"JURASSIC CANYON" EMBROIDERED
IRON-ON / SEW-ON PATCH
A New Mexico Mining Location
with Real Dinosaur Fossils
$9.50 each plus $1.00 shipping
JURASSIC CANYON is a high-elevation
(6600 ft) mining area located 22 miles NW
of Grants NM, in North/Central New
Mexico. It lies in the shadow, four miles
away, from a long-extinct volcano, Mount
Taylor. During the Jurassic era, 200
million to 146 million years ago, active
rocks were lifted from deep underground
and were spewed onto the canyon area.
The mined minerals of the canyon were
Jurassic Todilto Limestone, Carnotite,Uraninite, Coffinite,
and Tyuyamunite. The mines were abandoned
in 1989, but are likely soon to
be restored because of rising mineral
prices worldwide. The canyon was heavily
populated with many ancient
species of dinosaurs, especially with
ALLOSAURUS, a large dinosaur
predator that dominated New Mexico for
60 million years.The Allosaurus theropod
carnivorous species is known as the
"King of the Radioactive Dinosaurs."
The Allosaurus was long extinct before
the T-Rex appeared in New Mexico 70
million years ago, shortly before the
asteroid impact killed off all existing
dinosaurs. The Allosaurus and
Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur species
never encountered each other at the
Jurassic Canyon location.
My hobby, as a retired college professor,
is rockhounding: I have collected rocks
at Jurassic Canyon with 35 multi-day
trips there since 2014. In my early
rockhounding trips I visited the canyon
alone, but during the past seven years I
have had others with me. I need others
because the canyon has large
rattlesnakes. I fear that if I suffered a
snake bite, I might be unable to drive the
car to the nearest hospital at Grants, 22
miles from the Canyon. A companion
could drive the car instead of the snakebite victim.
TV SERIES: THE DINO HUNTERS
This video series of hour-long shows
began in 2010 on the Discovery-Science
TV channel. Two seasons of 60min
shows have already been aired; the third
season of new programs will be aired
beginning in July this year. The series
staff are cowboy types mainly from
Montana and Wyoming; they search for
dinosaur fossils on private lands, which
they then sell to natural history
museums. Two episodes of DINO
HUNTERS were based at the
Abercrombie Ranch in eastern New
Mexico, focusing on the Woolly
Mammoth fossils that were recovered
there. Soon, I will invite that series'
producers to do a 60min episode at
Jurassic Canyon. This canyon's fossils
differ from those found elsewhere,
because they are affected by the activity
of the minerals that exist in the canyon.
Two photos near the end of the picture
series show two small radioactive
fossilized dinosaur skulls that I found at
the canyon in June 2021, most likely
these are juvenile veociraptor skulls.
The LAST PHOTOS show a large
dinosaur bone fossil, recovered from
active mined minerals, being displayed at
the New Mexico Mining Museum, at
downtown Grants NM.
JURASSIC CANYON
EMBROIDERED CLOTH PATCHES
These are available with either of two
background colors: RED or YELLOW.
The patches are genuine embroidered
cloth: They can be ironed-on, or sewn-
on. On my own brown prospecting shirts,
I have my seamstress do both
methods for attaching the patch to the
shirt's cloth. On Ebay, there are many
ads for patches for the "Jurassic
Park" six-movie series. The big
difference between Jurassic Park and
Jurassic Canyon is that Jurassic Park
is a fictional movie series, whereas Jurassic
Canyon is a real location in New
Mexico, which was inhabited during the
ancient Jurassic era by real dinosaurs!
The New Mexico Museum of Natural
History at Albuquerque even claims that
many dinosaur species were only found
here, NOT in other states or countries.
One of the five minerals mined at the
canyon, Jurassic Todilto Limestone, is
found there and at no other locations
worldwide. Among other papers I will
enclose with your cloth patch, I will send
a photocopy of a scientific paper I wrote
about the JTL mineral rock. This mineral
type is unique because it is the rock type
that is most likely to contain dinosaur
fossils, at this site. At the end of my
photo series, you will see the two small
juvenile velociraptor dinosaur fossils that
I found at the canyon, in June 2021.
Wikipedia claims that the Jurassic
Canyon movies exaggerated the size of
velociraptors; the movies portrayed
these dinosaurs as being 6-8 ft tall;
actually, the adult velociraptor dinos
were merely the size of large dogs.
Stephen Buggie, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup
Gallup NM 87301-6979