Wulfenite Localities in New Mexico: The Famous and the Forgotten

Abstract

Philip Simmons, who has a bachelor’s degree in mineral engineering and a master’s degree in exploration geology from New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, has a mineral specimen extraction company, Enchanted Minerals, LLC. Dr. Virgil W. Lueth, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals, is the senior mineralogist/economic geologist and director of the Mineral Museum at New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, New Mexico. Figure 1. StephensonBennett mine and mill looking east to the Organ Mountains, New Mexico, ca. 1905. Image courtesy of the Robert W. Eveleth collection, NMBGMR Historic Photograph Archives No. sh-00588. Wulfenite Localities in New Mexico