East Camp Mine

Field Collecting:
Southern New Mexico/Eastern Arizona

EAST CAMP
STEEPLE ROCK MINING DISTRICT
Grant County, N.M.

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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EAST CAMP PARKING

Produced gold, silver, and lead from about 1880 through 1946. There are many old mines and mine dumps in the 10-mile trend of mineralized quartz filled fissures and faults that comprise the Steeple Rock mining district. The East Camp (Golden Nugget) mine is at the head of Steeple Rock Canyon where we were able to collect massive pale amethyst in a mineralized quartz filled fissures and faults that run along the ridge line from where I am taking this picture.

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Massive pale amethyst...

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Roger Pittard from Nebraska

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The ridge where we busted rock...

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View of the snow capped peaks to the north of our collecting location.