Category Archives: Minerals

Various minerals we have found and identified.

Mines utility for OziExplorer [OziUL] web page update

By admin | May 18, 2009

Uwe at www.whitethaiger.net recently posted OziUL as a download on the Mines utility page!  This is wonderful news for all of you rockhounds out there!  Its a great utility if you use OziExplorer for exploration of the Federal open space looking for rocks and minerals. HERE is the link to the page, including some background [...]

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Convert MRDS data into usable format for OziUL

By admin | May 6, 2009

First, get your area data from THIS URL. In the Download section select “Select and Download” Which takes you to a map page where you can select your region of interest (I am doing Wyoming in this example) — select by clicking on the map or in the linked text below it:     Once [...]

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Using OziUL

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Ok, so when I don’t use it I forget how to, and this page is a simple “How to” about how to use OziUL with OziExplorer… First, launch OziExplorer, select a map for the area where you want to see mines data. Then launch OziUL, and point it to your csv file of the mines [...]

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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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