This Mexico Update (click here) includes great new specimens from a few localities. There are some super specimens from the Milpillas Mine – brochantite from the recent find, along with beautiful deep blue azurites and a eye-catching malachite pseudomorph after azurite.

 Brochantite, Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico – 2.8 cm

Brochantite, Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico – 6.0 cm

Azurite, Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico – top crystal 1.4 cm

Azurite, Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico – 5.0 cm

Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite, Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico – 7.0 cm

The update also includes a pretty smithsonite with anglesite from the San Antonio El Grande Mine, and sharp, glassy datolite crystals and a gemmy danburite from Charcas.

Smithsonite, Anglesite, San Antonio El Grande Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico – field of view approx. 3 cm

Datolite, Charcas, Mun. de Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico – 5.0 cm

Datolite, Charcas, Mun. de Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico – 6.0 cm

Danburite with Calcite,  Charcas, Mun. de Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Photographed portion approx. 4.0 cm