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The
Georgetown Mining District
The
Georgetown mining district
in Grant Couty, New Mexico came alive in the late 1860's as a colorful
and very promising silver camp came into the picture. The mines of
Georgetown are known for the deposits of descloizite and vanadinite
that have been collected there since the 1980's.The price of silver had
gone down and the mines had to close down as well.The major mines were
operating, te largest of them were McGregor, Commercial, Naiad Queen,
and Cramer. The mine was reborn in 1877 and they named themselves the
Mimbres Mining Company. The mine district began to prosper when Mimbres
Mining and Reduction Company was organized. In 1880 the mining district
tried again as the Mimbres Consolidated Mining Company.The mines today
have been closed since 1994-2008. |
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Collecting
Rocks
The whole entire Earth is made of
rocks.
The tallest mountain has
rocks and the bottom of the deepest ocean has rocks everything has
rocks. There has been thousands of rocks and minerals found on Earth.
Rocks that are on the surface are formed from eight different elements
(oxygen, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and
sodium), these elements are combined in a lot of ways to make rocks
very different. There are three main groups of rocks,
Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. Metamorphic rocks are formed when
sedimentary and ignous rocks ae put under pressure or heat that is very
high so that they are changed completely, those rocks are called
metamorphic rocks. They form deep in the Earth's crust. Some of the
rocks are striped and foliated. Some of them are big and small and some
of them are short and tall and some of them are rough and smooth.Some
kinds of metamorphic rocks are granite and
gneiss. |
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Rocks and Minerals
A metamorphic rock
is
formed when igneous rocks and sedimentary rocks are put under high
pressure and or heat and then being pressed together to form a
metamorphic rock. A metamophic rock is formed whil being buried deep
under ground. This process is called metamorphism. Metamorphism does
not melt the rocks but it transforms them. Newer minerals are created
either by rearangement of its mineral components or because of the
fluids that came into the rock. Metamorphic rocks are are usually
striped and foliated. |
