New Mexico Mineral Research

04/30/2025

Find this and other unique New Mexico mineral specimens at Mother's day weekend! Bringing some Southwest heat 🔥 to the Midwest for a cool Pop-up event on May 10th!

04/18/2025

New Mexico Mineral Research.....peering into the infinite diversity of forms in the microverse

04/18/2025

Submillimeter gaidonnayite crystals impaled on green aegirine. The closeup shows the hemimorphic morphology of the wedge shaped crystals quite well.

From Wind Mountain, New Mexico

04/02/2025

Acicular blue green crystals of rosasite next grass green acicular crystals of malachite. Rosasite usually forms more, rounded, botrypidal masses rather than discrete crystals...however this find was analyzed and confirmed to be rosasite based on the ratios of Cu and Zn, proving once again how difficult site identification of minerals can be.....

03/23/2025

Biggest scepter about 2cm tall on matrix....

02/22/2025

Isometric andradite crystals
Memphis Mine, Doña Ana County, New Mexico
FOV about 8 mm

01/30/2025

Check out my new article on mindat

A Collector’s Guide to Paramount Canyon, New Mexico, USA By: Michael C. Michayluk Geography Paramount Canyon is on the western slope of the Black Range, in the extreme northwest corner of ...

01/25/2025

Amethyst on quartz
Gemrock claim, Sierra Co., New Mexico
27 x 17 x 21 mm

01/18/2025

Tarantula walking on the north rim on Paramount Canyon, Sierra Co., New Mexico. Photo taken in 2016.

01/12/2025

V is for Vanadinite

Two hexagonal, reddish orange vanadinite crystals growing in the shape of the letter "V" from...
Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA

FOV about 1 mm

01/02/2025

Durmortierite with Gypsum from near Quartsite, Arizona.
FoV about 1.6mm and 6mm respectively

12/26/2024

Happy Holidays!

New Mexico quartz in Michigan snow