New Mexico Mineral Research

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

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

Sun and Earth
Looking for crystals in the forest

Killer cluster of scepters from gemrock

measures 36 x 36 x 34 mm

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

Welcome to Gemrock!

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

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

FOV about 9mm

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

FOV about 9 mm

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

Amethyst
Collected by hand in New Mexico

Work in progress.....stay tuned

Electric green clusters of molybdofornacite

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doubly terminated crystal of electric blue linarite from the Blanchard Mine

FOV about 2mm

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.

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

Quartz

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

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

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

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

Nice micro vanadinite collected underground at the Macy Mine

Vanadinite (Var: Arsenic-bearing Vanadinite) Yellow arsenatian vanadinite on matrix

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

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

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