Travel Guide New Mexico tm Mineral Museum Socorro
Upon the campus of the lies one of the great treasure troves of the southwest. Gold, silver, and precious gems, the objects of the Conquistador's travels and travails, glitter on glass shelves next to other spectacular mineral forms. This El Dorado was given the honorary title Coronado's Treasure Chest by the New Mexico Cuarto-Centennial Commission in 1939.
The mineral museum can trace its origins back to the very beginnings of the New Mexico School of Mines in 1889. The collection was assembled to help in the education of engineers and geologists. It was soon built into one of the finest in the world, winning gold medals at the St. Louis World's Fair 1904 and the Panama-California exhibition of 1915. Three thousand mineral specimens in 1938 have grown to over 15,000. Coronado's Treasure Chest is still renowned as can be seen at invited exhibitions at the Denver and Tucson Gem and Mineral Shows and featured articles in mineralogical magazines from around the world.
New Mexico Mining Museum
The New Mexico Mining Museum in Grants is one of the best self guided adventures in the state.
Discover Socorro County, New Mexico
Discover beautiful Socorro County, New Mexico. Learn more about the Very Large Array, Festival of the Cranes, SocorroFest, New Mexico Tech, NRAO, the City of Socorro, and the Socorro County Chamber of Commerce at and
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Day 167 Socorro, New Mexico - Baca and other legends
Socorro is a very old time from Spaniard days, bandits, cowboys, cowboy and range wars, and one tough sheriff who rode to Reserve past Datil and had a big shoot out with scores of Cowboys who had gotten a bit out of hand and castrated a man. The western most part of the Lincoln County wars if you will. Many things over land rights, human rights, nothing different than what the Akha look for.
I spent an hour or so in the Stage Door Grill at the quaint downtown, where the atmosphere is good and the music not too loud. Everyone was having fun.
On the way across the hills though I noticed that a small rural bar was closed. Someone told me the State of New Mexico won't issue new liquor licenses so the small ones get bought out and moved to town, the license that is, leaving many small towns with no watering hole, no beer, and no place for people to go late at night. You won't find this in Oregon. So basically the government of New Mexico is killing its own small towns in a de facto PROHIBITION. Really DUMB.
Socorro has a small town plaza, many old buildings, an old church and New Mexico Tech, a mining and engineering school
Travel Guide New Mexico tm Very Large Array (VLA) Socorro
The Very Large Array (VLA) comprises 27 radio telescopes in a Y pattern spread across the plains of San Agustin 50 miles west of Socorro. The VLA has been used by more astronomers and has been mentioned in more scientific papers than any other radio telescope in the world. Each antenna is an 82-foot diameter dish that weighs 230 tons. The on-site visitor center and gift shop offers displays and videos that educate about radio astronomy and the VLA telescope, and are open all year from 8:30 a.m. to sunset. A self-guided tour lets visitors explore the antennas up close. (575) 835-7000.
April 1964, Socorro New Mexico UFO encounter with police officer
April 24th, 1964, police officer Lonnie Zamora witnessed a landed UFO and two occupants standing next to it in broad daylight. This is thought to be the best close encounter of the third kind in U.S. history...after an exhaustive investigation by the USAF it was filed as unidentified.
Milen Show: The Rock Show in Deming, New Mexico
Every year in the spring, in the small town of Deming in the state of New Mexico, a group gathers to display and sell rocks. Many of the rocks take different forms, but it is something to see. This video gives you an idea of some of the jewelry, gems, minerals, and rock formations that you can see and buy. The event is to big for one roof, and if you have never been to one of these things, you should go.
Socorro springsnail - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The Socorro springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis neomexicana, is an endangered species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails.
This tiny snail previously inhabited a small group of thermal springs in the State of New Mexico, USA. Its survival is seriously endangered because its habitat is both vulnerable and severely threatened. The current status of the population of this snail and its habitat area is unknown. The Socorro springsnail has been listed as endangered by the governments of the United States and New Mexico.
Very little is known about this snail in general, because of its minute size, its very restricted range, and the fact that the places where it currently lives are on private property which allows no access.
