 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia |  | | Journal (issue) | | WULFENITE, PbMoO4, 7cm, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA; Evan Jones Collection, ©...Joyce & Bob Hendrix on new home in Payson. MSA wishes you much happiness in your new mountain paradise. I...please give a warm MSA Welcome to Carlie Murphy, our new MSA Social Coordinator. Thank You Carlie for joining...Blue Cube Mine MSA Membership Corner 60 Jeff & Nicole Craig Minerals from Blanchard Mine, NM MSA...information. Mindat.org is growing every day, with new mineral information, localities and photographs added |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................... 5 by W...W. E. Wilson Minerals first described from New M ex ico ...................................... 9 by...Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico ............................................ 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum SOCORRO MARC L. WILSON New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Campus Station Socorro, New...New Mexico 87801 SOCORRO LIES IN WEST-CENTRAL New Mexico in what was once a thriving mining region and...Magdalena district with the world-famous Kelly mine and the equally famous Hansonburg district with the...the Blanchard, Mex-Tex, and Royal Flush mines. Both areas are located less than an hour’s drive from Socorro...collectors. The rich ores mined in the Magdalena district from 1866 to 1970, together with Gustav Billing’s |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most...what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times. The...a fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite...sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny crystals...crystals at the Chimney Rock quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey. Dark emerald-green, acicular brochantite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Mexico FLUORITE A Statewide Survey PHILIP SIMMONS 11816 Harrington Road SE Albuquerque, New Mexico...Mexico 87123 philsim22@gmail.com Figure 1. Fluorite, 8.7 × 6.2 cm, Doublestrike prospects, Bound Ranch...Ranch district, Grant County. Collected by Brian Huntsman, Ray DeMark specimen. 400 ROCKS & MINERALS...Fluorite, 14.1 × 10.6 cm, Foster mine, Gila fluorspar district, Grant County. Collected by Jay Rosenbauer...Rosenbauer in the early 2000s, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) Mineral Museum specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in New Mexico Figure 1. StephensonBennett mine and mill looking east to the Organ Mountains, New Mexico...SE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123 philsim22@gmail.com T VIRGIL W. LUETH New Mexico Bureau of Geology...Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology 801 Leroy Place Socorro, New Mexico 87801 virgil...in the annals of New Mexico collecting: the Stephenson-Bennett mine in Doña Ana County in the southern...cavities within the upper oxidized stopes of the mine. As a result of this exposure, many collections |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Opening of the New Mineral Museum at NEW MEXICO TECH UNIVERSITY Socorro, New Mexico, 10 November 2015...Tucson, Arizona 85728 pmegaw@imdex.com S ocorro, New Mexico, is a gem of a small college town nestled on...(fig. 4). Socorro lies on the eastern fringe of the Datil-Mogollon Volcanic Field with Socorro Peak (aka...the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, better known as New Mexico Tech (NMT). Socorro is the...geese. 234 Figure 1. The new Mineral Museum at New Mexico Tech, with Socorro Peak (“M” Mountain) looming |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na tional Museum of Canada...figure 2 (leftI: Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical...page): Galena, St. Joseph Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison...host rock.is dolomitized limestone. • The mining district is on a dome or arch. • Mineralization is typically...100°-200°C. • There is a lack of intrusive rock in the district. • Mineralogy is simple. • Precious metal values |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...mill. So it has been at places such as Broken Hill, New South Wales, where linarite’s legacy is primarily...the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite as 1–2-mm platy...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham...or Galena King mine), Coos County, and Mineral Hill near Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire. It |  | | Report (issue) | | zone of hydrothermal base-metal Association: Smithsonite, cerussite, hydrozincite, hemimorphite, azurite...system, southern Verkhoyan’ya, in the Orenburg district, Southern Ural Mountains, and at Beresovsk, near...Middle Ural Mountains. In the Montevecchio Pb–Zn mine, Sardinia, Italy. At Laurium, Greece. In the Coldstones...Bridge, North Yorkshire, England. From Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. At the Niujiaotang zinc deposit...In the USA, in the Blanchard mine, near Bingham, Hansonburg district, Socorro Co., New Mexico; from Franklin |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Andradite, Michigan, 345 Anglesite, Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 415 Ankerite, Colorado, 308 Anthony Robert...Colorado, 308; New Hampshire, 416 Barbosa, C., see In Memoriam Barite, Colorado, 308; New Mexico, 385; Utah |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite. A...