The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Summer 2016 issue of "New Mexico Earth Matters" is now available and features a story about the gemstones of New Mexico and the varying geological deposits they came from. Additionally they announced that the Association of American State Geologists and Geological Society of America Frye Award for Best Paper on Environmental Geology went to the Bureau's publication "Geology and Hydrology of Groundwater-Fed Springs and Wetlands in La Cienega, Santa Fe County, New Mexico."