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Company. Freeport-McMoRan Inc. The Chino Mine ("Chino" is Spanish for the "Chinese"), also known as the Santa Rita mine or Santa Rita del Cobre, is an American open-pit porphyry copper mine located in the town of Santa Rita, New Mexico 15 miles (24 km) east of Silver City. The mine was started as the Chino Copper Company in 1909 by mining ...
Santa Rita, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32°48′13″N 108°03′39″W. Santa Rita in 1919 with mine in background. Santa Rita is a ghost town in Grant County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The site of Chino copper mine, Santa Rita was located fifteen miles (24.1 km) east of Silver City.
The El Chino is an open-pit copper mine near Silver City, New Mexico. The Santa Rita mine in southwest New Mexico was the first copper mine in what is now the western United States. Spaniards began mining copper there about 1800. The district still produces copper, from the large Chino Mine open pit.
The Santa Fe acquired this line in 1898 and extended it another 4 miles to Santa Rita. The line struggled until 1910 when the Chino Copper Company acquired the copper resources, with sufficient financial backing to develop the open pit Chino mine, and also build the smelter at Hurley.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaking at a listening session on Oct. 27, 2023 about a proposed aggregate mine in Chino Valley. One of the most moving pleas came from Jen Ashcraft, a 9/11 ...
M85 Kennecott Copper Co., Chino Mines, Santa Rita, NM received the first three M85s produced, serial numbers 52, 53, and 54. Serial #51 was their factory prototype. M100; M120; M200 (The first 200 tonne capacity truck with two axles)
Fort Santa Rita. Fort Santa Rita was created in 1804 by the Spanish to protect the copper mines of Santa Rita (Grant County), in New Mexico. It had a triangular shape and three towers. It was built by a civilian, Manuel Elguea. It was the target of constant attacks by the Apaches and in 1838 it was abandoned by the Centralist Republic of Mexico.
2413285 [3] Website. www.townofsilvercity.org. Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat [5] and the home of Western New Mexico University. As of the 2010 census the population was 10,315. [6] As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,704.