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Selenite from
Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:State
Classification
Species:Gypsum var: Selenite
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calciteⓘ9 photos of Selenite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Goethiteⓘ4 photos of Selenite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ4 photos of Selenite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Gypsumⓘ2 photos of Selenite associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Creedite2 photos of Selenite associated with Creedite at this locality.
Aragoniteⓘ2 photos of Selenite associated with Aragonite at this locality.
Fluoriteⓘ2 photos of Selenite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Manganese-bearing Calcite1 photo of Selenite associated with Manganese-bearing Calcite at this locality.
Rhodochrosite1 photo of Selenite associated with Rhodochrosite at this locality.
Desert Roseⓘ1 photo of Selenite associated with Desert Rose at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Selenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chihuahua, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1336195
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1336195:6
GUID (UUID V4):f384a02a-4d8b-4e0c-beaf-919d86451348
Localities for Selenite in this Region
Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles SerdĂĄn Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
PotosĂ­ Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles SerdĂĄn Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Gibraltar Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Lepanto Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Naica Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Astonishing Naica Giant Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico Ivån Jalil Antón Carreño-Mårquez 1 , Isaí...of the Astonishing Naica Giant Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico. Minerals 2021, 11, 292. https://doi.org/10...Engineering, Universidad La Salle Chihuahua, Chihuahua 31625, Mexico; 10307@ulsachihuahua.edu.mx Department...Investigación en Materiales Avanzados, Chihuahua 31136, Mexico; isai.castillo@cimav.edu.mx (I.C.-S.);...Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Chihuahua 31125, Mexico; bernardoperez.cazares@gmail.com
Book
K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits...Placer de Guadalupe Puerto del Aire District Chihuahua .......................... Santa Eulalia District....................... Gypsum, variety selenite ....... Selenite Inclusions ................. Rare Minerals
Catalog/List
boxes: $3.00 each BROWN DOG-TOOTHED CALCITE: Chihuahua. Mexico: I Know, there's a lot of thla around, but...larger specimen grab you! GARNET CALCITE: Chihuahua, Mexico: OK, I know what you are thinking, what the...sections (orange) LARGE COMBINATION CALCITE: Chihuahua, Mexico: Another one I just couldn't pasa up! Large... HEMIMORPHITE & MIMETITE: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico: These Interesting apeolmana are 3 to 5 inohes...are $6.00 each MIMETITE NEEDLES: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Me>dco: Top quality specimens of yellow to yellow-green
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that a is in acute angle B. THE SELENITE Wnrtau CAVES OF NAICA, MEXICO F. Fosuec, (I . S. I{ati,onal...characteristic feature of many of the ore deposits of Mexico that are found in the Cretaceouslimestones of the...of Naica, a small mining camp in the state of Chihuahua. To reach them one goes to the station of Concho...Central R. R. 130 kilometers south of the city of Chihuahua and from here by a narrow gauge line to Naica...is the habit of the owners, the Naica Mines of Mexico, a subsidiary of the Penoles Company, to care for
Catalog/List
UORESCENT GEODES: Nice quality geode halves from Chihuahua, Mexico. These are all deeply hollow and have banded...size and characteristics. WINDOW SELENITE: Colonias, Chihuahua, Mexico: Excellent single large bladed and...CALCITE: The classic "Iceland Spar” from Chihuahua, Mexico! Fine water clear specimens of this great...$2.00 each. MONSTER FROSTED SELENITE ROSE CL USTERS: Chihuahua, Mexico; I carried these awhile back...inches in diameter and consist of clusters of selenite roses intergrown into large specimens with the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LVV—long w a v e Twinning is also very common in selenite, fishtails and butterfly wings are terms used...forms of selenite. The accepted names are swallowtail and fishtail. In the United States selenite has been...cleavable and transparent crystals under the heading SELENITE. Fine crystals have been reported from Ellsworth...at Lockport, N . Y. comes thick tabular xls of selenite with petroleum inclusions. These are very showy...is, of course, almost no end to the sources of selenite in the U.S. and there are several very famous
Catalog/List
