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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.
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 . History
Romero, Anthony (2007) Finding the Lost Santa Rita/Janos Trail, Silver City Museum, Silver City, New Mexico, OCLC 631774496 This article about a location in the Mexican state of Chihuahua is a stub .
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.
Baca Float No. 3 is in Santa Cruz County in southern Arizona. Watts selected the grant area in the valley of the Santa Cruz River and the Santa Rita Mountains. The grant was controversial from the beginning. The float violated the U.S. government's requirement that land in the floats be unoccupied and lack mining potential.
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.
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A former mining town that also once contained the only medical facility between Albuquerque and Gallup. Baldy Town: Baldy Mining Camp: Colfax: 1888: 1940: Historic site: The site is part of the Philmont Boy Scout Ranch. It has stone ruins, mill foundations, a chimney, mine tailings, and a smelter slag pile. [1] Bard-Quay--Abandoned site ...