The New Mexico Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum
Last Updated: 15th Feb 2023By Jolyon Ralph
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After a hectic Tucson it's time for a week off, although I am still of course working - today we are at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum in Socorro.
Entering the museum.
Nice piece of petrified(also known as opalized wood)wood from Arizona.
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Nice quartz, albite, and Muscovite the quartz crystals are like a mum and a child!!
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Tellurium from Prospect Mine, Lemitar Mountains, New Mexico
Fluorite
Cookes Peak Fluorite
Wood Tin
Stilbite and Apophyllite
Nice gypsum spike, white sands missile range.
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Ramsdellite from the Lake Valley District
Bismutite
Fluorite
Nice quartz var.amethist
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Chalcopyrite and quartz from the Groundhog Mine.
Laumontite
Sphalerite from the Thunderbolt mine.
Allanite.
Anhydrite showing the classic plastic deformation banding.
Agate and quartz
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Sharp orthoclase from Orogrande district.
Halite
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That looks like an egg!!!!!!!!!
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Romanechite from the Velarde mine.
A big chunk of Kelly Smithsonite.
Nice Stibnite from China!!!
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Very weird Stibnite!!!!!
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Hematite ps Calcite
Fluorite from Turkey Creek
Beautiful arrangement of a systematic display.
Great big wulfenite..!!!!
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Galena and Fluorite from Blanchard
Sillimanite from Pilar Wall.
Gypsum needles
Nice tourmaline!!
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Coronadite from the Tower Mine.
Chalcophanite and Azurite
Great big copper!!!
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Meteorite display
White lake meteorite
A selection of Frederick Wilda prints decorate the gallery
A 40cm copper from the Chino mine, a new donation to the museum.
Galena King mine Fluorite
Turquoise after calcite, Grant County
Dolomite in Gypsum from Chavez Co.
Historic marker
World class aphthitalite from Carlsbad.
Agate-like fluorite from Abiquiu district.
Brazilian rhodonite
Pelican mine baryte
Halite
New Mexico Wulfenite
Part of a new donation, a Fallowfields, UK witherite.
A trigon of Muscovite
Kelly aurichalcite.
Chalcopyrite
Kelly hemimorphite
Big spod.
Smithsonite after cerussite, Kelly mine
Smithsonite
Hemimorphite & Rosasite
More Kelly Smithsonite.
Another beautiful one.
Pseudo of smithsonite after cerussite.
I think we saw this piece at Tucson, linarite partially pseudomorphed.
Magnetite
Another view of the famous malachite after linarite piece
Whilst on the subject of pseudos, here are some anglesite after Galena cubes.
Or if you prefer blue, the same with linarite
New Placers District gold
Largest known New Mexico gold nugget
Chalcocite after wood
Silver
Malachite
Azurite
Analcime
Sorry for the delay in continuing, but we went to White Sands this afternoon and then drove to Santa Fe, so this is my first time free to upload. How about some Chino copper?
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Chalcoalumite etc from Bisbee.
And with that we drove 2 hours to visit the White Sands National Park. Here's a lot of gypsum for you to enjoy.
And, after staying for sunset we left heading on to Santa Fe, but that's where our mineralogical adventures end for now. Thank you for following us over the last few weeks. The next live report will be totally different - from the PDAC mining conference in Toronto, Canada next month. If you're going let me know so we can meet up!
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