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Red Trinitite, a Piece of Atomic History

Red trinitite is technically not a true mineral, because it was not formed through a geologic process. Rather, this brick-red colored...

Yttrofluorite, Joseph Mine, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Yttrofluorite is a variety of fluorite in which the rare earth element yttrium substitutes for some of the calcium in the fluorite (CaF2)...

Yttrofluorite, Joseph Mine, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Yttrofluorite is a variety of fluorite in which the rare earth element yttrium substitutes for some of the calcium in the fluorite...

Calcite, Fluorite and Willemite from Hidalgo County, New Mexico

This beautiful 3-color fluorescent rock features a combination of calcite, willemite and fluorite and is part of a find made by New...

Spectacular 3-Color Fluorescent Beauty from the Land of Enchantment

This stunning fluorescent rock features a beautiful 3-color combination of calcite, willemite and fluorite and is part of a find made by...

Two-Color Calcite and Willemite from a New Find- The Night Hawk Mine in New Mexico

This exceptional two-color fluorescent specimen was collected by notable New Mexico collectors Ken and Gail Hennig from a new find in...

Scheelite Octahedrons on Matrix, Ortiz mine, Golden, New Mexico

Honey colored, octahedral scheelite crystals on a light matrix, from the Oriiz mine, Golden, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Under short...

Calcite, Caliche, Opal, Aragonite - Mahoney mining area, NM

A really nice example from the Mahoney mining area in New Mexico measuring 3.5" x 2.5" x 2.0". Photographed in SW.

Fluorite - Bishop's Cap, New Mexico

Powellite from the Granite Pass Tungsten Mine, Little Hatchet Mts, New Mexico

Calcite and Willemite, Stevenson-Bennett Mine, New Mexico

Fluorescent calcite and willemite from the Stevenson-Bennett Mine, Organ Mts, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico. Under short wave UV the calcite...

Eucryptite, Harding Mine, Taos Co., New Mexico

This specimen contains intensely red fluorescent eucryptite in weak blue fluorescent spodumene, from the Harding Mine (Harding...

Multi-Wave Hemimorphite, Petroglyph Mine, New Mexico

This is an interesting multi-wave fluorescent specimen consisting of light-colored hemimorphite on an unknown brown matrix, from the...

Lava Cap Thunder Egg, Deming, New Mexico

A cut, but unpolished, Lava Cap Thunder Egg half, containing chalcedony, calcite and manganese oxide pseudomorphs, enclosed in a rhyolite...

Fluorapatite, Harding Mine, Taos Co., New Mexico

Blue-green fluorapatite in a Harding pegmatite groundmass consisting of quartz and muscovite schist. From the Harding Mine, near Dixon,...

Opal, Caliche, Aragonite, Zumwalt mine New Mexico

This specimen is from the Zumwalt mine in New Mexico. The UV photo is SW showing green opal, orange caliche, and blue aragonite. It is...

Smithsonite and Calcite, Kelly Mine, New Mexico

Here is a beautiful multicolored specimen from the Kelly Mine in New Mexico. This piece has Smithsonite that fluoresces Red and Violet,...