New Bureau Building
In the early 2000s, the bureau and New Mexico Tech began planning for a new building for the New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources. The current wood frame building the bureau occupies was cobbled together over several years and has many roof leaks, inadequate bathroom facilities, and is not ADA compliant. We also have 85 years worth of irreplaceable archival materials which are at risk due to our failing building. In addition, our staff, laboratories, and our world-class Mineral Museum are in five different buildings scattered across the New Mexico Tech campus.
A site for the new building was selected between MSEC, the building that houses the Earth and Environmental Science Department, and the Skeen Library. The new 53,000 square-foot LEED certified building will include new public spaces that will allow much easier access to our Mineral Museum, the Geologic Information Center (which houses our library and archival materials), and our Subsurface Data Library (which houses our petroleum records). The building will also house our analytical laboratories. Funding for the new bureau building will be provided, in part, from revenues generated by General Obligation Bond Cfor higher education capital improvement projects, which was approved by votors during the November 2012 election.
Statewide General Obligation Bonds are a means of funding capital improvements for various state institutions and come before voters every two years. General Obligation Bond Cwill provide funding for rennovations and new infrastructure at New Mexico Tech, and many other higher education institutions across the state. The passage of GOB C did not raise taxes.
New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801-4796
information: (575) 835-5420
fax: (575) 835-6333
http://geoinfo.nmt.edu
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources is a research and service division of:
