New Mexico and eastern Arizona mineral deposits fieldtrip
February 14th-28th 2001
| Day 1 (Wednesday 14th) Flight from Montréal to Albuquerque NM. Drive to Grants, stop at the McCartys Flow. |
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| Day 2 (Thursday 15th) Visit Grants' New Mexico Mining Museum. Drive to Farmington |
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| Day 3 (Friday, 16th) Visit the San Juan coal mine (San Juan Coal Company). Visit Aztec ruins, and sunset at Shiprock. |
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| Day 4 (Saturday, 17th) Drive to Four Corners, through Monument Valley AZ, and to Holbrook AZ. |
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| Day 5 (Sunday 18th) Visit the Petrified Forest, drive to Morenci. |
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| Day 6 (Monday 19th) Visit the Morenci mine. Drive to Silver City NM. |
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| Day 7 (Tuesday, 20th) Visit the Chino mine. Drive to Lordsburg. |
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| Day 8 (Wednesday, 21st) Visit the Steeple Rock district with Virginia McLemore of the New Mexico Bureau of Mine and Mineral Resources. Drive to Deming. |
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| Day 9 (Thursday, 22nd) Visit the Victorio district and the Copper Flat mine. Drive to Alamogordo. |
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| Day 10 (Friday, 23rd) Visit the Orogrande district, and the White Sands National Monument. Drive to Carlsbad. |
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| Day 11 (Saturday, 24th) Visit the Mississippi Potash mine and Carlsbad caves. |
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| Day 12 (Sunday, 25th) Drive to Socorro (through Roswell). |
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| Day 13 (Monday, 26th) Visit the New Mexico mineral museum. Visit of the Waldo mine, used by the NMT as a research facility. Visit the Very Large Array. Get-together with NMT Student Chapter members. |
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| Day 14 (Tuesday, 27th) Drive to Albuquerque. Visit the Natural Sciences Museum. |
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| Day 15 (Wednesday, 28th) Fly back to Montréal. |
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