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as pale |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERAL CORNUCOPIA 24 Collectors find variety in New Mexico. By Mark Leatherman 36 ARSENIC FAMILY MINERALS...long in clusters were mined at the Mashamba copper mine, in Zaire. When they were introduced at major shows...Arizona, comes to mind immediately, as the Southwest mine produced some of the most handsome, multi-inch,...world’s finest—have come from the Milpillas mine, in Sonora, Mexico. Actual mining of this deep deposit started...pretty new. Seven oxidized carbonate zones were discovered there, and from 2006 to 2012 the mine produced |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | RALPH WAYMAN 930 Warren Ave., Longmont, Colo. New Mexico is truly a paradise for the gem, crystal, and...the road. Our first stop was at the King Turquoise Mine in Colorado's famous San Luis Valley. The mines...about twelve (12) miles east of Manassa (Conejos County), Colo. The Indians originally discovered the turquoise...* - ^ / stay near one shade. The mine owner's son told us the mine has produced about $27,000 worth of...underneath the "mother hole", and hopeing to hit a new vein. A large copper company is also doing exploratory |  | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...Edwin L. Mechem .................. Governor of New Mexico Mrs. Georgia L. Lusk ....................................................................... Socorro Thomas M. Cramer ............................................................................. Socorro Richard A. Matuszeski ...........................Copperside mine, Goodsprings, Nevada ............................................ New Mayberry mine, Utah |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 20513 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee R egular readers of this...sphalerite, 8.8 cm high, from the Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Note the gemmy corners of the...The pieces are all from the fluorspar district, Hardin County, Illinois. Cincinnati Museum Center specimens...cerussite, pyrite, marcasite, talc, hemimorphite, smithsonite, and goethite have all been noted to pseudomorph...cubes from Trestia, Transylvania region, Maramures County, Romania, appears to be a complete replacement |  | | Report (issue) | | Cover Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy...page Smithsonite, 9.2 cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico...Minette) Both photos are by Jeff Scovil. No. 13: Smithsonite Think Zinc! ISBN 978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher...Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier Nancy Stevens...Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie |  | | Journal (issue) | | Speaker: Steven Veatch Topic: The Greater Alma Mining District: A Colorado Mining Legend Please note: Members...Mining District: A Colorado Mining Legend By Steven Wade Veatch The first gold strike in Park County, Colorado...the Mosquito Range in the northwest part of the county at Buckskin Gulch in 1859—the same year the “Pikes...mining camps were established. The Greater Alma District included the Alma Placers, Montgomery, Buckskin...presented harsh conditions to those who came to mine gold, silver, and other valuable mineral deposits |  | | Catalog/List | | this catatog. We re still working on finishing the new garage and Pebble Paddler shop, and turning our old...catalog in a year, we have continued to acquire new specimens, taking advantage of th0 best deals and...comfortable chair, ettle in, and peruse at willf BRAND NEW MINERAL SPrE...·further--pricereductiona apply. Ba sure to check out the new stock listed in other sections as well! AZURITE...good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the price is a whole lot better. specimens |  | | Book | | MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright © 1983...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines |  | | Report (issue) | | oxides of zinc, and most are of supergene origin. Smithsonite and hemimorphite are the main oxidized zinc minerals...recovered. Manganese and iron are byproducts of the New Jersey and Leadville deposits. Commercial ores commonly...Rocky Mountains. Saprolitic accumulations of smithsonite and hemimorphite in solution pockets of decomposed...(mostly In handsorted concentrates) Supergene ore: New Jersey 2______________________________ _ Pennsylvania2...---Colorado _________________________________ _ New ~exico 2 _____________________________ _ Arizona |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with calcite, 15 × 10 × 10 cm, from the Taiping mine, Xianghualing, Hunan Province, China. Purchased...probably from the Minerva No. 1 mine, Cave-in-Rock district, Hardin County, Illinois. Purchased for $35...9 × 1.7 cm, from the Penfield quarry, Monroe County, New York. Purchased for $3 in 1973. Jeff Scovil photo...himself prospecting for copper on an Upper Michigan mine dump! However, as we explored rock shops—and there...Mississippi River region and found marcasite on the lead mine dumps near Shullsburg, Wisconsin. But we did not |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the area’s ranching and mining industries. Grant County Museum, 321 W. Broadway, Silver City, 88061; 505/538-5921...February 2015 New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Mineral Museum, Campus of New Mexico Institute...Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, 87801. Features mineral and fossil displays. For information, contact...contact Marc Wilson. New Mexico Mining Museum, P.O. Box 297, Grants, 87020; 1-800/748-2142. Features...Features tour of simulated underground mine with mining equipment. New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 |
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Sunshine No. 4 Adit, Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA