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TG99AL1: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Spherulitic growths and felty aggregates of Shattuckite, with intense and deep color, enclosed in small Quartz crystals that protect them. In Quartz matrix, with Chrysocolla and centered aggregates of acicular Malachite crystals. We emphasize, apart from the beauty of the specimen, the presence of Quartz crystals, a very rare species in Milpillas. We will send the buyer a copy of the Shattuckite analysis. The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a novelty from Tucson 2020 in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 60 in the volume 25, number 2
Milpillas Mine, level 1100, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (01/2019)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.1 × 1.9 cm = 2.64” × 2.01” × 0.75”
Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”
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