Image Credit: Sharon Cisneros
Specimen Title
Hidalgoite (w. malachite on quartz)
Associated Minerals
malachite; quartz
Principal Mineral
Size
Thumbnail; 19mm
Location in the Mine
Undetermined
Provenance
Schultz, D.; Pinch, W.W.
Collection
Cisneros, S. & E.
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB994
Description
A shard of quartz, with some well-formed flat-lying prismatic crystals (to circa 2.5 mm), richly encrusted with velvety dark green malachite and apparently two generations of hidalgoite - an earlier crystallisation of orange microcrystals, succeeded by coarser mustard-yellow crystals (individually to approximately 0.3 mm).
The specimen is from the collection of Sharon and Eugene Cisneros; it was formerly in the collections of Bill Pinch and Don Schultz. The location in the mine is not recorded but the hidalgoite has been verified by XRD and by EPMA.
Compare with TSNB592 and TSNB777, which are almost certainly from the same occurrence.
