About Taos Rockers Stores
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Taos Rockers Storefront
Taos Rockers, located in the historic district in an adobe-and-viga storefront,has been in business in Taos, New Mexico, since 2011. Owned and operated by Cortney Stewart and Anne Brenner (both Taos born, raised and current residents), the store has three rooms filled with all things mineral and rock - mineral and fossil specimens, jewelry, decor items, loose crystals and polished pebbles, stoneware, books, maps and more.
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Meet the storefront crew
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Annya | Lauren | Helen |
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Suni | Dane |
A wealth of geologic information at Taos Rockers retail store since 2011, you will find Jesse working at the shop now and then.
"An avid amateur mineralogist and field collector for over 30 years, Jesse knows more about New Mexico minerals and their geologic occurrence than most university geology professors in that field, and is a total WOW at identifying minerals from hand samples. And that's just a small piece of it."
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Since 2000 he’s specialized in creating exhibits for professional regional- and national-level mineralogical symposiums.
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He’s an artist, particularly enjoying print-making, drawing and sculpture.
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Many mineralogical specimens at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum (Socorro, NM Tech) were collected by Jesse.
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He’s still an active collector of mineral specimens, and now particularly enjoys mentoring younger collectors who are willing to learn.
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Taos Rockers Online store
If you can't make it to Taos to visit our adobe-and-viga shop in person, the next best option is our online store. It contains the best and/or most representative of what is sold in the Taos storefront (about 1000 items compared to the 10,000 or so in the physical store).
The online and adobe-and-viga stores do "talk" to each other, so if you can't find what you're looking for in one, please check the other, or "let your fingers do the walking" and call one of our helpful sales staff at the Taos shop.
Behind the Scenes
Taos Rockers Newsletters
Martha has the fun job of writing newsletters for Taos Rockers, as well as working in the adobe-and-viga store one day a week, and doing a lot of the informational and product work for the website. She has a BS in Geology with Honors from UNC-Chapel Hill. She took their required 6-week field mapping course in 1975, and that's what got her to New Mexico the first time - it was (and still is) located in Ranchos de Taos, NM. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology from Arizona State University. Later she served as a one-woman geology department at Hawaii Pacific University, finishing her time there as the head of research and grants administration. Martha is also a level IV Reiki Master and has apprenticed with Heather Ash Amara and is a certified Warrior Goddess facilitator. She has studied extensively with Colette Baron-Reid and is a certified oracle guide. In Peru she was initiated and attuned with Earthkeeper energy by an Andean q’ero. And that brings her full circle back into earth “science."
Taos Rockers is owned & managed by Cortney Stewart and Anne Brenner ~ In business since '08

Who we are...
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Cortney Stewart earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology (and Biology) from NM Tech. He has 35 years of experience as a mineral landman and has traveled extensively across the western US. He is a lifetime member of the New Mexico Geological Society, a Friend of the Mineral Museum (NM Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources), and a member of the Albuquerque Gem & Mineral Club and the Los Alamos Geological Society. At an early age in his career, he contracted gold fever – fortunately it remains in remission. |
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Anne Brenner earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance & Banking from Southern Methodist University (SMU Dallas). She has 38years of experience in private practice as a property manager (Real Estate Broker) and in custodial accounting. Prior to establishing Taos Rockers with Cortney, Anne thought gemstones came from Tiffany’s. She has since dug her own gemstones, had them cut and set in jewelry and can be seen wearing those stones in the shop. |
Our way of doing things...
- Anne & Cortney
Read about Taos Rockers' international mineral collection trips HERE