For $20, the Blanchard Rock Shop in Bingham, NM will let you collect on their claim.
Main adit of the old baryte mine. Naturally, someone has cut a hole in the barricade.
The bench of rock running diagonally through the picture is a seam of baryte, fluorite, and galena. The small opening of the pocket is just visible above the chisels.
Close-up view of the pocket - the fluorite crystals are blue cubes, the baryte are white-orange blades, and galena are metallic grey. The scoring in the rock around the handle of the hammer is in preparation to remove a plate of crystals from the pocket behind it.
A sample of fluorite, baryte, and cerussite chiseled out of the matrix.
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