New Mexico Mines DATABASE Manager-Virginia T. McLemore

A computerized inventory on existing abandoned, inactive, and active mines and mills throughout New Mexico has been established at the NMBGMR. This database, not yet completed for the entire state, includes uranium, metallic, and industrial minerals mines and mills; coal mines are included in the National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS) at the NMBGMR. Information such as location, production, reserves, geology, development, ownership, type of deposit, geochemistry, and sources of other information are included. Field examination of many sites has occurred over the last 20 years to provide more accurate inventory data. Geochemical data from various mines is being entered into a separate database. Production data for gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, uranium, vanadium, potash, manganese, barite, fluorite, and other commodities (excluding coal, oil, and gas) are also available for many districts as well as year by year statistics for the state as a separate database. A bibliography of references on metallic and industrial minerals in New Mexico also is being maintained.

Mining districts of New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Open-file Report 494, CD-ROM

Geochemistry and production SUMMARY

Paper Use of the New Mexico Mines Database in Reclamation Studies Involving Mine Waste Rock Piles and Tailings