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The Cerrillos Mining District was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1973. [3] The park was originally created in 2003 by Santa Fe County with the assistance of the Cerrillos Hills Park Coalition. [1] Its name then was the Santa Fe County Cerrillos Hills Historic Park. [4]
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 .
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.
According to a 1904 dictionary of U.S. statutory language, "a mining district is a section of country usually designated by name and described or understood as being confined in certain boundaries, in which gold or silver or both are found in paying quantities, and which is worked therefor, under rules and regulations prescribed by the miners."
The 38,000-acre Borel fire in Kern County has leveled the tiny, historic mining town of Havilah. "We lost everything — it's all gone," Havilah resident Sean Rains told The Times on Sunday. "This ...
Native Americans worked the Cerrillos Hills for turquoise and galena beginning before 700 CE. The mines were particularly active at the peak of the Chaco culture, around 1000 to 1200 CE, and during the expansion of pueblo culture in the Rio Grande valley, in 1350 to 1680 CE. Turquoise mining was centered at Mount Calchihuitl and Turquoise Hill ...
The Mount Baker gold rush (1897 to mid 1920s) occurred in Whatcom County, Washington, United States, upon the discovery of the Lone Jack Mine.The Mount Baker area was flooded with prospectors which led to the staking of many claims both patented and unpatented.