00 each AURICHALCITE - MEXICAN: Mapimi, Durango, Mexico: Bright blue radiating acicular and botryoidal...each. SANTA EULALIA CALCITE: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico: Excellent large sized clusters of pure white...OPTICAL GRADE: The classic "Iceland Spar" from Chihuahua, Mexico! Fine water clear specimens of this great...each. CONICHALCITE - MEXICAN: Mapimi, Durango, Mexico: Sharp bright green drusy crystals and botryoidal...each. MEXICAN HEMIMORPHITE: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico: Clear to white aggregate clusters on limonite/goethite:
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :Ÿ MEXICO r - ·‹-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < ‱‱ ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO ‱ ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i...i.. is deJicated tu the people of Mexico and to the three people who directly affected me and this project
Catalog/List
apply. ARAGON/TE&ADAM/TE; San Luis Potosi, Chihuahua, Mexico, 2x2 and larger ïżœpecimens of white aragonite...$4.00 each . DANBURITE: San Luis Potosi, Chihuahua, Mexico: Nice terminated clear crystals from and inch...00 and $20,00 eaoh! MEXICAN MINI GEODES: Chihuahua, Mexico; unbroken mini geodes In the 1-2 inch size...depending upon size & quality. MEXICAN ROSAS/TE: Chihuahua, Mexico: Bright baby blue to steely blue specimens...reduced for quick sale, only $3.00 each. RAMSHORN SELENITE: South West Min e , Bisbee, Arizona: From an old
Book
anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of Dana’s Tratado de Mineralogia...a. ie = Maes Lie Auadado = ae MINERALS OF MEXICO Vv | Oona tA. IMPORTANT MINING DISTRICTS
Catalog/List
the San Francisco, Los Lamentos and Chihuahua locations in Mexico. These are the best quality of each...conichalcitc, amethyst, geodes, pyrite cubes in matrix, selenite, rutillatcd diopside, datohte, bemimorphite, ...95 each. WULFENITE: Sierra Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico: A true SUPER BEST BUY! These are wonderful...priced at only $15.95 and $24.95 each! 3. GREEN SELENITE ROSETTES; Portneys Lagoon, South Australia, Australia:...rosettes about 1/2 to 3/4 inch in size of spectacular selenite wand crystals to 1/2 inch, all growing from a
Catalog/List
larger sizes. Item 100 ADAMITE - Mapimi, Dgo., Mexico -Botryoidal or crystali7.ed w'.riite to.lemon yellow...3 $2, 101 3 X 4 $3.75 -Santa Eulalia, Chi., Mexico -White coral-like cave groups, all fine 2 X 2 $1...X4 103 $3.25 ?4 AUSTINITE - M::ipimi, I)go., Mexico -Light green end-member of the ConichalciteAustinite...$2.25, 2 X 3 $2.75, 104 $3.50 Mapimi, I)go., Mexico ~ Turquoise blue feathery sprays of xl§. on 2 X...50, CRYSTAL LIST (Continued) Frapimi, Dgo.,.Mexico -Bright green nodules and xls. covering brown _
Report (chapter)
forti@unibo.it Abstract: The mine caves of Naica (Chihuahua, Mexico) are famous because they host large gypsum...incredible slow growth. The caves of Naica (Chihuahua, Mexico) are perhaps the most famous mine caves in...company (the Peñoles Company, Mexico City). Speleoresearch & Films of Mexico City and La Venta Esplorazioni... 2009). GIANT GYPSUM CRYSTALS OF NAICA MINE, MEXICO Albian–Cenomanian age extending NE to SW (Fig...Archive). GIANT GYPSUM CRYSTALS OF NAICA MINE, MEXICO Table 1. Environments, rate of temperature decrease
Catalog/List
DATOLITE / DANBURITE, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Large vitreous translucent blocky XTLS <40mm of...£25 00 LUDLAMITE / SIDERITE, Sante Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Apple green platy XTLS of ludlamite <7mm...XTLS <4mm with chrysocolla. R.Ml. ■ 55 £32 00 SELENITE, Red River Flood Way, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada...aggregate of clear honey hued striated tabular selenite XTLS <30mm. No matrix. D C. 50 £32 00 BOURNONITE...matrix.R/D.C. 57 £34 00 MIMETITE, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Near pure mass of yellowish spherules <6mm of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gypsum crystals within hypogenic caves (Naica mine, Mexico)? Paolo S. Garofalo a,⁎, Mattias B. Fricker b,1...Three hypogenic caves within the Naica mine of Mexico (Cueva de los Cristales — CLC, Ojo de la Reina...CLC, OR, and CLV from the Ag–Zn–Pb mine of Naica, Mexico (Holden, 2008). These large caves occur 290 m below...entrance (Fig. 1) and host single crystals of selenite (the colorless crystalline form of gypsum, Ca2SO4...largest chimney-manto (skarn) Ag–Pb–Zn deposits of Mexico (Megaw et al., 1988, Palacios et al., 1991, Alva-Valdivia
Catalog/List
Bisbee and the Kelly and Blanchard claims in New Mexico. Since 1950 this woman and her partner had accumulated...Azurite, Malachite, Cuprite, Chrysocolla, Calcite, Selenite, Brochantite, Turquoise, and who knows what else...including Pioche, Nevada, Gold Hill Utah and Mapimi, Mexico: Another single flat of very interesting and inexpensive...Priced at a very affordable $6,95 each. RAMS HORN SELENITE; South West Mine, Bisbee, Arizona: Another very...saw Rams Horn Selenite? A few years back a small formation was discovered down in Mexico, but that is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
