ER96I1: The crystals of Danburite are completely clear and form a contact visible both for the form of wedge on the termination and the fine suture all along the prism. The group is densely covered by amethyst crystals of excellent color.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 28 in number 2006/2.
Mina San Bartolo, Charcas, San Luis Potosí  Mexico (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.8 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.10” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.6 cm = 0.59” × 0.24”

EL30H7: The sample is very esthetic, formed by prismatic crystals of Danburite, one of them clearly dominant, with very sharp faces and edges and clear terminations. On the base of the specimen there are groups of amethyst Quartz of a nice color, contrasting with the white Danburite.
This sample has been reviewed, photographed and published as news from Ste. Marie 2006 by the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ on page 47, number 70.
Mina San Bartolo, Charcas, San Luis Potosí  Mexico (2005-2006)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.56” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 8.3 × 2.2 cm = 3.27” × 0.87”

TB16G9: We specially love the vivid green color of his fine and esthetic botryoidal growth, really formed of crystals with completely rounded faces and edges.
Mina Santa Anita, Choix, Sinaloa  Mexico (2005)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5 × 2.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.97” × 0.98”

TJA28AN6: Very sharp crystals of Olivenite on matrix, flattened, some of them doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations, with bright luster and a very deep olive-green color. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, one of the best for the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.67” × 0.43” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.39” × 0.08”

TA50AL2: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Two outstanding Olivenite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, flattened, with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations, lustrous and very deep olive green. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, among the best of the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.35” × 0.24”

TT49AL2: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Matrix group of outstanding Olivenite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, flattened, with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminal faces, lustrous and very deep olive green. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, among the best of the species.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph 'The Milpillas Mine' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 608 in the volume 52, number 5, September-October 2021 and in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 58 in the volume 25, number 2

Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.75” × 0.55” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.75” × 0.20”

TX99AL2: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Two outstanding Olivenite crystals, flattened, with sharp faces and edges and perfect terminal faces, lustrous and very deep olive green. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, the best for the species. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, among the best of the species.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a novelty from Tucson 2020 in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 58 in the volume 25, number 2

Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.8 × 0.9 cm = 0.75” × 0.71” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.75” × 0.28”

TV99AL2: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Group, on matrix, of highly profiled, flattened Olivenite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminal faces, lustrous and very deep olive green. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, among the best of the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.63” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.71” × 0.20”

TD88AM3: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Group of Olivenite crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial and sharp, flattened, with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations. With good luster and a very deep olive-green color. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, among the best for the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.55” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.12”

TC47AM3: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Group of Olivenite crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial and sharp, flattened, with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations. With good luster and a very deep olive-green color. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, among the best for the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.87” × 0.75” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”

TF49AM0: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Very aerial group of sharp, flat, doubly terminated Olivenite crystals on matrix. With very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations, lustrous and very deep olive green. As with so many other things from Milpillas, among the best for the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.98” × 0.75” × 0.24”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.39” × 0.08”

TR92AL2: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Very aerial group, on matrix, of highly profiled, flattened, doubly terminated Olivenite crystals, with sharp faces and edges and perfect terminal faces, lustrous and with a very deep olive-green color. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, among the best of the species.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 43 of the 2020/02 edition.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.30” × 1.02” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.3 cm = 0.75” × 0.12”

TXX88AP9: Very sharp Olivenite crystals on matrix, flattened, some of them doubly terminated, with the faces and edges well defined, translucent, shiny and of a very deep olive-green color.
As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, the best for the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.46” × 1.06” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.2 cm = 0.43” × 0.08”

TY90AM0: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Isolated crystals of Olivenite on matrix, flat and most of them doubly terminated. With very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminal faces, lustrous and very deep olive green. As with so many things from Milpillas, among the best for the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.2 × 3.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.65” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.47” × 0.08”

TT51AL2: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Matrix group of acicular Olivenite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, lustrous and very deep olive green. As on so many other occasions in Milpillas, among the best of the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3 × 1.9 cm = 1.85” × 1.18” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.16” × 0.04”

