Commercial Cramer Mine, Mimbres mines group, Georgetown Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Greenish aggregates of vanadinite on red descloizite. In the collection of Ray Demark.
Orange descloizite pseudomorphing vanadinite. In the collection of Ray Demark.
Very aesthetic specimen with translucent, red-brown vanadinite, some altered to greenish descloizite pseudomorphs. Looks beautiful under magnification. Old Smithsonian label, collected by W.F. Hillebrand. Ex. Robert C. Linck (1905-1970); Ex. US National Museum (Smithsonian) No. 48687. Overall size of mineral specimen: 5x4x3 cm. Size of individual ...
© 2003 John H. Betts
Blood red microcrystalline crusts of descloizite and prismatic crystals of vanadinite to about 1.5 mm. Field width: 12 mm. P Haas photograph and collection (no. 72-053).
© Peter Haas
Very aesthetic specimen with translucent, red-brown vanadinite, some altered to greenish descloizite pseudomorphs. Looks beautiful under magnification. Ex. Robert C. Linck (1905-1970). Overall size of mineral specimen: 3x2x2 cm. Size of individual crystals: micro to 2 mm.
Cluster is 1.2mm across. Collected 2005 by Cookie Saathoff. In Saathoff Collection
These sprays of yellowish vanadinites on white quartz were collected on 6/11/2021.
Orange Descloizite with white Calcite, Specimen is 4.5 cm. From the sealed off & collapsed Commercial mine. Photo Frank L. Murray
© Frank L. Murray
Collection of Jesse Crawford. The depth of field has been enhanced using CombineZP (16 frames). Equipment: Nikon D-100 digital camera on a homemade microscope.
© 2008 by Jesse Crawford
FOV=5mm, collected by and in the collection of Don & Cookie Saathoff. This specimen was collected on what I've been told are the Cramer (Kramer) mine dumps shortly after the shaft was "remediated". Establishing the Cramer mine as a seperate entity from the Commercial mine will require some research.
Bursts of brown Descloizite with red Vanadinite from the Commercial Mine, NM, U.S. Specimen measures approximately 8.5 x 5 cm. FOV = 1.2 cm
© Peter Hargis
FOV~4mm This photo is of a small vug in a piece of rough ~7.5cm X 3cm and is what I call a micromounter's nightmare!! NO PLACE TO TRIM without destroying something else interesting!! On the piece is vanadinite, descloizite, acanthite and chlorargyrite group. Please see additional photos (child photos).
30 x 20 x 16 mm specimen of glttering orange-brown descloizite microcrystals on matrix. Ex Zinn. RFC 3002.
© 2011 Michael C. Roarke
These green bromargyrite crystals were collected on 10/3/2015.
Association of vanadinite (var. endlichite) and clear calcite on a carpet of orange descloizite. Specimen purchased from the NMT Museum in Socorro, NM. FOV is about 7 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2010
relatively sharp crystalized greenish bromargyrites on matrix
Bromargyrite nodule on a specimen given to me by Don Saathoff. Thanks, Don!! Image was processed with Zerene Stacker and Picasa 3.9 software. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2014
This orange wulfenite crystal and green bromargyrite blob were collected on 10/3/2015.
Kernel of vanadinite (var. endlichite) in association with clear calcite. These lie on a carpet of orange descloizite. There is a secondary growth, probably also descloizite, on the kernel of vanadinite. FOV is about 3 mm in length. Specimen purchased from the NMT Museum in Socorro, NM. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
Brown Vanadinite crystals on Orange-brown Descloizite, 4cm by 6cm. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
These colorless quartz crystals and 3 different colored calcites were collected on 10/3/2015.
Bursts of brown Descloizite with red Vanadinite from the Commercial Mine, NM, U.S. Specimen measures approximately 8.5 x 5 cm.
This green malachite was identified visually and collected on 10/3/2015.
Association of vanadinite (var. endlichite) and clear calcite on a carpet of orange descloizite. Specimen purchased from the NMT Museum in Socorro, NM. FOV is about 4 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
Descloizite after Vanadinite
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I found this silver wire while scanning a specimen with my microscope. This is a fresh find (04/2018) from the commercial incline mine dump. Some small bromargyrite is also visible.
© Frank Karasti
A purple-gray splattering of bromian Chlorargyrite on a quartz matrix. This may have been exposed to daylight to attain this color (photosensitive). Along the fresh break it is olive green under the surface. Also some minor orange vanadinite visible.
