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The location is known as Potash on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps, and is east of Dead Horse Point State Park and Canyonlands National Park. [4] According to USGS reports, the Paradox Basin contains up to 2.0 billion tons (1.8 billion metric tonnes) of potash, with the primary mine being the one at Kane Creek. [5]
The Permian Basin deposit includes the major mines outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico, to the world's purest potash deposit in Lea County, New Mexico (near the Carlsbad deposits), which is believed to be roughly 80% pure.
Basins of the Rio Grande Rift Map of physiographic provinces of New Mexico. New Mexico is entirely landbound, with just 0.2% of the state covered with water, [1] and most of the state has an arid to semiarid climate. [2] Much of the state is mountainous, except for the easternmost Great Plains region. [3]
Early studies by Udden, and the presence of potash in the Santa Rita well between 1,100 and 1,700 feet, led to the United States Geological Survey exploring the area in search of potash, which was highly important during World War I as the US could no longer import it from Germany. By the mid-1960s, seven potash mines were operating on the New ...
Location map of the Paradox Basin [1] The Paradox Basin is an asymmetric foreland basin located mostly in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, but extending into northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. The basin is a large elongate northwest to southeast oriented depression formed during the late Paleozoic Era.
By earliest Permian time, during the Wolfcampian Epoch, the ovoid shaped subsiding Delaware Basin extended over 10,000 square miles (26,000 km 2) in what is now western Texas and southeast New Mexico. [1]: 193§1 This period of deposition left a thickness of 1,600 to 2,200 feet (490 to 670 m) of limestone interbedded with dark-colored shale.
New Mexico's other major center of population is in south-central area around Las Cruces, its second-largest city and the largest city in the southern region of the state. The Las Cruces metropolitan area includes roughly 214,000 residents, but with neighboring El Paso, Texas forms a combined statistical area numbering over 1 million.
This is accomplished by issuing permits to mining companies, inspecting mining operations, reclaiming abandoned mines, and education members of the public about mining. New Mexico heavily benefits from mined natural resources such as oil, copper, coal, petroleum, potash, molybdenum, uranium, gold, silver, and lead. [3]