>>1161117Thats a shame, because there's so many better materials for sandpaper... like regular ol' quartz sand.
Another neat kind of gypsum you can find out in that region en masse, is south of whites city on US 190/62, theres some good outcrops of the Castile gypsum. I know there's also some nice selenite gypsum you can find out on the BLM land there, but a lot of them have claims staked upon them.
On that note, OP should probably check out Carlsbad Caverns. Shits definitely a worth while thing to check out in that part of the world.