also designed the 1866 Roebling Suspension Bridge of Cincinnati and the 1883 Brooklyn Bridge. At the time of construction in 1898, the Puente de Ojuela was the third longest suspension bridge in the world. It was rebuilt recently by the Peñoles Company; the original was scrapped and only the main arches are now displayed at the Torreón Exposition Center. Minerals from Ojuela The mine is known among mineral collectors for its arsenate minerals. Ojuela adamite and legrandite have set the standard for these species. The 117 species now known from the deposit include adamite (in an array of colors and habits), legrandite, köttigite /parasymplesite, and paradamite, as well as specimens of scorodite, hemimorphite, plattnerite, aurichalcite, rosasite, fluorite, calcite, wulfenite, mimetite and other species. It is also the type locality for paradamite, lotharmeyerite, metakottigite, mapimite and ojuelaite, and the co-type locality for scrutinvite. References Ojuela Mine, Mun. de Mapimí at Mindat.org External links Ojuela Mine, with historic photographs (ca. 1910) Populated places in Durango Ghost towns in Mexico 1598 establishments in New Spain Populated places established in 1598 Former gold mines Spanish Colonial architecture in Mexico Gold mines in Mexico