New Mexico Rocks & Minerals: The Collecting Guide (including Maps)It has been said that mineral and rock collecting is one of the most popular hobbies throughout the world and one that can be very rewarding and pleasurable for both the serious collector and for the weekend amateur. This guide was compiled to spread the collecting word and to share the localities in the "Land of Enchantment." It has a detailed listing of collectable New Mexico minerals, agates and petrified wood and includes over 125 collecting sites and how to get to them as well as 32 county maps indicating collecting locations. The authors have also noted access problems, such as private property, government lands and the necessity for four-wheel drive vehicles, and they have provided the reader with collecting and safety tips. The listings are divided by counties, then localities with the rocks and minerals that can be collected there. There is also a cross-referenced index of localities, maps and minerals. |
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New Mexico Rocks & Minerals: The Collecting Guide (including Maps) Frank S. Kimbler No preview available - 1981 |
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Agate Albuquerque Argentite arroyos Azurite Bajada Barite Bernalillo Beryl Bingham Bismuthinite Bornite Calcite Campground Carnotite Catron Cerrillos Cerussite Chalcedony Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chrysocolla Colfax Collecting Guide collector Columbite/Tantalite Copper County Map Coyote Springs crystals Descloizite dirt road Dona Ana County dumps Estancia FEE AREA Ferrimolybdite Fluorite Galena Garnets Go north Grant Hill Hillsboro Iron Mountain Jasper Jemez Springs junction Lake localities located Luna Madera Magdalena Magnetite Malachite miles west Mimetite mineral collecting Mining Districts Miscellaneous Mogollon Molybdenite Narsavage NW1¼ old mines Opal Palomas Gap pecos diamonds Permission to collect Petaca Petrified Wood PRIVATE PROPERTY Prospect Psilomelane Pyrite Pyrolusite Quartz Radium Springs ranch road Red Cloud Rio Arriba Rocks And Minerals Samarskite San Juan San Miguel Sandoval Santa Fe Santa Rita Smithsonite South Sister Peak specimens Sphalerite Sulfur Take Rte Taos Torrance turn left Turn right Turquois Tyuyamunite Uraninite Uranium minerals Valencia Vanadinite Washington D.C. White Signal Wulfenite
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