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The Cerrillos Turquoise Mines are Ancestral Puebloan turquoise mines located in the Cerrillos Hills, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Archeologists believe that most of the turquoise found at Chaco Canyon was mined in the Cerrillos Hills. Many modern Pueblo people claim to have ancient rights to these mines. [1]
Los Cerrillos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 229 at the 2000 census. Accessible from State Highway 14 or The Turquoise Trail, Cerrillos is on the road from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, closer to Santa Fe
Turquoise mining was centered at Mount Calchihuitl and Turquoise Hill, the former producing an open pit 300 feet (91 meters) across and 200 feet (61 meters) deep, and was all done with stone tools. Lead was mined for pottery glaze at Mina del Tiro, Bathsheba, and numerous other locations.
Bonanza City is a ghost town, located 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Santa Fe in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. [1] The town was founded in 1880 as a mining town, following the discovery of gold and silver in the nearby Cerrillos Hills.
An intrusion sometime during the Tertiary emplaced a laccolith with an associated copper ore body that was mined at the Tyrone mine. [4] Deposits of turquoise in the mountains were mined by Native Americans , but most archeological evidence of the pre-European workings was destroyed by subsequent copper mining.
Two mining claims remain in the area, records show, and mining for metals like gold, silver and copper dates back to the 1900s. A uranium mining pit was established in 1954 but was closed the same ...
Semiprecious Gemstone: Nevada turquoise (1987) New Hampshire [48] Beryl (1985) Granite (1985); New Hampshire's nickname is the Granite State: Smoky quartz (1985) New Jersey [49] Franklinite [50] New Mexico [51] Turquoise (1967) New York [52] Garnet (1969) North Carolina [53] Gold (2011) Emerald (1973) North Dakota [54] Ohio [55] Ohio flint ...
Mar. 7—The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill by a resounding vote of 69-30 to extend radiation exposure compensation to New Mexico residents with health problems that stem from fallout of ...