Virginia T. McLemore
Projects

• Mineral Resources in New Mexico

  • Significance of this project: New Mexico has a wealth of untapped mineral resources

  • Mining in New Mexico

  • Mining Databases
    • Mines in New Mexico
    • Mineral production from New Mexico
  • Mining scams (see Mining Frauds for hints on avoiding mining scams)
  • Is there future mining potential in New Mexico--2015? presentation at American Exploration and Mining Association meeting December, 2015
  • Update on mining status in NM--presentation at the NMMA 2019

  • Mineral-Resource Potential and Industrial Minerals in NM

    • SME preprint 2016
    • Memoir 50E Energy and Mineral Resources of New Mexico: Industrial Minerals and Rocks
    • Mineral-resource potential of selected BLM lands--OF-598
    • Mineral-resource potential of Sabinoso Wilderness Area and Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument--OFR-599

  • Mining districts in New Mexico

    • History, production, geology and resource potential of mining districts in New Mexico
      • List of selected mining districts
      • Resource Map 24 Mining Districts and Prospect Areas in New Mexico
    • New Mexico Mines Database
    • Mining in the Magdalena area, Socorro County--poster to Magdalena Frontier Days
    • Mining history, geology, and potential of the Rosedale Mining District, Socorro County--presentation to Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club

  • Gold-silver in New Mexico

    • Presentation "Gold in New Mexico"
    • Alkaline-related deposits
      • SME preprint
    • Placer gold deposits in NM
      • Gold panning
      • Trace element analysis of placer gold in NM
      • SME preprint 2016

• Critical minerals in New Mexico

• Rare earth elements (REE) resources in New Mexico

• Significance of this project: Although NM does not have any economic deposits of REE at this time, the REE deposits in NM are geologically and mineralogically interesting
• New Mexico Geology article

• Barite and fluorite resources

• Beryllium Resources in New Mexico

• SEG poster
• Beryllium in New Mexico (OF- 533)
• Victorio Mountains (OF-459)
• Apache Warm Springs deposit, Ojo Caliente No. 2 mining district (OF-535)
• Iron Mountain, Cuchillo mining district

• Tellurium resources in New Mexico

  • SME preprint
  • New Mexico Geology article

• Uranium Resources in New Mexico

  • Presentation at NMMA Sept 2011
  • Geochemistry, geochronology, and evolution of the igneous intrusions and mineralization in southwestern New Mexico
  • Mineral deposits associated with Tertiary alkaline igneous rocks in New Mexico, poster, SEG 2014
  • Mineral Deposits Associated with Tertiary Alkaline Igneous Rocks in New Mexico,SME Preprint 15-084, 2015

• Geology of the Monticello Canyon (Alamosa Creek), Socorro County, NM ( Ojo Caliente No. 2 district)

  • Open-file report 535
  • Open-file report 533
  • Poster given at Rocky Mountain GSA Section meeting May 2012
  • Geologic map of Montoya Butte 7.5 quadrangle
  • What are the sources of obsidian and pottery found in the area?
  • What are the mineral resources of the area?
  • Virtual exhibit of the Canada Alamosa Project

• Geology and geochemistry of Proterozoic mafic and granitic rocks in the Burro Mountains and Little Hatchet Mountains and adjacent areas of southern New Mexico, West Texas, and Arizona

  • Significance of this project: 1200 Ma anorthosites intruded 1400 Ma granites in New Mexico
  • Geology and geochemistry of Redrock-Wild Horse Mesa anorthosite and granites, Grant Co SUMMARY
  • GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE REDROCK GRANITE AND ANORTHOSITE XENOLITHS (PROTEROZOIC) IN THE NORTHERN BURRO MOUNTAINS, GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, USA, SUMMARY
  • Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland 74
  • Geology and geochemistry of Proterozoic rocks in Little Hatchet Mountains
  • Significance of Rapakivi Granites and Comingled Diabase Enclaves and Synplutonic Dikes, Little Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico ABSTRACT
    • Presentation given at Rocky Mountain GSA May 2012
  • Mineral resources Wild Horse Mesa area, Burro Mountains Openfile Report 486
  • Rämö, O.T., Calzia, J.P., McLemore, V.T. and Heikkilä, P., 2016, Mid-Proterozoic evolution of southern Laurentian lithosphere; crustal domains and potassic magmatic suites in Mojavia and Mazatzal; in Lithosphere 2016, Ninth Symposium On The Structure, Composition And Evolution Of The Lithosphere In Fennoscandia Institute Of Seismology: University Of Helsinki, Report S-65, p. 121-124

• Geology of the State Parks and Monuments (see virtual tour)

• Environmental geochemistry of mineral deposits in New Mexico, including papers and theses of the Questa molybdenum mine project, Pecos, and AML

  • Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Project--See AML page
  • Lessons learned from mining influenced water studies at the NMBGMR--presentation at the EPA conference, August 2014
  • Abandoned Mine Lands workshop 2018 — OFR-597

• Sustainability of mining deposits

  • Sustainbility in exploration, SME preprint 04-170
  • Sustainbility in industrial minerals, SME preprint 04-171

• Environmental geochemistry of Lead in New Mexico

• ADTI (Acid Drainage Technology Initiative)

  • Basics of metal mining influenced water (published by SME, information)
  • Handbook of technologies for sampling and monitoring of metal mine drainage for mine closure
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES ON SAMPLING AND MONITORING
  • ICARD paper on sampling and monitoring

Updated April 20, 2021