New Mexico Mineral Research

06/24/2024

Native silver in a stringer of quartz etched out of marble
Little Buck Mine, Organ District, Dona Ana Co., New Mexico
FOV about 9mm

06/24/2024

Colorless tabular crystals of baryte with yellow globules of smithsonite on colorless quartz
Little Buck Mine, Organ District, Dona Ana Co., New Mexico
FOV about 8 mm

06/16/2024

Sun and Earth
Looking for crystals in the forest

06/13/2024

Killer cluster of scepters from gemrock

measures 36 x 36 x 34 mm

06/12/2024

Spangolite on quartz
Sunshine no. 6 adit
Blanchard Mine
New Mexico
FOV about 7 mm

06/08/2024

Welcome to Gemrock!

Hard to tell at first glance the treasures that lie beneath!

06/05/2024

Radiating, green antlerite crystals with a wave of blue spangolite in the upper right
from the Blanchard Mine, New Mexico

FOV about 9mm

06/02/2024

Predominantly dodecahedral magnetite crystals from the Grand View mine in Grant County, New Mexico

FOV about 9 mm

06/02/2024

Amethyst scepter
Gemrock claim, New Mexico
hand dug in 2023
measures 20 x 13 x 13 mm

06/01/2024

Amethyst
Collected by hand in New Mexico

05/19/2024

Work in progress.....stay tuned

05/18/2024

Electric green clusters of molybdofornacite

Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna Co., New Mexico
FOV about 2mm

05/18/2024

Chalcopyrite with tiny rhombohedrons of smithsonite ranging in color from yellow/green to red/brown.
Organ District, New Mexico
FOV about 2 mm

05/13/2024

Yellow, tetrahedral helvine, on galena with quartz and sphalerite
Grand View mine, Grant Co., New Mexico
FOV about 8 mm

05/04/2024

Yellow wulfenite with orange hexagonal bi-pyramidal crystals of vanadinite
Big Chief Mine, Hillsboro District, Sierra Co., New Mexico
FOV about 7 mm

04/30/2024

Amethyst scepters on matrix with iron oxides
Rattlesnake Pocket
Gemrock claim, New Mexico
Field of view about 80 mm

04/30/2024

Amethyst scepter over iron oxide stained quartz stem
Easter Pocket
Gemrock claim, New Mexico
About 25mm tall

04/28/2024

Doubly terminated crystal of electric blue linarite from the Blanchard Mine

FOV about 2mm

04/27/2024

Probably one of the best single scepters found at the new claim by ....if you look close you can see negative crystal inclusions in the closeup. Specimen measures about 26 mm tall.

04/27/2024

Cute little amethyst scepter from Gemrock, New Mexico. About 15 mm tall.

04/24/2024

Quartz

04/13/2024

Amethyst scepters on iron stained matrix

Gemrock claim
Sierra county, New Mexico
measures about 75 x 65 x 100 mm
collected in 2024

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04/10/2024

Japan Law twin quartz
San Pedro mine, Santa Fe Co., New Mexico
FOV about 8 mm

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04/08/2024

The foothills of the Black Range
Sierra Co., New Mexico

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04/06/2024

Amethyst scepters to about 4cm on matrix
Gemrock claim, Sierra Co., New Mexico

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04/06/2024

Sharply crystallized, pink, octahedral villiaumite
from Point of Rocks Quarry, Colfax Co., New Mexico
FOV about 2 mm

04/06/2024

Nice micro vanadinite collected underground at the Macy Mine

Yellow arsenatian vanadinite on matrix

03/30/2024

Eudialyte (pink) with feldspar
Wind Mountain, Cornudas Mountains, Otero Co., New Mexico
FOV about 1.8 mm

03/13/2024

Wulfenite nestled in a spray of colorless hemimorphite
Stevenson-Bennett mine, New Mexico
FOV about 7mm

03/04/2024

Red, cyclically twinned cassiterite on quartz with black hematite
Taylor Creek Tin District, Catron Co., NM
FOV about 1.6mm