Table 1.—Mineral production in 
New Mexico' 
 
 
 
1966 
1967 
 
Mineral 
Value 
Quantity (thousands) 
Quantity 
Value (thousands) 
Carbon dioxide (natural) thousand cubic feet_ -Clays thousand short tons.
-Coal (bituminous) do...... 
Copper (recoverable content of ores, etc.)  short tons. -Gem stones     
                                 Gold (recoverable content of ores, etc.)
troy ounces.... 
Gypsum thousand short tons...Helium thousand cubicfeet.Lead (recoverable
content of ores, etc.) short tons. -Lime thousand short tons. - 
Manganiferous ore (5 to 35 percent Mn) 
 short tons, gross weight -Natural gas (marketed) million cubic feet. -Natural
gas liquids:   LP gases thousand gallons. - 
   Natural gasoline and cycle products do - - -Perlite short tons.. 
Petroleum (crude) thousand 42-gallon barrels. - 
Potassium salts thousand short tons, K20 equivalent. - 
Pumice thousand short tons. - 
Salt                                        do...... 
Sandandgravel                               do.~ 
Silver (recoverable content of ores, etc.) - thousand troy ounces. - 
Stone thousand short tons....Uranium ' (recoverable content U,O,) thousand
pounds -Vanadium shorttons..Zinc (recoverable content of ores, etc.) do..

Value of items that cannot be disclosed: Cement, fluorspar (1967) iron ore,
manganese concentrate (35 percent or more Mn), 
mica (scrap), molybdenum, tin (1966), and values indicated by symbolW   
                                    
 
 Total                                       Total 1957—59 constant
dollars                     
 795,885 $58 W W 2,755 9,110 108, 614 78,571 NA 45 9,295 325 146 545 95,900
3,357 1,596 482 34 472 
 47,590 324 
998,076 124,760 
 816,202 31,832 338,732 19,736 343,334 3,423 124,154 352,101 2,953 108, 653
245 ' 787 66 716 15,503 13,029 243 314 2,652 4,056 9,340 74,721 W 53 29,296
8,496 
 XX 20,328 
 771,516 
46 
3,463 
 75,008 
NA 
5,188 
155 
 71,200 
1,827 
17 
 
 49,328 
1,067,510 
 
 909,168 
 338, 114 
 346,586 
 126,144 
2,883 
220 
82 
 14,672 
157 
1,391 
 11,202 
W 
 21,380 
 
 
 
XX 
$57 
74 
12,641 
57,345 
60 
182 
588 
 2,492 
512 
243 
 
348 
138,776 
 
40,003 
20,730 
 3,424 
368,340 
91,098 
 ' 639 
 1,036 
14,336 
244 
 2,403 
89,615 
W 
 5,919 
 
 
 
23,001 
 
XX ' 856,294 
XX 822, 513 
XX 
XX 
874,106 
832,858 
 rRevised. NA Not available. W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company
confidential data; included with "Value of items that cannot be disclosed."
XX Not applicable. 
 1 Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production
(including consumption by producers). 
 2 1966, f.o.b. mine and/or grinding plant; value 1967, f.o.b. mine. 
 Method of reporting changed from short tons of ore and f.o.b. mine value
(AEC Circular 5, Revised, price schedule) to recoverable pounds of uranium
oxide and f.o.b. mill value. 
  551The Mineral Industry 
of New Mexico 
By R. B. Stotelmeyer1 and William C. Henkest 
 
 
 Mineral production during 1967 in New Mexico was valued at $874.1 inillion—an
increase of $17.8 million over the 1966 figure. This new record high occurred
despite a 6-month labor strike in the copper industry that adversely affected
output of metals and despite a large drop in the prices for potassium salts
that caused a significant decrease 
in the value of nonmetals produced. Substantial increases in the output value
of nearly all the mineral fuels plus molybdenum and uranium accounted primarily
for the overall increase in the value of mineral production. 
 
 1 Mining engineer, Bureau of Mines, Socorro, N. Mex. 
 2 Petroleum engineer, Bureau of Mines, Denver, Cob.