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Table 11.—New Mexico: Crude potassium salts produced, and marketable
salts produced 
and sold or used 
 
 
(Thousand short tons 
and tho 
usand dollars) 
 
Period 
 
 Crude salts 1 (mine production) 
 
Marketable p 
otassium salts 
 
 
 
 
Production 
Sold or used 
 
 
Gross K2O weight equiv- 
alent 
Gross 
weight 
K2O 
equiv- Value 2 alent 
Gross K~O weight equiv- Value 
alent 
1971: 
 January-June 8,293 1,453 2,136 1,210 46,195 2,484 1,404 54,462 
 July-December 7,824 1,338 1,894 1,081 40,494 1,617 914 34,863 
 Total' 16,117 2,792 4,030 2,291 86,689 4,101 2,317 89,325 
 
1972: 
 January-June 8,718 1,460 2,128 1,187 47,018 2,336 1,294 51,400 
 July-December 8,567 1,411 1,994 1,108 44,097 1,753 991 38,461 
 Total' 17,285 2,871 4,122 2,296 91,115 4,089 2,285 89,861 
 
 1 Sylvite and langbeinite. 
 2 Derived from reported value of "Sold or used." 
 3 Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
 
Table 12.—New Mexico: Sand and gravd sold or used by producers, 
by class of operation and use 
(Thousand short tons and thousand dollars) 
Class of operation and use 
1971 
Quantity 
Value 
1972 
Quantity 
Value 
Commercial operations: 
 
 
 
 
Sand: 
 
 
 
 
Building                                   Fill                         
              
1,138 
 268 
1,503 
 136 
1,495 
 208 
2,124 
 135 
Paving                                   
Other uses '                                
 
Total'                                 
 
Gravel: 
441 
 
116 
452 
 
134 
 323 
(2) 
 325 
(2) 
 
1,964 
2,225 
2,027 
2,584 
 
 
 
 
 
Building                                 Fill                           
          
1,592 
 345 
2,249 
 65 
1,879 
 56 
2,572 
 42 
Paving                                  Miscellaneous                   
          
3,616 
 W 
1,778 
 W 
1,449 
 198 
1,580 
 116 
Other uses                               Total'                         
       
 
Government-and-contractor operations: 
Sand: 
55 
57 
(~) 
(4) 
 
5,609 
4,150 
3,582 
4,310 
 
 
 
 
 
Fill                                      
28 
27 
64 
30 
Paving                                   
Otberuses                                
 
Total                                  
 
Gravel: 
91 
2 
95 
1 
67 
4 
99 
5 
 
121 
123 
135 
134 
 
 
 
 
 
Fill                                      
Paving                                   
Otheruses                                
373 
769 
34 
 191 
1,253 
 33 
1,582 
 225 
 48 
1,299 
 186 
 41 
Total'                                 
1,175 
1,479 
1,856 
1,526 
Total sand and gravel                      
8,869 
7,975 
7,600 
8,553 
W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Other uses." 
' Includes other industrial sand (1971). 
2 Included with fill to avoid disclosing individual company confidential
data. 
' Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
Less than 3~2 unit. 
 
1971. There were nine pumice-producing operations in six counties. Twin Mountain
Rock Co. in Union County, General Pum 
 
icc Corp. in Rio Arriba County, and Morton Bros. in Doña Ana County
were the largest producers.