Is it legal to collect at Mina Ojuela, Mapimi: adamite dumps and hanging bridge?

Licence or permit. Visited as a paid attraction: small entry fee for the bridge and guided mine walk; the underground and dumps are worked by local miners, so buy from the vendors at the bridge rather than hammering the dumps yourself

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Mina Ojuela, Mapimi

Adamite dumps and hanging bridge

Mineral locality Documented siteLicence or permit

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and minerals

Also reported: adamite, legrandite, hemimorphite, wulfenite and aurichalcite from on-site vendors, ruins of the camp.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: ghost mining camp above Mapimi whose 1898 Roebling suspension bridge leads to the Ojuela mine, world standard for adamite and legrandite with 117 recorded species

Ojuela is documented as a tourist site with mine tours and on-site mineral vendors, and as the classic world locality for adamite