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Smithsonite from
Key Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Key Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:678864
Long-form Identifier:1:3:678864:3
GUID (UUID V4):e89ca378-8ba5-4ea1-9cb0-ebb980d842e7
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Ambrosia Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
0.6km (0.3 miles) Stonewall Tunnels, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) Sleeper Tunnel, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Sampson claim, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Graphic Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Germany Mines, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Kelly Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Little Loella claim, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Hardscrabble Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) South Juanita Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
WULFENITE, PbMoO4, 7cm, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA; Evan Jones Collection, ©...Joyce & Bob Hendrix on new home in Payson. MSA wishes you much happiness in your new mountain paradise. I...please give a warm MSA Welcome to Carlie Murphy, our new MSA Social Coordinator. Thank You Carlie for joining...the Arizona Geological Survey and at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum. Dr. Rasmussen received the...in 2010 for her work as Curator of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix. Our April 13th program
Report (issue)
Cover Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy...page Smithsonite, 9.2 cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico...Minette) Both photos are by Jeff Scovil. No. 13: Smithsonite Think Zinc! ISBN 978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher...Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier Nancy Stevens...Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
included smithsonite in the former “blue” list. However, upon reflection it is clear that smithsonite is much...this diversity of color, a suite of four Tsumeb smithsonite specimens displaying various contrasting colors...this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. IA-D). Smithsonite is a brittle, relatively soft (hardness 4-4.5)...and a purplish shade; it is rarely colorless. Smithsonite exhibits a vitreous luster that tends to be pearly...greenish- or bluish-white in ultraviolet radiation. Smithsonite is hexagonal-scalenohedral (32/m). Well- Downloaded
Journal (issue)
................ 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................... 5...5 by W. E. Wilson Minerals first described from New M ex ico ...................................... 9...Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico ....................................... 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...................................
Journal (issue)
Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special...Kerry Cooper Barbara Muntyan Christi Cramer Jason New Jean des Revières Pinal Geology Museum John Ebner... considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY -AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MAGDALENA MINING DISTRICT, NEW MEXICO BY G. F. LOUGHLIN AND A. H. KOSCHMANN...STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES ~~EW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Age and correlation ____________________ _ 16 Magdalena group (Pennsylvanian) ___________ _ 16 Sandia...limestone _____ _________________ _ 18 Age of the Magdalena group _____________ _ 19 Abo sandstone (Permian)...____________ __ ______________ Minerals of the Magdalena district, by S. G. Lasky and G. F. Loughlin_______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
American Southwest is defined as the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Colorado is omitted...with a polished face, from near Los Cerrillos, New Mexico. Smithsonian Institution specimen NMNH 46208...Coelophysis quarry, Ghost Ranch, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Displayed at the Cleveland Museum of Natural...fossils will be on display at the show. NEW MEXICO New Mexico, nicknamed the “Land of Enchantment,” became...In 1927 the state legislature created a law (New Mexico Statutes, 1978 compilation, Chapter 12, Article
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 39 The Metal Resources of New Mexico and Their Economic Features Through 1954 A revision of...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...THE HONORABLE EDWIN L. MECHEM………...Governor of New Mexico MRS. GEORGIA L. LUSK ......................Superintendent................................................ Socorro THOMAS M. CRAMER .............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COOKES PEAK Mining District Luna County New Mexico PHILIP SIMMONS 11816 Harrington Road SE Albuquerque...Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123 philsim22@gmail.com Figure 1. A view of Cookes Peak from the north at the campsite...campsite near the Surprise mine showing the typical terrain and vegetation of the upper slopes. The cholla...a long history of silver-lead-zinc mining in southern New Mexico, but it is best known within the collector...range, amid the historic Cookes Peak district, are three smaller mining subdistricts: the Cookes Peak (Cooks
Journal (issue)
Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Paul & Barbara Matt Lauren...Jaworski Evan & Bob Jones . l l L ~ L Jason New Marcus Origlieri Ronald J. Peilar Tony Potucek Les...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered
