Bob Montgomery Claim Group, Granite Gap, San Simon Mining District, Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
Obtained from 2004 NCMA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
© Doug Merson 2006
Olive green cluster of fornacite crystals. Doug Merson photo and collection.
© 2/2017 Douglas Merson
Austinite variety cuprian Doug Merson photo and collection.
Single sharp bromargyrite crystal. Obtained at the 2004 NMCA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Yellow mimetite crystals with blue chrysocolla. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Cluster of brown beudantite crystals on carminite. Obtained at the 2004 NCMA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Clusters of tiny hydrozinckite crystals on hydrozincite needles. Obtained from the 2004 NCMA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Spheres of rosasite with agardite-(Y) sprays.Obtained at 2004 NCMA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Descloizite Doug Merson photo and collection.
Cerussite with conichalcite. Obtained at the 2004 NCMA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Conichalcite spheres with colorless hemimorphite. Obtained at the 2004 NCMA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Wulfenite Doug Merson photo and collection.
Colorless hemimorphite crystals with green conichalcite spheres. Obtained at 2004 NCMA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Blue rosasite balls with clear & colorless hemimorphite and very minor agardite-(Y). Collected by and in the collection of Don & Cookie Saathoff.
Colorless hemimorphite surrounded by blue aurichalcite. Obtained from the 2004 NCMA meeting auction. Doug Merson photo and collection.
FOV 5mm. Richard Green collection and photo.
© R.D.Green
Rosasite groups on hemimorphite blades. Doug Merson photo and collection.
© Doug Merson 12/2007
FOV 4mm. Richard Green collection and photo.
Adamite - the green/white orthorhombic crystals. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Light blue to white, scaly crystals of fraipontite. From the Tucson Micro Mounters room, former George Stevens collection. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
FOV 8mm. Richard Green collection and photo.
Small brown crystals of Bromargyrite on matrix, 25mm by 14mm. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Light blue to white scaly crystals of fraipontite. From the Tucson Micro Mounters room, former George Stevens collection. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
.3mm unusual growths of austinite on matrix. JBS specimen and photo.
© 2010 Jason B. Smith
Brown crystals of bromargyrite with cerussite, spots of malachite and carminite (see on the other photo). Photographed by, and in the collection of Dan Costian.
© Dan Costian
White, translucent Calcite crystals. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Yellow-brown crystal clusters of Arseniosiderite, 4mm field of view. Former George Stevens collection. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Small brown crystal of Bromargyrite on matrix. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Small brown Bromargyrite crystals. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Greenish Austinite, 2cm by 2cm. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Specimen acquired from Ron Gibbs. In the collection of Don & Cookie Saathoff.
Light blue aurichalcite with colorless hemimorphite. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Orange red carminite with blocky beudantite. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Minute crystals of red carminite associated with unidentified green, perhaps beudantite. Obtained from Ron Gibbs in the 2017 Tucson Micro-mineral room
Two sprays of light blue agardite-(Y). Doug Merson photo and collection.
Hydrozincite - white to colorless blades. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Blue-green aurichalcite, colorless calcite & hemimorphite. Collected in 2007, #2315. In the collection of Don & Cookie Saathoff, photo by Don Saathoff.
© Don Saathoff
Plattnerite Obtained from Ron Gibbs at 2019 New Mexico Symposium. Photographed by and in the collection of Douglas Merson.
© 2019 Doug Merson
Greenish clusters of Austinite crystals, 4mm field of view. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Blue rosasite with colorless hemimorphite. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Light blue, elongated, bladed aurichalcite crystals on white spheres of fraipontite. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Clear & colorless hemimorphite, minor blue-green rosasite and a secondary growth of hemimorphite(?) with a coating of reddish limonite(?). Color contrasts make for an interesting specimen. Collected by and in the collection of Don & Cookie Saathoff.
Agardite-(Y) Doug Merson photo and collection.