CBS News Airs Report About the N.M. Mineral Museum

December 19, 2019


Reporter visited the museum and lauded the NMT division for its breadth of displays

 

"Sunday Morning" contributing videographer Judy Lehmberg visited the museum and published a full reporter that praised the museum as an "unexpected gem."

Minerals displays at the museumHere is an excerpt with a link to the full article at the bottom of this page. 

My husband jokes that, as a biologist and general wildlife lover, I'm only interested in something if it has four legs and a tail. And he is pretty much right – it has to be really special to draw my interest away from anything living. One special place is the New Mexico Mineral Museum, a crystal palace of mineral specimens on the campus of New Mexico Tech in Socorro, N.M.

Biologists are interested in living things mostly on the surface of the Earth; geologists think of plants and animals as the obstructions that get in their way when they want to get to the "good stuff" – the rocks and minerals that make up our Earth.

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