The Ojuela mine From: Mineralogical Record | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Mineralogical Record Sep/Oct 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Ojuela mine, well known among collectors worldwide, is probably Mexico's greatest mineral locality and surely its most beloved. Discovered by the Spanish in 1598, the deposit was actively mined for 350 years, but did not come to the notice of mineralogists until W.F. Foshag's visit in 1927. M ineral specimens in significant numbers did not appear until the discovery of a huge adamite grotto by Dan Mayers and Francis Wise in 1946. The 117 species now known from the deposit include the world's finest adamite (in a gorgeous array of colors and habits), legrandite, kottigite/parasymplesite, ...

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