulalia.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 8 × 5.5 × 3.5 cm = 3.15” × 2.17” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

TP96F6: The complex and numerous faces frame the octahedral crystals, which are considerably transparent and a neat lilac color that contrasts with the scalenohedra of Calcite. While Fluorite from this locality is known, it is not normally of this quality.
This sample has been noted and photographed in the Mineralogical Record magazine (January-February 2018, pg. 92)
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.5 × 4.8 cm = 2.20” × 2.17” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”

TB86Z6: Aggregate of cubic crystals with echeloned edges, with geometric color zones with very deep violet color on some cube faces and very transparent interiors. The sample has very good quality for the San Antonio mine where Fluorite is a not so common species.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (01/2014)

Specimen size: 6 × 5 × 3.3 cm = 2.36” × 1.97” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.83” × 0.79”

DP10AJ8: A radial growth on matrix of very aerial and well defined crystals with perfect terminations. They are translucent, bright and have a snowy white color.
The sample is from the Daunis collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.1 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 0.83” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.8 cm = 0.67” × 0.31”

TV66K0: Group of white prismatic crystals, very well defined and bright, on a dark matrix partially limonitized. On the lower part of the crystals there is a black phantom zonation.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 7.5 × 7.3 × 3.4 cm = 2.95” × 2.87” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 0.7 cm = 1.14” × 0.28”

TT13AK0: With a different presentation than other more common Mexican Mimetites, here it forms spheroidal aggregates on a Goethite matrix of crystals with a very sharp pyramidal habit, with good terminations, very bright and with a very intense yellow-orange color.
The piece comes from the collection of José Luis Vallecillo, from Madrid.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.54” × 1.14” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

TC56W7: Elongated crystals with pyramidal terminations and a very intense yellow color, bright and on a limonite matrix. It comes from a specific find in shaft 5 at Santa Eulalia.
Shaft 5, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4 × 1.4 cm = 2.32” × 1.57” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.1 cm = 0.20” × 0.04”

ME56AN0: Mosaic of small Pyrite crystals pseudomorphing an elongated Pyrrhotite crystal on a matrix of Sphalerite crystals. Different.
We will ship the specimen, which comes from a classic Mexican locality for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 1.22” × 0.51” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.31”

TKK14AN3: Group of short prismatic crystals of Pyrrhotite with very sharp crystal forms and polycrystalline growths, lustrous, on matrix, with small crystals of Sphalerite.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.46” × 0.91” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.28”

THH16AN3: Group of Rhodochrosite crystals with the dominant forms of a flattened rhombohedron, translucent, with good luster and an intense pink color, on a limonite matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Frank Melanson collection.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 2 × 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.59” × 0.47”

TC13AF1: Botryoidal Rhodochrosite with a vivid pink color and on matrix, with Galena and Pyrrhotite crystals.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.14” × 0.87” × 0.63”

TD13AF1: Botryoidal Rhodochrosite with a vivid pink color and on matrix, with Galena and Pyrrhotite crystals.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 1.6 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 0.63”

TE13AF1: Botryoidal Rhodochrosite with a vivid pink color and on matrix, with Galena and Pyrrhotite crystals.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.38” × 1.02” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.35” × 0.35”

TH14AF1: Botryoidal Rhodochrosite with a vivid pink color and on matrix, with Galena and Pyrrhotite crystals.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 1.06”

TXF14AN7: Botryoidal Rhodochrosite growths, with good luster and an intense pink color, partially covering a stalagmitic growth of Hisingerite.
We will ship the piece in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 4 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 1.57” × 0.51” × 0.51”

NZ27AL5: Isolated Rhodochrosite spheroidal aggregates, bright and very intense and uniform pink color. On matrix, with botryoidal Hisingerite-Neotocite (Series)
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 1.61” × 1.30” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

TB26N4: Superficial growths and rhombohedral crystals of uniform pink color with clear sharp crystals of Quartz.
Potosí Mine, level 10, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (2008)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.73” × 0.98” × 0.94”