The Socorro springsnail was originally described from warm springs in Socorro, New Mexico. The collector and date of the unique first sample are unknown. Specimens came from the collection of American mineralogist Charles Moore Wheatley and were likely collected in the 19th century. The species was formally described and named Amnicola neomexicana by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1916.
Pilsbry's original type description, the text where the species is officially named and described, reads as follows:
In 1982, American zoologist John B. Burch reclassified the Socorro springsnail as Fontelicella neomexicana. In 1987, two other American zoologists, Robert Hershler from the National Museum of Natural History and Fred Gilbert Thompson from the Florida State Museum assigned members of the genus Fontelicella, including F. neomexicana, to the genus Pyrgulopsis.
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Riofest 2010 Socorro New Mexico
Eleanor Bravo interviews the sponsors and producers of the event at the Macy Center
Travel Guide New Mexico tm Fort Craig Socorro New Mexico
Fort Craig, established in 1854, was one of the largest and most important frontier forts in the West. Set in the rugged beauty of Socorro County, N.M., it was one of the eight forts situated along the primary north-south road in the Rio Grande Valley. Fort Craig played a crucial role in Indian campaigns and the Civil War. Military excursions from Fort Craig pursued such notable Apache leaders as Geronimo, Victorio and Nana. The Fort has a rich multicultural history, full of stories of courage, honor and sacrifice. The Fort was home to Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th Cavalry and 38th and 125th Infantry, the predominantly Hispanic New Mexico Volunteers and New Mexico Militia, and household names like Kit Carson, Rafael Chacón and Captain Jack Crawford.Fort Craig played a significant role in 19th-century New Mexico history. The fort was situated on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (the Royal Road to the Interior Lands) — the 1,200-mile Spanish colonial trail from Mexico City to Santa Fe. This road served as New Mexicos lifeline with Mexico for 223 years and was recognized in 2000 as a National Historic Trail.
Oldest Saloon in New Mexico - Capitol Bar, Socorro, NM
The Capitol Bar, or The Cap as it's known to locals, was built in 1896 as a showcase saloon for a wine merchant in the mining town of Socorro, NM, just about an hour south of Albuquerque, NM. Since then it's also been used as a jail and court, a speakeasy and a classroom. This place is beloved by locals and stepping in is like stepping into the past. A true Western saloon, perfectly preserved and waiting for you to belly up!
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Kelly Mine, NM: Part 1 - Smithsonite
The Story of Smithsonite ... Smithsonite is a native zinc carbonate, ZuCO, It received its name in honor of the Smithsonian Institute scientist who Identified the substance.
Smithsonite can be found in many sections of the world where zinc ore is present. Ordinary Smithsonite is colorless or white, however, much of the Smithsonite found In the Kelly, New Mexico mining district contains variable quantities of a copper salt that gives it a beautiful blue-green color. Because of this, and other geological phenomena, the only Jeweler's grade Smithsonite known to exist in the world comes from the Kelly mining district of New Mexico.
None of the mines within the Kelly mining district are active at this time. The last active Smithsonite producing mine closed in 1952.
For years, miners grubbing out millions of dollars worth of silver and lead ores, had cursed a particular greenish rock that laced through their pay-streaks like gristle. They tossed it upon their ore dumps along with other worthless rocks. Fortunately, one man, Cony T. Brown of Socorro, New Mexico, became curious about these discarded dumps. In the 1890's, he shipped a few samples of this mysterious rock away for assay to a smelter in Missouri. The results came back, and quietly Brown set out to lease the Graphic Mine from whose dumps he had gathered the samples. The long-ignored green rock turned out to be a rare and valuable mineral.
In almost all the lead and silver mines whose production was failing, as well as the mines that had closed, there was Smithsonite. The most productive deposit was at the Kelly mine in a zinc vein in a cavity several feet wide and about twenty-five feet long. Here the green Smithsonite lined the cavity in layers up to two Inches thick yielding hundreds of pounds of excellent material that was cut and sold as cabochons.
In its best development, Smithsonite is a mineral of dry climates and is formed in limestone regions from primary zinc sulfides by weathering. The Smithsonite usually occurs in shells, layers, or veins up to an inch or two in thickness.
