Scientific data near [32.50500,-103.78000]

Search area extends approximately 2.2 km east-west and 2.6 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Eddy	county
New Mexico	state
United States	country
North America	continent
Land	continent
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS
Williams Sink	quadrangle 1:24,000 scale
Hobbs	quadrangle 1:100,000 scale
Hobbs	quadrangle 1:250,000 scale
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units)
Upper Pecos-Black	hydrologic unit
Upper Pecos	hydrologic accounting unit
Upper Pecos	hydrologic subregion
Rio Grande	hydrologic region

Geology of US states

Digital geologic maps of the US states with consistent lithology, age, GIS database structure, and format

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Unit	State	Lithology
Eolian and piedmont deposits	NM	Holocene to middle Pleistocene
Piedmont alluvial deposits	NM	Holocene to lower Pleistocene
Upper Chinle Group, Garita Creek through Redonda Formations, undivided	NM	Upper Triassic

Airborne geophysical surveys

Aerial surveys of magnetic anomaly and gamma ray emission; older surveys were analog record which have been digitized, newer surveys collected data in digital form.

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ID	Data type	Description
GNOME ARMS North	M-Dz	GNOME ARMS North 2816 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of NM
Hobbs	M/R-D	Hobbs 5421 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NM-TX

The continental crust

Seventy-seven major components of the North American continent were delineated at a general scale (1:5,000,000); including the general composition, geological environment, and types of primary metals endowments that can be expected in each domain.

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Domain	Crust type	Region
Mazatzal	Lateral-extensional orogen	Central and Southwest

Evaporite-related potash permissive tracts

Estimates of the number of undiscovered evaporite-related potash deposits

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Tract	Deposit Type
Permian	stratabound potash-bearing salt	Likely to have exploitable undiscovered resources
Permian Rustler	stratabound potash-bearing salt	Likely to have exploitable undiscovered resources
Permian Salado	stratabound potash-bearing salt	Likely to have exploitable undiscovered resources

Major mineral deposits of the world

Regional locations and general geologic setting of known deposits of major nonfuel mineral commodities. Originally compiled in five parts by diverse authors, combined here for convenience despite likely inconsistencies among the regional reports.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Commodity
Carlsbad Potash District - Hobbs	Sedimentary	potash

Geochemistry of stream sediments in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

National-scale geochemical analysis of stream sediments and soils in the US collected and analyzed under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program.

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Sample ID	Date collected	Sample type
5223745	1976-10-28	Dry natural-pond sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves.

Evaporite-related potash resources: deposits and permissive tracts worldwide

Includes descriptions of 981 known occurrences and deposits as well as qualitative assessment of undiscovered resource potential in 84 permissive tracts.

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Record	Type	Comment
Hobbs
Intrepid East

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Hobbs Mine	Producer	K
New Mexico Potash Corp.	Producer	K NA_S

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Eastern Alkaline Province	porphyry copper	A belt of Tertiary alkaline granitic rocks associated with back-arc or postsubduction extension
Tertiary Central Plateau and Rocky Mountains	porphyry copper	Belt of middle Tertiary (Oligocene-Miocene) granitic to intermediate intrusive rocks & volcanics associated w/post-Laramide stage of magmatism in northern Mexico and Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated w/post-subduction extension in eastern Rocky Mtns

Prospect- and mine-related features on USGS topographic maps

Symbols indicating mining-related features digitized from historical USGS topographic maps in the western part of the conterminous US. Includes prospect pits, mine shafts and adits, quarries, open-pit mines, tailings piles and ponds, gravel and borrow pit

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Feature ID	Feature type	Feature name
Mine Shaft	point
Mine Shaft	point
Tailings - Undifferentiated	polygon

Critical mineral deposits of the United States

Mineral deposit information drawn from USGS databases, industry reports, and scientific literature totalling 681 individual mineral deposits documented to contain critical minerals. Data are provided in Esri file geodatabase, Microsoft Excel, shapefile, and CSV formats.

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Deposit name	Deposit type	Critical minerals
Carlsbad East	Potash	potash