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1hRe: New Mexico stilbite locality?Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.The location for most of the Gila's coarser stilbite-Ca is the Middle Fork of the Gila River, Catron County, NM. There are stilbites, usually of a smaller size to the south, along the Gila River, in Grant County, between the "trading post" and the junction with the East fork.The ...
2wRe: Copper minerals exchange.Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Mineral Exchanges.Hello. I have several copper-bearing species from the Kelly Mine in New Mexico. They included aldridgeite, copper, cuprite, serpierite, etc. Should I send a list to you? If so then please give me your email address. Thank you. Patrick Haynes
2wRe: Today's pic questionReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.At the Tucson show a few years ago I was hustled into a room that had three or four fellows marveling at a nice aquamarine w an impressively large moveable bubble. The fellow holding the xl tipped the xl this way and that, causing the bubble to slide back and forth. I was impressed. Then I was ...
3wRe: Question about Allophane and ChrysocollaReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Hi Rolf. I have two pretty sweet Arizona chrysocolla specimens. They both very slowly shed flakes of material, probably from surficial dehydrating. In about two hunded years they may not be the same sweet specimens. It is not uncommon to see shrinkage cracks in thin layers of ...
3wRe: Question about Allophane and ChrysocollaReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.I have been able to do some xrd on allophane from the Graphic Mine, Socorro County, NM. None of my samples showed chrysocolla. The allophane ran from transparent blue, to opaque chalky blue when intermixed w gibbsite, to a white chalky material that was mostly gibbsite. Your ...
3wRe: Collection Evaluation Services and Fees?Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Hello Steve. I have done many appraisals, mostly for donations to the NMBGMR mineral museum in Socorro, NM, but for other folk as well. My fees are variable. I have occasionally passed on doing appraisals.Feel free to email me w any questions about my experiences at ...
9wRe: Hungry Vulture Mine, Monument Valley, Apache County, Arizona, United States of AmericaReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.The correct name for the locality is the Harvey Black Mine. A German dealer had decided that the Hungry Vulture" moniker was more fun.
9wRe: Bixbyite locality, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USAReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Localities.I recently had a couple of items from this location microprobed. The "bixbyites" that i checked are actually dirty magnetites. How can one put a line through "bixbyite" on the species list, and mention that some have been identified as magnetite.
15wTuscon meeting in 2024?Posted by Patrick Haynes (2) in UV Minerals.Hi.Will there be a meeting of fluorescent mineral specimen collectors during the Tucson show?Patrick
Jan 2024Re: The first mineral collector?Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.That belongs in the Louve, or near Erin's Tucson mural!
Jan 2024Re: Exchange mineralsReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Mineral Exchanges.Hello José. I do a little bit of mail trading, usually for rare species, however I have a weakness for Spanish minerals. My email is patrickhaynes407@yahoo.com. Please email me if you'd like to receive my "trade list".Thank you. Patrick Haynes
Dec 2023Re: Unidentified mineralReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Photos.The sharply pointed orange xls are titanite. They resemble titanite found at Wood Canyon (Socorro county?) and at the NM Hwy 1 roadcut near I-25's exit 100 in Sierra County. Are you certain about the locality? It could occur there, but I don't recall seeing titanite at Boiler ...
Nov 2023Re: Self-collected from a roadcut South of Chili, NMReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Identity Help.I was able to have some similar material x-rayed. It was hematite.
Oct 2023Re: Red Beryl in Madagascar?Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.The New Mexican red beryl was discovered in the summer of 1979 near Paramount Canyon in Sierra County, and the claim was named the "Beryllium Virgin".
Oct 2023Re: we found the largest red cuted beryl at 46ct in ancient queen tombReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General. Badran, if you are fairly convinced that it is beryl, and not glass, then send it to the lab for confirmation. If it is recent glass would the lab still honor the insured value of $5,000 USD? If it is glass then maybe you'd be okay if it got lost. You could probably purchase some ...
Oct 2023Re: “我想问一下，来自墨西哥的奥斯汀石是否有放射性？(I'd like to know if there is radiation from Mexico?)Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.About 2 years ago a Mexican mineral dealer in Tucson had specimens of austinite and adamite from La Mina Ojuela for sale. They can look similar, both minerals can also occur on a single sample, so I asked the fellow how can you distinguish between the two minerals. He replied "Easy." He put an ...
Sep 2023Re: POTDReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.I call them trillings.Staurolites from Hondo Canyon, NM can have singles, crosses (90 degree twins), X's (30 degree twins), trillings (3 xls at 30 degrees), or combinations of twins, such as a cross with an added single leg poking out at 30 degrees.Triplets can refer to lapidarized thin sandwiched ...
