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Found Here
Mining history
- Status
- Past Producer
- Operation type
- Surface-Underground
- Workings
- Surface
- Discovered
- 1556
- First production
- 1967
Records and references
1976-77 WORLD MINES REGISTERWORLD MINING, SEPT 1971-CERRO COLORADO: BIG NEW COPPER PIT ARIO TINTO SPAIN P 42WORLD MINING. RIO TINTO - TREASURE OF THE AGES: MINING FROM1100 B.C. TO PRESENT. SEPT. 1978, PP. 137-139. MINING MAGAZINE. APRIL 1979, P. 295. JONES, M.J. GEOLOGICAL MINING AND METALLURGICAL SAMPLING. INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, 1974, PP. 156-173. MCQUISTAN, F.W., JR., AND R.S. SHOEMAKER. GOLD AND SILVERCYANIDATION PLANT PRACTICE MONOGRAPH. AIME, 1975,PP. 155-158. WESTERN MINER, RIO TINTO MINERA SA CERRO COLORADO PROJECT,MAR. 1983, P. 12. SKILLING'S MINING REVIEW, MAR. 25, 1989, P. 6. MORRAL, F.R., A MINI-HISTORY OF THE RIO TINTO (SPAIN)REGION, CIM BULL., MAR. 1990, P. 150-154. MINING MAGAZINE. VOL. 125, NO. 6, DEC. 1971, PP. 528-539. WORLD MINING. CERRO COLORADO: BIG NEW COPPER PIT AT FAMEDRIO TINTO SPAIN. SEPT. 1971, PP. 42-46. SKILLING'S MINING REVIEW, NOV. 18, 1989, P. 4-7. ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1989-90, E&MJ. INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING, 1989, P. 291.
Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10254962 — view the source record
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Location on Map
Coordinates: 37.68263, -6.65651
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals
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