Silver
Hill Mine
Hidalgo
County, N.M.
SAN
SIMON MINING DISTRICT
| NOTE:
Please DO
NOT
ask for directions to the collecting locations below!
Most, if not all, of this information can be obtained from
the
following guide books. | "Rock
Collecting near Lordsburg, New Mexico" by Dave Millis
Can be purchased
at the Border Rock Shop, 980 East Motel Drive, Lordsburg, NM
88045 (505)542-3724
"Minerals,
Fossils, and Fluorescents of Arizona" by Neil Bearce
Can
be purchased on Amazon.com
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[2004]
The road up to the Silver Hill Mine is a 4-wheel
drive road and the last 100 yards is especially rough! We collected
ore rocks of azurite, malachite, barite, calcite, and galena. Some
of this specimen material is highly fluorescent. |
[2004]
The Silver Hill
mine entrance.
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[2005]
"Even those fluorescent
rocks can get heavy!"
Darrel Young
emerging from the mine.
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[2005]
Liberating some specimen material from
the mine walls!
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[2005]
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[2005]
Ed Anderson's truck came up to carry down
our heavy buckets and backpacks! |
[2004]
Not a lot of turquoise at this mine. The parking was fairly
large and level once you make it up the steep grade to the mine. |
[2004]
Vic Anderson from Washington state.
A TRUE rockhound...
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[2004]
View of the road into the Silver Hill mine.
Notice the dust storm across the valley floor. |
[2005]
Notice the BIG difference in these last
two pictures. GREEN!
Arizona and New Mexico have had the
most rain fall on record for this early in the year! |
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SPECIMEN PICTURES TO FOLLOW. . .
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