SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A gemstone mine that was once billed as a big potential job creator in a rural area of New Mexico has yet to get off the ground despite projections that it was supposed to be open by 2016. Businessman Daniel Burrell told the Santa Fe New Mexican (http://bit.ly/2qgGLHM) Friday that the project was simply halted, and not abandoned as the Alamogordo mayor had thought.