Identify one natural resource found in New Mexico. Then, tell how that resource could be used to support a primary, secondary, and service activity.

New Mexico is blessed with plentiful natural resources making it a large net exporter of energy, generating 2,261 trillion BTu in 2011. While mineral extraction has been the primary, sustained economic driver for the state for 150 years, the oil and gas sector has been booming with returns of more than $2 billion in taxes and other revenue to the state annually.