Sep 2023Re: Mineral Cup 2023: Day 20 - Topaz vs. CorundumReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Corundum specimens often have interesting inclusions, phantoms, growth lines and they never fade in the sun, unlike some wimpy topazes, which cleave when you stare at them! Consider faceted rubies and sapphires. Have you ever seen Montana egg yolk sapphires? They are so ...
Sep 2023Re: Mineral Cup 2023: Day 15 - Sapphirine vs. KyaniteReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Note that the discovery date for sapphirine is incorrect. Giesecke was in Greenland from 1806-1813, due to the UK's sinking of the neutral Danish fleet during the Napoleanic war, leaving Giesecke stranded in Greenland. Giesecke died in 1833. The Mindat date listed for its discovery is decades ...
Sep 2023Re: Mineral Cup 2023: Day 15 - Sapphirine vs. KyaniteReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General. Giesecke discovers sapphirine in Greenland around 1807. Flink discovers neptunite in Greenland somewhere around 1897.What causes Greenland type locale minerals to not do well in this competition? It ain't right.
Sep 2023Re: funny rock identification video.Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Around 1984 I was in Gary and Priscilla Young's shop, Southwest Minerals, in Albuquerque. A young couple were looking over the gold specimens, most of which were packaged into small round plastic boxes, which are commonly used for faceted stones. They asked Gary "Why are most of the gold samples so ...
Sep 2023Re: Mineral Cup 2023: Day 15 - Sapphirine vs. KyaniteReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.There should be some online betting site for this....
Sep 2023Re: Mineral Cup 2023: Day 15 - Sapphirine vs. KyaniteReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Yes. The voting has slowed way down.Perhaps when people's choices loose the voters start to loose interest.Is this the pattern with previous Cups?I was terribly upset when moissanite lost. I haven't cried that much in a long time. However I wiped the tears off of my smartphone and voted for ...
Sep 2023Re: Mineral Cup 2023: Day 11 - Calcite vs. OpalReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Ah Herwig. It is true that the title of the contest isn't "Mineral/Mineraloid Cup 2023", however I am sympathetic to underdogs, including structurally-deprived critters.Run Opal! Run!
Apr 2023Re: VillamaniniteReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Mineral Exchanges.Hello Juan. I see that you have Spanish villamaninite, from a 2021 trade request. I have lots of things from the Southwest USA. Should I send an Excell file to you, which lists my available material? If so then please give your email address so that I can attach the ...
Jan 2023Re: Unknown from Kelly Mine, NMReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Identity Help.Hi Robert! I returned to Socorro about 10 yrs ago. The images don't sing Kelly to me. I haven't seen white calcite rhombs in Kelly material. Are there any other associated minerals?Patrick
Oct 2022Re: From a local supplierReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Identity Help.Brecciated fluorite.
Aug 2022Re: Editing a photo to change a mineral name to a group name.Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Improving Mindat.org.Thank you David. Just corrected.
Aug 2022Editing a photo to change a mineral name to a group name.Posted by Patrick Haynes (2) in Improving Mindat.org.When I loaded this image I had one identification for the sulfosalt tendrils in fluorite from the Sandia Mountains, friedichite. There have since been 5 more identifications. There are now 3 IDs of aikinite, 2 of felbertalite, and the one friedrichite. They are all visually identical. How can I ...
Apr 2022photo uploading errorPosted by Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Hi. I tried to upload a photo to the "Placitas Mining District, Bernalillo County, NM, USA" page and I got an error message. When I tried to load it a second time, I got a message stating that the image had already been loaded. I checked under "my photos" and there it is, but it is not under ...
Apr 2022Re: Jackpot No.2 body, Sierra County, New MexicoReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Hi David.Thanks for making revisions.Checking Harley's 1933 "The geology and ore deposits of Sierra county, New Mexico", page 143 and an accompanying map, suggest that the name of the place used to be the Garfield claim. I assume that the references that you provided suggest that the ...
Apr 2022Jackpot No.2 body, Sierra County, New MexicoPosted by Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Hi. There is a helvine locality that is in the Iron Mountain district of Sierra county, New Mexico. There is another place in Sierra county, the Jackpot # 2 Mine (if that is the correct name for it) near Empire Peak, North of Hillsboro, NM. The pages for the latter mine have the information ...
Nov 2021Re: Textile / Spot cleaning Gun *Adding solution*Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.After using a water gun one should spray a little lubricant/oil into it to help prevent rusting.
Aug 2020Re: Unknown mineral Hilltop Mine, ArizonaReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Identity Help.Looks like a fine-grained clay mineral.
