Circular 98 — Geothermics – New Mexico's Untapped Resources

By W. K. Summers, 1968, 10 pages.

New Mexico is blessed with important ore deposits and mineral wealth. The State has established energy resources in the fossil fuels: petroleum, natural gas, and coal; it has abundant uranium, as well as the technology to develop atomic energy; it also has virtually untapped geothermal resources. What are they? Where are they? What are they worth?

From experience of other areas around the world and from preliminary work here at home we have learned some of the answers. For the questions that cannot be answered directly we have a sound basis for speculation. Here, then, is a look at geothermics.