The Harding Pegmatite Mine - New Mexico

 

Miners in Harding Mine

 

The Harding pegmatite mine property has been donated to the University of New Mexico by Dr. Arthur Montgomery. The property is to preserved as a mineral collecting locality as well as a unique outdoor geologic laboratory. Visitors are welcome, but must first sign the necessary release forms, (see below). Please restrict your mineral collecting to a few samples for your personal collections and be sure that your trash goes home with you. We also ask that you please keep dogs on a leash at all times.

For those of you with access to Google Earth (http://earth.google.com), pasting the following coordinates (lat=36.1933164766, lon=-105.794828164) for the Harding Mine into the program will locate the mine exactly. From there you can zoom out to get your bearings.

Below is a road map (scaled) with the approximate location of the Harding Mine shown. The access road to the mine is not very well marked, but is a right turn just past mile marker 8 on the road to Peñasco and Picuris Pueblo (NM75):

Harding Roadmap