During the 1920's it became apparent that most of the Smithsonite deposits had been exhausted. With the closure of the last mine, coupled with a higher set of standards in mining safety, there is little chance that conditions will again exist that would warrant the opening of any within the district. The Smithsonite that may still be present in the depths of the Kelly Mine District is, in all probability, there to stay.
Very little top grade Smithsonite is available to the Jeweler today. Most of the existing mineral appears to be in the hands of private collectors and museums as mineral specimens and not available at any price. For example, the New Mexico Bureau of Mines recently refused an offer of $20,000 tendered by the Smithsonian Institute for a specimen of Smithsonite.
The beauty and scarcity of this rare mineral, has caused the market value to skyrocket over the past few years. Those individuals possessing articles of jewelry made from this rare mineral, own an article far scarcer than gold or diamonds.
Historic Norteno Gold Placer Claim in the Pinos Altos Mining District of New Mexico from the Departm
Loardsburg, NM
Global Quest locating gold mines in Loardsburg New Mexico
Catwalk Mountain in New Mexico has Gold in the Water!
The kids were playing in the stream that runs down from the Catwalk. This water is crystal clear as its filtered through the mountain where it gushes from waterfalls built out of lava rocks over 10000 years old! The stream is filled with beautiful shimmering minerals that shine like gold when kissed just right by the sparkling sunlight. This footage was shot by our sis Katherine Wimberly-Spahr.
University of New Mexico--Meteorite Museum Grand Re-Opening
The University of New Mexico held a grand re-opening celebration for its Meteorite Museum in Northrop Hall. The museum houses just some of the collection from UNM’s Institute of Meteoritics. This was the first major renovation to the museum since its opening in 1974.
Fluorite, New Mexico
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The Coronado Expedition of 1542
Over the past 800 years, a reliable watering hole at the base of a sandstone bluff attracted Ancestral Puebloan settlers, conquistadores, and early American travelers to El Morro. They left their mark in the form of petroglyphs and historic inscriptions on what is known as Inscription Rock. Until 2007, the oldest physical evidence of Spanish presence at El Morro was the 1605 inscription of Juan de Onate. Archeological research in 2007, however, recovered several curious artifacts with dramatic implications that seemed to link El Morro with the first major Spanish foray into the Southwest: the 1540-1542 expedition of Captain General Vazquez de Coronado. As evidence emerged, researchers wanted to know, did Coronado pass by here? If so, this would set the monument's Spanish Colonial history back decades earlier than previously thought. A few small, metal objects begin this intriguing, modern day detective story that would take researchers to sites thousands of miles from El Morro.
Created by Elaine Silverberg and Eric Betz, and edited by Ryan Gahris, the video examines some of the evidence that seems to support the earlier presence of the Spanish explorers in the area.
This is a 2011 SCPN-NAU School of Communication collaboration student project.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel Socorro - Socorro, New Mexico
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Welcome to the Holiday Inn Express, Socorro Hotel near New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
Business travelers will be pleased that our Socorro, NM hotel's convenient location provides easy access to a number of corporate groups such as BBS, United Mineral, Allied Research, Dicaperl Minerals and the Macey Center. We offer a well-equipped meeting room, as well.
Ideally located near historic downtown Socorro, NM, the Holiday Inn Express is just minutes from the area's Municipal Airport and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, as well as a variety of exciting local sites.
Guests of our comfortable Socorro accommodations can relax and enjoy local attractions such as historic downtown Socorro, the San Miguel Mission, the Hammel Museum, Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge, El Camino Real Heritage Center and the Mineral Museum. Visitors can spend an afternoon rock-climbing or hiking at Box Canyon and Water Canyon or golfing at the championship-level New Mexico Tech Golf Course.
During your visit to Socorro, NM, take advantage of our free high-speed, wireless Internet access, well-equipped fitness center, spectacular indoor pool and whirlpool, 24-hour business center, on-site self-laundry facilities and complimentary hot breakfast buffet. Be sure to check out our friendly Socorro hotel's excellent deals and rates while planning for your trip to beautiful New Mexico.
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