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Uranium mining in New Mexico. Uranium mining in New Mexico was a significant industry from the early 1950s until the early 1980s. Although New Mexico has the second largest identified uranium ore reserves of any state in the United States (after Wyoming), no uranium ore has been mined in New Mexico since 1998.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt ...
BG Richard L. McCabe (2007–2008) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County ...
FIPS code. 35-32520. GNIS feature ID. 2410771 [1] Website. www.hobbsnm.org. Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 40,508 at the 2020 census, [4] increasing from 34,122 in 2010. Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Lea County.
New Mexico Central Railroad: ATSF: 1908 1918 New Mexico Central Railway: New Mexico Central Railway: ATSF: 1918 1972 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: New Mexico Gateway Railroad: NMGR 2001 2006 N/A New Mexico Midland Railway: 1904 1931 none, route abandoned [1] hauled coal from Carthage to San Antonio, NM [1] New Mexico and Southern ...
Date. December 10, 1967. Test type. Underground. Yield. 29 kt. Project Gasbuggy was an underground nuclear detonation carried out by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on December 10, 1967 in rural northwestern New Mexico. It was part of Operation Plowshare, a program designed to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosions.
By August 1946 a total of 1,600 airplanes had been flown to Hobbs Army Airfield for storage, including the Douglas A-26 Invader and P-51 Mustang. [7] Hobbs Army Airfield was decommissioned by the United States Air Force on 5 May 1948 and the land reacquired by the City of Hobbs, New Mexico later that year. By the 1960's the airport became the ...
Dulce Base. Dulce Base is the subject of a conspiracy theory claiming that a jointly-operated human and alien underground facility exists under Archuleta Mesa on the Colorado–New Mexico border near the town of Dulce, New Mexico, in the United States. [1] Claims of alien activity there first arose from Albuquerque businessman Paul Bennewitz.