Smithsonite (classic locale)

El Refugio Mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico
Small Cabinet, 9.8 x 5.8 x 4.3 cm
Start Time: 02/25/2017 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 03/02/2017 6:30:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

Pretty powder-blue, waxy luster, translucent, bubbly smithsonite botryoids cover the matrix on this colorful and excellent example from the Choix. The banded smithsonite layer is 3-5 mm thick. This is fine older material, from the 1970s or 80s, from the El Refugio Mine at Choix. Classic material from this mined out locale, that was documented in a 2011 Mineralogical Record Mexico Special Issue.

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