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NM State Symbols
Symbols for New Mexico: Geological and Archaeological Symbols
By Nora Kirkeby
Aug 22, 2006, 22:30 PST

New Mexico State Fossil
Check out the information on these small predatory lizards with hundreds of teeth, and find out when it became New Mexico's state fossil.
Source: State Fossils

Photo courtesy and © Roger Weller of Cochise College
New Mexico State Gem (Production History)
Check out the history of the turquoise mines in New Mexico. You can see the ammount made in turquoise sale by New Mexico yearly, and find out what the average miner was paid. In short, there is loads of information on this page.
Source: New Mexico Abandoned Mine Land Bureau

New Mexico State Gem
This is a great article on turquoise. If you want to see how turquoise relates to New Mexico in specific, scroll down to the New Mexico Section
Source: United State Geological Survey

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