curators share their tales of obtaining specimeris in Mexico. Collected by BILL AND CAROL SMITH 1731 Daphne... Benny Fenn Mineral dealer, Rancher, Las Cruces, New Mexico Downloaded by [George Mason University] at 13:10...Utah Temtory. So in 1886 some of them emigrated to Mexico, including Benny‘s great-grandfather with his three...Benny’s family eventually moved to Coloilia Juarez, Chihuahua, but Benny spent his summers with his grandfather...knifepoint of about $9,000. Benny urged him to come to Mexico anyway: “You still have a pl‘ane ticket.” Walt
Catalog/List
variety ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah...USl\. massive massivo \fast crystals crystals Mexico. Pratocturo. Sonora, crystels crystals crystals...crystals canade. crystals Dana locolo forni □,. Mexico. conado. Quoboc, fragments USf'.. crystals...D'Or, (1S ;\BOVE Bau, Groenland, c rysta ls Mexico. ScntD Eulalia, ,'.;RSENOPYRITE: Cobalt, noar...Mine, ~1agdalcna, HYDROZINCITE: Billy Nol'1 Mexico, Springs crystals \r/est Gormany. AURICH1-\LCITE
Catalog/List
$5.00; 2x5, $4.00.$2.50 lb. ALLEMONTITE, Sonora, Mexico. Tin-white, with some matrix, lxlÂŁ, $2.00. ANALCITE...00. ARSENOPYRITE, near Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. A recent find. Choice crystal groups of large...00; 2x2i, $6.00. AURICHALCITE, Kelly Mine, New Mexico. Colorful sky-blue small crystals thickly covering... New Mexico. Large (g") twinned crystals on matrix, 24x34, $7.50. COPPER, NATIVE, New Mexico. Pseudomorph...1mm xl in vug in quartz, 1x2, $2.00. GRAPHITE, Mexico. Black, greasy feel, 1x1, 100; 1x2, 250; 2x2, 500
Journal (issue)
Azuritecredit) with Malachite,. (photo Milpillas Mine, Mexico : ARKENSTONE specimen now in the Jeff Kremer collection...have Mexico become a reliable source of mineral specimen wealth – and periodic surprises. Mexico is a...the Gulf of Mexico at Brownsville, Texas. Not surprisingly, like the western U.S., Mexico is geologically...Joe Budd Fluorite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 10 cm. Normal Light. Arkenstone Specimen. MINE...of Fluorite UVA, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 10 cm. Shortwave Ultraviolet Light. Arkenstone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
natural giant gypsum (selenite) crystals found in four deposits in Spain, Mexico and Chile. The film,...(‘Crystals Cave’) in the Naica mine, Chihuahua, Northern Mexico. The world’s biggest gypsum crystals...wealthy Roman city based on the mining of large selenite crystals (lapis specularis). The large size of...introduction to the history of the Naica mine in Mexico. Next to the lead and zinc ore mine, the so-called...minerals. Screen sequences of the world’s biggest selenite crystals from many different places on Earth are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016), hydrothermal selenite crystals (Caves of the Naica mine, Chihuahua, Mexico; Garofalo et al., 2010;...megacrystals of the caves in the Naica mine (Chihuahua, Mexico) (Garcı́a-Ruiz et al., 2007; Gázquez et al...al., 2010; Krüger et al., 2013). We analyzed selenite samples from Crystals Cave (n = 6) and Ojo de...paleo-aquifer lie above the modern groundwater in north Mexico, and from water from the Naica mine itself (Fig...calculated mother water from selenite crystals from the Naica mine (Chihuahua, Mexico). 18O and dD of the paleo-aquifer
Catalog/List
A2 A2 75p 50p ÂŁ1 ÂŁ1 Abbots Cliff, Folkestone Mexico (Barstow) Judkins, Warv,ickshire Llanqwnoq Wales...Arsenooyrite Sphalerite Silver Mines Eire Chihuahua, Mexico (Barstow) Pyrrhottite Somerset Diurleite (Barstow)...Senghenydd Pit, Wales Esgair Hir, Dyfed, Wales Mapimi, Mexico Indiana, USA Gunni slake Glitters, Cornwall Blaenawvnlais...Quarrv Grevstones Qy Geevor Mine Cornwall Maoimi Mexico Greystones Qy Cornwall Bonsall Moor Lossiemouth...Gunnislake Glitters Cornwa ll Force Craa Cumbria Mapimi Mexico Sunside Mine Yorks Laurion, Greece Nentsberry Haaas
Journal (volume)
such late formations should become more common. Selenite is very abundant in nice mm crystals, usually...see where it leads us. At least we can say that Mexico continues to offer much of interest to collectors’...GERMANY RUSSIA, NORWAY, ITALY, NEW ZEALAND, USA & MEXICO Write for free list. Dealer prices available ... single copy $1.50, Foreign, except Canada and Mexico, $14 per year surface, $22 per year air, by MereSong... Zip Code: ; Subscription Rate : US, Canada & Mexico - 1 year $ 1 2 00 2 years $22 00 ; Foreign-1
Catalog/List
cm wide 20 21 SELENITE Selenite from Mexico is a benchmark locality. Mexico represents the finest...finest quality for the species. Selenite (also known as gypsum) can grow into enormous crystals. In 1910...found with glowing selenite crystals. This crystal comes from one such cave. This selenite exhibits the properties...perfection, transparency. Selenite, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico 36 cm tall x 15 cm wide
 
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