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The Cerrillos Hills were originally known by the Spanish as the Sierra de San Mateo. [1] In 1581, they discovered the lead-silver deposits there, which had earlier been used by the pueblo peoples as an ingredient in pottery glazes. [1] After the coming of the "Americans" the Cerrillos Mining District was created in 1879. [2]
The Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum contains hundreds of artifacts from the American Old West and the Cerrillos Mining District. It also displays cardboard cutouts of characters from the film Young Guns and information on other movies which have been filmed in and around Cerrillos.
Later that year, two miners from Colorado discovered gold and silver deposits within the Cerrillos Hills, which led to a mining boom and the establishment of numerous mining towns around the Cerrillos Hills. [2] [4] In September 1879, the Los Cerrillos Mining District was established to regulate mining claims within the region. [5]
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.
Jun. 24—CERRILLOS — On a recent afternoon, Cohdi Harrell sat in his car, phone in hand, outside of the Cerrillos Station general store. For Harrell and a lot of other residents here, the store ...
A second set of intrusions at 27.9 to 31.4 Ma took place after compression had reversed and the crust in the area was put into tension, and these took the form of dikes and stocks that are responsible for most of the deposits of metal ores in the mining district.
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."
(Reuters) - The Biden administration is set to reject the construction of an access road to the Ambler mining district in northern Alaska, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing two people with ...