Yellow bromargyrite worms. Doug Merson photo and collection.
© 8/2016 Douglas Merson
Orange wulfenite with green bromargyrite. Collected by Jerry Cone
A nice showings of olive green bromian chlorargyrite with white druzy quartz covered hemimorphite.
closeup of a vug completely blanketed with white/clear hemimorphite sprays
This jarosite belongs to Michael Michayluk. Jarosite determined by optical properties. Photo by Jerry Cone.
This colorless, multi-faceted calcite sits in a vug coated with colorless hemimorphites. This piece is a gift from Joan Beyer to Michael Michayluk, it resides in his collection.
Goethite pseudomorphs after Pyrite with colerless dog tooth calcite and minor yellow bromargyrite.
Chlorargyrite altering to silver. The child photo is the opposite side The lower portion marks is where I have probed.
Brown, trigonal plates of jarosite on quartz matrix. Visually identified
A pair of multicolored aragonite sprays. There are also some fine needles that resemble pyrolusite.
These red-orange descloizite clusters and light-orange sticks of vanadinite were collected on 10/3/2015.
1mm orange Wulfenite. There are Bromargyrite crystals as well but are out of focus in this picture. Collected by Jerry Cone and given to me.
3 mm waxy looking aggregate of Bromargyrite
Aragonite with black mn oxides. Child photo is close up of crystal detail.
Well defined crystals of light brownish jarosite with orange vanadinite on quartz.
Tiny blue aurichalcite crystal hiding in a quartz vug with two small to identify bright red possibly descloizite crystals.
Wulfenite (yellow). From Don Saathoff.
In the foreground is grey descloizite as columnar aggregates of xls; behind the descloizite is a bundle of yellow to brown vanadinite. Several of the Georgetown claims were recently purchased for the purpose of building a "cabin resort". In fact, the last time I was at the Commercial-Cramer there was a water-well drilling rig set up on the ...
© Don Saathoff
These blue green aurichalcites, colorless willemites and orange goethite needles were collected on 6/11/2021. There are also some quartz crystals in the center of the photo.
sculptural mass of greenish bromargyrite
green bromargyrite associated with colorless hemimorphite and unidentified yellow/orange
These pale orange vanadinites ,colorless quartz crystals and black hematite balls were collected on 10/3/2015.
These orange crystals of vanadinite were collected on 10/3/2015.
A few of the many bromargyrite filled vugs on a golf ball sized specimen that I split in Half. The outside of this rock showed no hint of what was on the inside!
A decent spray of hemimorphite with a bit of druzy quartz
A close up of a group of white platy calcite crystals.
green bromargyrite
New Mexico Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum no. 9731, gift of W.T. Worthington, Don E. Lillie, and Robert W. Eveleth.
© Erin Delventhal
This large blob of grey-green bromargyrite in the center of the photo and tiny yellow vanadinites at the bottom were collected on 10/3/2015.
These brown jarosites on colorless quartz were collected on 6/11/2021.
Clusters of orange vanadinite growing on a substrate of dark red to black descloizite. In the lower right-hand corner of the image some of the dark red descloizite can be seen. Photograph by Don Saathoff and in the collection of Don & Cookie Saathoff.
Red and black hematite with olive green bromian chlorargyrite and a few colorless quartz crystals.
Brown coating of minute, bladed descloizite crystals on elongated vanadinite crystals with white calcite. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
I found this silver wire while scanning a specimen with my microscope. This is a fresh find (04/2018) from the commercial incline mine dump. Some small bromargyrite is also visible. Note: silver is not mindat listed for this location! Also added is a photo of most of the specimen rock. The silver wire is on the lower right side.
Colorless calcite crystals with vanadinite on orange descloizite. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
closeup of orange descloizite aggregates
This image is a close-up of the columnar aggregates of descloizite in front of the vanadinite in the first image. The dis-advantage of stacking is that you tend to lose the sense of depth. These columns are about twice as high as they are thick.
These orange vanadinites and black/red hematites were collected on 10/3/2015.
These orange vanadinites sitting on colorless quartz were collected on 10/3/2015.
These orange descloizites are pseudomorphing vanadinite. They were collected on 10/3/2015.
Off white plates of calcite with orange vanadinite coating white quartz.
These orange vanadinites were collected on 10/3/2015.
These orange descloizites and black/red hematites are sitting on quartz and were collected on 10/3/2015.
