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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
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.
Location of Grant County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
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.
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. Native Americans had mined turquoise associated with the copper deposits at present-day Tyrone in Grant County ...
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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 .
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