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Article: 1999.(Show Highlights)(Tucson Gem and Mineral Show)
- Article from:
- The Mineralogical Record
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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With Arizona so close to Mexico it is little wonder that the February 11-14 show this year should finally feature "Mexican Minerals" as the theme. The results were all anyone could hope for. The "Aztec Sun" and the "Aztec Club" legrandites came out for an airing. The American Museum of Natural History showed classic Mexican calcites including some stunners from Guanajuato. The Smithsonian stunned everyone with two of the finest Mapimi scorodites around. A mysterious group that called themselves "Los Amigos de Del Rio" (presumably the "Friends" of early Mexican mineralogist Andres Manuel Del Rio, 1764-1849), not to be confused with the MAD Dallas group, had a case of ...
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...Mendozavilite, Na[(Ca,Mg).sub.2] [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [(OH, Cl).sub.10] [33H.sub.2]0, and paramendozavilite, [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] are closely associated with one another in a yellow oxide zone, and both have low symmetry, either
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