TR27Z8: Vug, on a rocky matrix, filled by short prismatic crystals with flat rhombohedral terminations. The crystals are transparent, bright, with very uniform color and have small, pale yellow, globular coatings, probably Smithsonite.
Potosí Mine, level 10, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (19/09/2013)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.81” × 1.50” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

EY68AM5: Botryoidal Smithsonite growth on matrix, translucent and with an intense and uniform green color. A Mexican classic, different from the usual, with a matrix that appears to be a fossil relic.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 8.1 × 5 × 3.4 cm = 3.19” × 1.97” × 1.34”

TJR67AP8: Spheroidal aggregates of Rhodochrosite microcrystals with very bright luster and unusually intense pink color, on an Ilvaite matrix.
A high quality Mexican classic.
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.4 × 2.5 cm = 2.01” × 1.73” × 0.98”

TD67Q1: Clear green botryoidal aggregate on matrix. We note the excellent quality of this sample considering its locality of origin.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1990)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 7.1 × 4.5 cm = 3.58” × 2.80” × 1.77”

TR90AA2: Botryoidal growths on a limonite matrix of crystalline surfaces with a clear yellow color with slightly greenish shades and an intense silky luster. We especially note the uniform quality of the Smithsonite, very rare in a sample of this size.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (11/2012)

Specimen size: 15.8 × 9.2 × 6.9 cm = 6.22” × 3.62” × 2.72”

TA96Y0: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Astounding Smithsonites replacing Calcite. They show successive replacement shells indicating that the Calcite was partially replaced, some was dissolved and the next layer was attacked. Its color, its size and shape make these specimens one of the great finds of 2013. We'll send a copy of the analysis of the Smithsonite to the buyer.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (04/2013)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.89” × 1.50” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 0.87” × 0.67”

TF47Y1: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Astounding Smithsonites replacing Calcite. They show successive replacement shells indicating that the Calcite was only partially replaced during a first phase, and later completely replaced by Smithsonite. Its color, size and shape make these specimens one of the great finds of 2013. We'll send a copy of the analysis of the Smithsonite to the buyer.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (04/2013)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.7 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.85” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.47”

TE7Y0: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Astounding Smithsonites replacing Calcite. They show successive replacement shells indicating that the Calcite was partially replaced, some was dissolved and the next layer was attacked. Its color, its size and shape make these specimens one of the great finds of 2013. We'll send a copy of the analysis of the Smithsonite to the buyer.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #35, August 14, 2013 edition.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (04/2013)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 2.44” × 1.61” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.91” × 0.43”

TB98AJ0: Smithsonite replacing an aggregate of scalenohedral Calcite crystals that show successive replacement shells with phantom growths, indicating that the Calcite was partially replaced, some was dissolved, and the external shell was completely substituted by greenish-yellow Smithsonite. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This sample has been referenced and figured in the book "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" (page 248)
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (04/2013)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.1 × 5.9 cm = 2.87” × 1.61” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 1.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.59”

TP98Y0: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Astounding Smithsonites replacing Calcite. They show successive replacement shells indicating that the Calcite was partially replaced, some was dissolved and the next layer was attacked. Its color, its size and shape make these specimens one of the great finds of 2013. We'll send a copy of the analysis of the Smithsonite to the buyer.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 8, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (04/2013)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 5.9 × 4.5 cm = 3.50” × 2.32” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.30” × 0.59”

TD14V4: A novelty at Tucson 2012. Unusual crystalline shape for the Vanadinite, whose aggregates are formed by dipyramidal crystals of very well defined faces and edges. They show a creamy color and are on matrix.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), chimenea Cox, level 4, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (2011)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.46” × 1.10” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.2 cm = 0.31” × 0.08”

TM52Y0: Very aerial aggregates of crystals, some of them partially doubly terminated, showing an unusual crystalline shape for Vanadinite, with a prism and an acute dipyramid. They have very well defined faces and edges, a creamy color and are on matrix, with small crystals of Gypsum.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), chimenea Cox, level 4, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (2011)

Specimen size: 16 × 9.7 × 6.5 cm = 6.30” × 3.82” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”