Aug 2020Re: Spessartine garnets on Orthoclase/Albite and Smoky quartzReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Mineral Exchanges.Hello Antonios. I have been meaning to reply to your exchange request. My email is patrickhaynes407@yahoo.com. I can send a "trade list" to you, which lists a lot of my surplus field collected inventory. I have never seen Bulgarian spessartine or smokey ...
May 2019Re: Sugar Grove, WV nontronite vs kaoliniteReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.xrd
May 2019Sugar Grove, WV nontronite vs kaolinitePosted by Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Having collected at Sugar Grove I have sometimes opened wet vugs, with bright green (!) nontronite. The watery solution leaks out and, within a day or two, the nontronite turns black. Quickly tossing a freshly exposed nontronite coated vug into a container with water does not stop the color change. ...
Apr 2019Re: Block this one pleaseReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Yup. I got one too, via Mindat! Prolific!
Jan 2019Re: Irradiated purple scapolite?Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.I was told by a Pakistani dealer that my transparent purple marialite had been heat-treated. He did not mention arradiation.
Jan 2019coconinoite co-type localitiesPosted by Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Coconinoite was found in 1953 at the Jomac Mine in Utah. It was later found at other localities, researched, and then published as a new mineral in 1966 in the American Mineralogist (51: 651-663), "Coconinoite: a new uranium mineral from Utah and Arizona".
The mineral was named after two of ...
Jul 2018⚠10 imagesRe: Mindat fundraiser - rockhounding Honeymoon in Western US - you decide!Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Field Collecting.Hi Troy.
There are several interesting locations in Socorro County, NM, with the first being already mentioned, the mineral museum at NM Tech in Socorro. To the East is Bingham, with fluorite, etc. To the West is Magdalena and the Kelly area mines with their dumps, etc.
If you are ...
Jul 2018Blatonite from Jomac Mine, UtahPosted by Patrick Haynes (2) in General.There are a couple of "blatonite" images on the blatonite image pages that are incorrect. Blatonite is associated with gypsum and can be intergrown with it, however if an image is of yellowish gypsum that may have some included blatonite then the image should be labeled as gypsum.
The two ...
Nov 2017Re: Bixbyite locality, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USAReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Localities.Hey Jamison.
I just asked Erin to change the name of the "bixbyite locality", because it is not warranted. The "bixbyite" from there is rediculously small and has never been verified (perhaps it isnot bixbyite).
Most Sierra County, NM bixbyite is from the old Beryllium Virgin Claim near ...
Mar 2018Big Rock (3M) quarry barwoodite vs pyrophanitePosted by Patrick Haynes (2) in General.I was recently at the Cleveland micromount symposium. There was material from the Big Rock Quarry, Little Rock, Arkansas. In the rock were aegirine, red plates of barwoodite, lots of fleshy-colored acicular xls of eggletonite and less common were brown plates of pyrophanite, I went to Mindat's ...
Oct 2017Re: Any micromounters want to trade completed micromounts at the September Denver mineral show?Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Mineral Exchanges.Hello Mark. I do not know if you attend the NM Mineral Symposium, Nov 11-12. I live in Socorro and have a wide variety of MMs.
I also have an Excell "trade list" of items that I have in quantity.
Patrick E Haynes
patrickhaynes407@yahoo.com
Aug 2015deletion of minerals or localitiesPosted by Patrick Haynes (2) in General.How does one delete a mineral listed for a locality? For instance if it is determined that a locality's "heulandite" is actually heulandite-Ca one can add the heulandite-Ca, but the list is then left with the "heulandite".
How does one delete a locality? Mindat has two localities listed for the ...
Sep 2015Re: Seeking Staurolite / Fairy Stones from around the world!Reply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Mineral Exchanges.Hi Andrew.
I have staurolites from the Hondo Canyon area of New Mexico. I have them "cleaned" (sandblasted) and uncleaned.I am seeking to trade for staurolites from other localities.
Email - patrickhaynes407@yahoo.com
Patrick Haynes
Aug 2015Re: Titanite collectorsReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in General.Hi Herwig.
I did not know that you had a specieal interest in titanite. FYI- I have it from a few Socorro county New Mexico localities: Jones Camp, Wood Canyon, the roadcut near I-25's exit 100.
Email me if you want more info.
Patrick.
Jul 2015Re: Jack Frost Mine, Magdalena District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USAReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Localities.This locality should be deleted. It is being confused with the Jack Frost Mine group in the North Magdalena Mining District.
Dec 2015Re: Minerals from Kamchatka and Crimea for exchangeReply from Patrick Haynes (2) in Mineral Exchanges.Hi Kirill.
I am interested in finding out what you have available. I have a "trade list" that I can email to you, assuming that you can do the same.
patrickhaynes407@yahoo.com.
Thanks. Patrick
