Everything below comes straight from the federal record (USGS MRDS) — every documented gold occurrence, prospect and producer in New Mexico, mapped and readable for free. Not the famous names retold: the actual filed records, including the quiet ground between the famous districts.
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Principal recorded commodities: Sand and Gravel, Construction (2,722) · Uranium (723) · Gold (574) · Fluorine-Fluorite (504) · Copper (391) · Silver (370).
The counties with the most recorded gold occurrences — each links to its own page and into the live map of that ground (claims, creeks, roads and geology on):
| County | Gold records | Producers |
|---|---|---|
| Sierra County map → | 107 | 45 |
| Rio Arriba County map → | 79 | 19 |
| Grant County map → | 76 | 42 |
| Taos County map → | 71 | 22 |
| Lincoln County map → | 48 | 27 |
| Colfax County map → | 46 | 18 |
| Sandoval County map → | 30 | 27 |
| Hidalgo County map → | 27 | 15 |
| Santa Fe County map → | 27 | 13 |
| Catron County | 19 | 2 |
Sites the federal record lists with medium or large production — proven ground worth a careful, legal look at the country around it:
| Site | County | Status | Recorded size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cunningham Hill Mine | Santa Fe | Producer | Large |
| Aztec Mine | Colfax | Past Producer | Medium |
| Bluebird Fluorspar Deposit | Grant | Past Producer | Medium |
| Burke Mine | Luna | Past Producer | Medium |
| Groundhog Mine | Grant | Past Producer | Medium |
| Las Animas Placers | Sierra | Producer | Medium |
| Rambler Claim | Luna | Past Producer | Medium |
The free map shows every dot above. Membership opens the layers that turn dots into a plan — favorability at working zoom, active claims, land ownership, geology and the creeks that drain the known sources. The first 7 days are free.
The dots are the record. The method is how you read them: