Socorro in Socorro County, New Mexico — The American Mountains (Southwest)

New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Museum

New Mexico Mineral Museum Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Gregory Walker, August 16, 2010

1. New Mexico Mineral Museum Marker

Inscription. Based on personal collection willed to the New Mexico School of Mines by C.T. Brown in 1928, this museum displays thousands of mineral specimens from around the world with special emphasis on minerals found in New Mexico. Highlights include smithsonite from Kelly (Magdalena District), linarite from Bingham, Grants District uranium, Carlsbad potash, Silver City copper, Harding pegmatite minerals, and numerous fossils.

Erected by New Mexico Historic Preservation Division.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Science & Medicine. A significant historical year for this entry is 1928.

Location. 34° 4.011′ N, 106° 54.469′ W. Marker is in Socorro, New Mexico, in Socorro County. It can be reached from Canyon Drive east of Canyon Olive Lane, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Socorro NM 87801, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Southwest New Mexico and in the Rio Grande Valley.

It is also in the American Southwest.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain

and also the Republic of Texas.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within one mile of this marker, measured as the crow flies: New Mexico Tech (approx. ¼ mile away); For Southern Independence (approx. 0.4 miles away); Edward S. Stapleton House (approx. 0.8 miles away); Jesus Maria Torres House (approx. 0.9 miles away); Church of the Epiphany (approx. one mile away); Socorro

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(approx. one mile away); Bursum House (approx. one mile away); Juan Jose Baca House (approx. one mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Socorro.

New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Museum and Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Gregory Walker, August 16, 2010

2. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Museum and Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on October 14, 2025. It was originally submitted on December 5, 2010, by Gregory Walker of La Grange, Texas. This page has been viewed 1,118 times since then and 16 times this year. Last updated on July 30, 2025, by Bill Wingate of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on December 5, 2010, by Gregory Walker of La Grange, Texas. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.