TT96AL9: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Druse of elongated Olivenite crystals on matrix with sharp faces and edges and good terminal faces, with good luster and a very deep olive green color. As with so many other finds fromn Milpillas, among the best for the species.
Milpillas Mine, level 992, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2019)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.5 × 1.6 cm = 2.83” × 2.17” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.1 cm = 0.24” × 0.04”

TT6Y4: Group of sharp doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They have the extraordinary deep blue color (“electric blue”) typical of the best samples from Milpillas and are slightly coated by Malachite. Nice miniature.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2011-2012)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.59” × 0.28”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.47”

TA68AJ2: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Very sharp Azurite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with a morphology that is unusual until now at Milpillas. The crystals, on matrix, are extremely flattened, between translucent and transparent, extraordinarily bright and have a very deep color with vivid reflections.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (12/2018)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2 × 1.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.79” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 0.63” × 0.43”

TJ51AD0: Single Azurite crystal on matrix. It is doubly terminated, very rich in faces, very bright, and with the extraordinary deep blue color (electric blue) that has made the Azurites from this locality famous.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2016, page 80
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (04/2015)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.7 × 1.5 cm = 1.26” × 1.06” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.3 cm = 1.10” × 0.51”

TT69AJ2: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Very sharp Azurite crystals with a morphology that is unusual until now at Milpillas. The crystals, on matrix, are very flattened, between translucent and transparent, extraordinarily bright and have a very deep color, with vivid reflections.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 52, April 13, 2019 edition, page 5
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (12/2018)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.8 × 1.9 cm = 1.30” × 1.10” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.39”

HM190NJ: Floater growth of sharp Azurite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent and with the extraordinary deep blue color (“electric blue”) typical of the best specimens from Milpillas. With vivid internal reflections and transparent parts under intense light and with coatings of acicular Malachite crystals.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2012)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.42” × 1.10” × 0.67”

TB69AF1: Flattened Azurite crystals that are very aerial on the matrix, with very well defined faces and edges and having the brilliant luster and famous rich blue color (“electric blue”) typical of the best samples from Milpillas. With small fibrous Malachite coatings.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2015)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.46” × 1.30” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1 cm = 0.91” × 0.39”

EB63Q8: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2010. Two individualized sharp doubly terminated crystals on matrix of very well defined faces and edges and having the very intense luster from Milpillas. Their incredible blue color (“electric blue”) is typical of the samples of this very special find.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2010 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 94, page 57, for the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ page 11 of number 5/2010 and for the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2010/2 as well as in the special "Milpillas" of the "Lapis" magazine number 07-08/2017, page 4
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (05/2010)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.50” × 1.34” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.3 cm = 1.18” × 0.51”

TP94AK6: Very aerial group of complex crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges, translucent and with the extraordinary deep blue color (“electric blue”) typical of the best specimens from Milpillas, with bright reflections and transparency under intense light. On matrix, with Malachite and small Baryte crystals.
Milpillas Mine, level 1140, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2010)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.6 × 2.7 cm = 1.65” × 1.02” × 1.06”

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

TB47AL5: Floater group of highly profiled, flattened crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with an equidimensional habit, bright, and very deep in color with intense and vivid translucency on the edges. As usually happens in the Milpillas mine, of extraordinary quality, especially due to the sharpness of the crystals.
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (01/2020)

Specimen size: 4,6 × 3.4 × 1 cm = 1.57” × 1.34” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.34” × 0.91”

TC2480TEP: Group of thick lenticular Azurite crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, with the intense luster of Milpillas and the famous deep blue color (“electric blue”) of the best specimens from this locality. It sits on matrix with small coatings of fibrous Malachite. The Milpillas mine was closed in June 2020
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2013)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.50” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

TR98V4: Parallel aggregates of Azurite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and with a very deep color. They are on a base of fibrous crystals of Malachite.
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (05/2010)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.4 × 2.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.73” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”

