Explore / North America / Southwest
Southwest, New Mexico
Deming NM
Cookes Peak agate and carnelian aprons
Agate beach or gravel Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Agates and jasper
Crystals and minerals
Coins and tokensPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: historic Cookes Peak mining district north of Deming, agate float country below silver-lead workings
two documented map entries: agate, carnelian, chalcedony and fluorite around the peak and old district
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open mine shafts and aditsRough roads, rattlesnakes
Keep exploring nearby
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