New Mexico Mineral Symposium 2023
Last Updated: 12th Nov 2023By Jolyon Ralph
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I'm.here for the first time here at Socorro for the symposium.
Here's the museum.
The university is having a book sale, suggested donation of $1 per book
I might have bought a few too mamy
Micromounters are looking at small rocks today
Meanwhile back at the Comfort Inn hotel a few dealers are already open.
At DanZ minerals
He is an engineering genius
French fluorite
Back at the museum for an evening event
Carl Francis and Nicole Childs
Marcus Origlieri points at rocks
Phil Simmons halite and sylvite specimens
Bob Downs, Phil Persson and Bill Besse admiring the googly eye quartz
Breakfast at the start of the first full Symposium day
Lots of exciting things at the silent auction
For example this box of fulgurites collected by Bob Weber
A siderite from Poudrette quarry, Canada
Natrolite from Argentina
The label (to save me typing it all in)
Registration
Getting the auditorium ready
Minerals of the Red Cloud mines, New Mexico
About the mines
History of the copper mine
Mineral list
Arsentsumebite
Conichalcite
Pseudomorphs
Probably plattnerite
Ramon DeMark has spoken at every New Mexico Symposium over the last 43 years
Cyprine from the Pilar Cliffs
Scheelite from the Ortiz Mine
Tyuyamunite from Poison Canyon
Spangilite from the Blanchard mine
Les Presmyck talking about the Morenci mine
The pit in 1991
Mining areas map
History of the locality
Eloise Gaillou talking about Gemstones from the French Crown Jewels
Enrichment of the French Crown Jewels
Gems in the Natural History of National History
And those in the Paris School of Mines Museum display
Pink topaz
Chris Stefano talking about Michigan
Central mine copper
Lake Superior mine (phoenix mine) silver and copper
A major new fluorite discovery
The dig starts
The Blanchard Beast recovery
Map of the pocket, which has noe been backfilled
Specimen from the pocket
Specimen prep, before and after
Ron Gibbs + A tale of two specimens
Two new molybdenum trioxide minerals
Raydemarkite
The new mineral virgilluethite
Eloise again talking about her museum
The collection of Dolomieu was purchased the museum after his death
Donations from Domeyko
David Joyce has of course got his guitar out.
Pay Haynes has plenty of staurolite from Taos Co., New Mexico
Erin has instigated the First International Concretion Bowling contest
The hematite ball has a mind of its own.
Andreas Ertl talking about tourmaline
Talking about tourmaline but in particular the schorl family
Oxy schorl
Jolyon is now presenting “After 23 years of mindat - what’s new and what’s yet to come”
Jeff Scovil talking about What's New in Minerals, a presentation he used to give at the Rochester Symposium every year. Now that the Rochester Symposium is no more it has migrated here.
Silver on Dioptase!
Outside a case of the recent fluorite find we heard about yesterday
More fluorite
And more
Ive found a better space to stand
Jeff also photographs dead water bugs
"another one of those ugly red minerals from Colorado" as Jeff describes it.
Cornish chalcopyrite
Evan Jones talking about paramelaconite
Markus Raschke talking about rare earth minerals from Wyoming
It's not over until the Austrian crystallographer sings.
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