TZ64Z3: Very aerial aggregate of complex crystals with slightly curved faces, very bright, translucent and with a vivid, deep and uniform blue color. The sample is especially esthetic because it is crowning a matrix very rich in small acicular Malachite crystals.
This specimen has been reviewed and published in the special "Milpillas" of the magazine ‘Lapis’ number 07-08/2017, page 23
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2013)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.28” × 1.73” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

EH66Q8: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2010. Very aerial and esthetic group of very well defined faces and edges and having the very intense luster from Milpillas. Their incredible blue color (“electric blue”) is typical of the samples of this very special find. With Malachite growths and on matrix.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (05/2010)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.2 × 3.3 cm = 2.36” × 1.65” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.34” × 0.94”

TJA71AN4: Aggregate, on matrix, of thick lenticular Azurite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with the very intense luster of Milpillas specimens, and the famous deep blue color (“electric blue”) of the best specimens from the locality. With small coatings of fibrous Malachite. The Milpillas mine closed in June 2020.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2013)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4 × 2 cm = 2.44” × 1.57” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.47”

TX66S0: Individual crystals of simple and very well defined forms. Two of the crystals are clearly dominant, bright and deep blue colored, with transparent edges. A very beautiful sample, with an uncommon presentation for the locality, where crystals usually are grouped.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2010)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 6 × 3.2 cm = 2.48” × 2.36” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.87” × 0.55”

TB14Z2: Very aerial group of Azurite crystals on matrix, with aggregates of acicular Malachite crystals. The crystals, one of them clearly dominant, are translucent and have the vivid and deep blue color (“electric blue”) typical of the best samples from Milpillas.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (11-12/2013)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.9 × 1.7 cm = 2.64” × 1.93” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

TQ46AB3: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Aggregate of very sharp Azurite crystals with a thick tabular shape called “chewing gum” due their particular profile. The crystals are transparent, very bright and have the extraordinary deep blue color (“electric blue”) typical of the best samples from Milpillas. Azurite is implanted on white Dickite coating a rocky matrix.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2015 Tucson Show in the magazine "Lapis" number 03/2015, page 28 and in the monograph 'The Milpillas Mine' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 552 in the volume 52, number 5, September-October 2021
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2014)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 1.4 cm = 2.76” × 1.77” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”

TE0W4: Thick tabular crystals of azurite on matrix. They are much more isolated than usual, are very bright and have the vivid blue color (electric blue) that has made the Azurites from this locality famous.
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (10/2011)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5 × 3.4 cm = 2.91” × 1.97” × 1.34”

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

TG27AF8: Elongated, flattened and doubly terminated Azurite crystals, very rich in faces, extraordinarily bright with intense reflections and transparences under a bright light, and with the deep and vivid color (“electric blue”) typical of the best samples from Milpillas. The sample is of the best possible quality, both for the species and for the locality.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2015)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.6 × 4.1 cm = 3.62” × 2.60” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.2 cm = 1.26” × 0.47”

TAX50CD4: Azurite crystals on matrix, grouped in aggregates forming rosettes of slightly curved but very sharp crystals. With excellent luster and the best deep 'electric blue' color so characteristic of the Milpillas mine in Mexico, which is now closed.
A specimen of very high quality in which the contrast between the white matrix and the blue Azurite crystals is even more highlighted by the presence of grass-green fibrous Malachite crystals.
It should be noted that the presentation of Azurite crystals as rosettes is not common in Milpillas.
Milpillas Mine, level 1280, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2016)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 6.6 × 3.2 cm = 3.82” × 2.60” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.43”

TT27AI4: Aggregate of very sharp Azurite crystals, one of them clearly dominant. These crystals, between translucent and transparent, are very bright and have the extraordinarily deep and vivid blue color (“electric blue”) typical of the best samples from Milpillas and they are implanted on a rough Malachite band coating the matrix. The esthetic blue-green contrast between Azurite and Malachite is not too common at Milpillas.

Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (07-08/2014)

Specimen size: 9.9 × 6.7 × 4.2 cm = 3.90” × 2.64” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.51”

TE88N0: A novelty for Tucson 2009. The Malachite has replaced very well defined crystals of Azurite, some of them doubly terminated. On the piece the dark green color of the Malachite contrasts with the botryoidal concretions of Plancheite. This association is very rare at Milpillas and only a few specimens arrived to the market.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2008)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.34” × 0.91” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.28”

TC56X1: Aerial sample of Malachite pseudomorphous after Azurite. They have a very deep color, an excellent luster for the species and the biggest crystal of the former Azurite is doubly terminated.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2009)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.34” × 1.30” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

TQ69AJ2: Parallel growth of two aerial, flattened Malachites after Azurite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and on a botryoidal Goethite matrix.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 52, April 13, 2019 edition, page 6
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (09/2019)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4 × 4.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.57” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.98”

TZ98N0: A novelty for Tucson 2009. The Malachite has replaced very well defined crystals of Azurite, some of them doubly terminated. On the piece the dark green color of the Malachite contrasts with the botryoidal concretions of Plancheite. This association is very rare at Milpillas and only a few specimens arrived to the market.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2008)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.1 × 2.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.22” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.75” × 0.28”

TV48N0: A novelty for Tucson 2009. The Malachite has replaced very well defined crystals of Azurite, some of them doubly terminated. The matrix is a thin layer of very bright crystals of Chrysocolla. This association is very rare at Milpillas and only a very few specimens arrived to the market.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘extraLAPIS’ on page 83, number 45, "Kupfer Mineralien" and in the monograph 'The Milpillas Mine' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 596 in the volume 52, number 5, September-October 2021
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2008)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.4 × 1.8 cm = 2.17” × 1.34” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.47” × 0.20”

MLX47AP5: Very aerial and aesthetic group of sharp Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite crystals, on matrix.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.3 × 4 cm = 2.24” × 1.69” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.6 cm = 1.06” × 0.63”

TB47AA2: Very aerial group of Malachite pseudomorphous after Azurite crystals, with slightly rounded faces and edges, a very deep green color and a silky luster.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.3 × 2.2 cm = 2.64” × 1.69” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.4 cm = 1.18” × 0.55”

TF74AB3: Aggregate of thick Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite, better defined than usual, whose faces have a fibrous aspect and silky luster and small blue Planchéite aggregates.
Milpillas Mine, level 1140, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2012)

Specimen size: 8 × 7.2 × 3.2 cm = 3.15” × 2.83” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 2 cm = 2.13” × 0.79”

TN78AB3: Aggregate of thick Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite whose faces have a fibrous aspect and silky luster. They are very well defined and sharp, especially considering they are pseudomorphs.
Milpillas Mine, level 1140, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2012)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.39” × 2.13” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.79”

TR59AH6: Group of Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite, with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated and with a velvety aspect on the surface of their faces.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (2014)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 7 × 3.6 cm = 3.39” × 2.76” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.79”

TN22AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Flattened crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite, coated by fibrous aggregates of the same Malachite, and implanted on an unusual matrix: a very bright botryoidal Goethite.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (09-10/2014)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.5 × 7.7 cm = 3.66” × 2.95” × 3.03”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.67”

TR62AB3: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Aggregate, on a rocky matrix, of thick Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite. They have faces with a fibrous aspect and silky luster and are partially coated by laminar, colorless, clear and very bright Baryte crystals.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (09-10/2014)

Specimen size: 10 × 7.4 × 2.2 cm = 3.94” × 2.91” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.6 cm = 1.30” × 0.63”

TR66AF1: Drusy bladed Malachite crystals, pseudomorphous after Azurite, forming rosettes which have very well defined faces and curvatures. They have a very deep color and a silky luster.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2017, page 106
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora  Mexico (± 2014)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 7.3 × 3 cm = 5.00” × 2.87” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.22” × 1.22”