Lake Arthur

Lake Arthur is a small town in Chaves County, New Mexico, on the Pecos River south of Roswell, and it's a genuinely famous name in the aragonite world — mindat and mineral references cite "Lake Arthur, New Mexico" aragonite for its striking red-orange, intergrown cyclic-twinned (sixling) crystal clusters, compared to classic Spanish and Moroccan aragonite. That reputation is real. But the batch coordinate for this entry sits about 16 miles east of the actual town of Lake Arthur, out past the Pecos River valley into open Chaves County rangeland — not the town or river corridor the aragonite locality is generally understood to reference. Treat the mineral claim as solid at the town/river level, and the pin itself as unreliable.

The town of Lake Arthur sits about 1 mile west of the Pecos River, near the southern border of Chaves County, New Mexico. The batch coordinate for this entry, by contrast, lands roughly 16 miles east of town — no specific access point or road was found for that exact spot.

UNVERIFIED. No source describes a specific dig method, tools, or public access point for aragonite at Lake Arthur — this is a documented mineral locality in mineralogical literature, not a described rockhounding destination with directions.

Land status is unverified — confirm ownership and permission before visiting either the town of Lake Arthur or the batch's given coordinate. This stretch of the Pecos valley and surrounding Chaves County rangeland is predominantly private agricultural and ranch land; no public collecting area was identified.