Category Archives: GPS

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New Maps added!!

By admin | May 12, 2010

Recenlty, I was searching for newer USDA quads and came across the USDA site that has updated USDA quads for National Forest areas [ Link ]. This is very useful since the National Forest service road network changes fairly frequently and my USDA quads from Libremap (some of them) are old. I found out while [...]

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Some OziExplorer additions

By admin | May 12, 2009

I wanted to do 2 things. 1.  Check for easier turn by turn route creation tools (ideally something integrated with OziExplorer) 2.  Figure an easy way to create index maps of regions I can’t currently find.   Well, I tried out a tool that looked promising called ITNConv which is reputed to be similar to [...]

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Lepidolite, Muscovite Harding Pegmatite-Dixon, NM

By admin | January 25, 2009

Lepidolite a lithium ore along with Rose Muscovite is very plentiful at the mine as purple rocks shown in the pictures below.  Make sure you stop at the caretakers house to sign the waiver before you go to the mine otherwise its off-limits.  The photos don’t show the purple as well — they are really [...]

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Kelly Mine Smithsonite-Magdalena, NM

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The Kelly Mine near Socorro NM (much closer to Magdalena NM) and near the VLA (Very Large Array – the HUGE radio telescope array) is the primary source for Smithsonite in the US.  However, we did very badly at the mine.  There were very large deposits of pyrite in a gross form (not the nice [...]

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