Report (issue)
OF NEW MEXICO FAYETTE A. JONES, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 1 THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO BY FAYETTE...1915 SOCORRO, ALBRIGHT & NEW ANDERSON. ALBUQUERQUE. MEXICO PRINTERS NEW • BINDERS MEXICO STATE...SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL RESOURCES SURVEY OF NEW MEXICO FAYETTE A. M. B. JONES, DIRECTOR DONAHUE...MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO BY FAYETTE A. JONES 1915 SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO ÜBRIdMr A ANDERSON...Board by Authority of the of Regents of the New Mexico State School of Mines LETTER To OF TRANSMITTAL
Map
New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Resource Map 15 March 1986 Silver and gold occurrences...occurrences in New Mexico by Robert M. North and Virginia T. Mclemore New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources...Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 Abstract Anomalous amounts of silver and/or gold have been identified...identified in 153 mining districts or prospect areas of New Mexico. Production from most of these occurrences...200,000 ounces of silver. Silver and gold in New Mexico occur in 14 distinct types of deposits ranging
Journal (issue)
MINERAL CORNUCOPIA 24 Collectors find variety in New Mexico. By Mark Leatherman 36 ARSENIC FAMILY MINERALS...long in clusters were mined at the Mashamba copper mine, in Zaire. When they were introduced at major shows...Arizona, comes to mind immediately, as the Southwest mine produced some of the most handsome, multi-inch,...finest—have come from the Milpillas mine, in Sonora, Mexico. Actual mining of this deep deposit started in...pretty new. Seven oxidized carbonate zones were discovered there, and from 2006 to 2012 the mine produced
Report (issue)
of New Mexico by JOHN H. SCHILLING 1965 STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING Sc TECHNOLOGY................................... Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayo ............................................................................. Socorro Thomas M. Cramer ............................................................... Socorro For sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Catalog/List
Managing Director New York Paul Minshull Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer NEW YORK LONDON...of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated...the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Journal (issue)
Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
Journal (issue)
of luck!) but out of fear of missing the joy of new experiences and the chance to see and learn. Mineralientage...Weber by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (see February 2005 Mineral News - Ed.). Between...noted for the mounted specimens acquired by the LA County Museum, the collection provides a solid reference...specimens and must recommend Johann Zenz' (2005a, 2005b) new book Agates (Achate in the German version). This...from Rancho La Vinata (Ejido el Apache, Chihuahua, Mexico). It graced posters and advertising for the show
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland
Report (issue)
OR PROFE SIONAL PAPER 68 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXI.CO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN, LOUIS C. GRATON AND...PRQ)tESSIONAL PAPER 68 T·H E ORE DEPOSITS O.F NEW MEXICO.. . . ., .,· ;,.: BY WALDEMAR LINpGREN,........ . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ................. . . , ... -.. . Rio Hondo. (Twining) district . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................
Report (issue)
RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...Edwin L. Mechem .................. Governor of New Mexico Mrs. Georgia L. Lusk ....................................................................... Socorro Thomas M. Cramer ............................................................................. Socorro Richard A. Matuszeski ........................
Report (issue)
The Ore Deposits of Socorro County, New Mexico Bulletin 8 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources...DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY The Ore Deposits of Socorro County, New Mexico by Samuel...Samuel G. Lasky SOCORRO 1932 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Charles R. Holmes, Acting...Acting President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES & MINERAL RESOURCES Frank E. Kottlowski, Director George S. Austin...REGENTS Ex Officio Toney Anaya, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayo, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Journal (issue)
Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection;...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...to develop an interest in the idea of forming a new organization just for serious mineral collectors
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you'll need. Graves has got it all. Call for our new catalog and we'll show you. Get a Graves and get...E. Lyons FIELD TRIPS 8 KELLY, NEW MEXICO The story of a great mining bonanza by Mark C. Blazek and Richard...in Colorado by Mrs. Wayne Henderson FEATURES 39 NEW AWARD INITIATED AT NATIONAL SHOW The AFMS President...NATIONAL SHOW PROGRAM Don't miss this event 55 NEW FORM OF OPAL FROM BRAZIL DEPARTMENTS Offlcera ...NEWS NOTES OF COLLECTING AREAS 40 66 79 WHAT'S NEW COMING EVENTS SWAP TABLE GEMS AND MINERALS i s published
 
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