New Mexico Mineral Symposium — Abstracts

All the potential magic of mineral collecting, with respect to lost mines and legends, will be explored with an overview of localities from southern to northern New Mexico. I will examine individual counties and give a short review of the stories that have been responsible for all of the glorified legends. This collection of stories will be treated with some practical perspective illustrating the way they were created and transmitted. An in-house exercise will be performed that will hopefully provide everyone with some insight into how and why stories of lost mines and legends are so glorified. Some perspective about why each of us seeks and searches for legendary deposits, or at least is intrigued by them, will also be discussed. Hopefully this presentation will cause everyone some introspection and provide humor.