DATABASE OF THE
URANIUM MINES,
PROSPECTS,
OCCURRENCES, AND
MILLS IN NEW MEXICO
Virginia T. McLemore, Kelly
Donahue, Christian B.
Krueger, Amanda Rowe, Linda
Ulbricht, Meghan L. Jackson,
Michael R. Breese, Glen
Jones, and Maureen Wilks
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Funded in part by New Mexico State
Land Office, EPA, and NMBGMR
Purpose
• to provide data on uranium
occurrences, mines, and mills in New
Mexico
• to federal, state, and local agencies,
public organizations, private industry,
and individual citizens
Purpose — continued
• to make informed decisions about
– resource development and management,
– water supplies,
– land use,
– environmental impacts,
– natural hazard assessment, and
– waste disposal.
AVAILABLE DATA
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Location (= GIS, point and polygon data),
Production, reserves, resource potential
Geologic,
Geochemical (rock, water, ect.),
Well data,
Historical and recent photographs,
Mining methods, maps,
Ownership, and
Other data.
SHORT TERM GOALS
• Continue adding data to the database
from NMBGMR files
• Add detailed production data to the
database
• Add historic uranium photos to the
database
• Add polygon data showing extent of
uranium deposits in GIS format
• Add new geochemical data
LONG TERM GOALS
• Combine this database with the mines
database and put on the NMBGMR
WEB page (1-2 years)
• Provide a mechanism such that when
new data, especially geochemical, is
acquired, the database is easily
updated
• Add additional types of data
• Maintain quality control of the data