Mine detail: Cerro Colorado

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Location:	Spain, Europe
Lat / long:	37.68263, -6.65651
dep_id:	10254962
mas_id:	4690410001
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Copper
Minor mineral:	Gold, Silver
Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
other_matl:	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Digenite, Galena, Gold, Kaolinite, Limonite, Quartz, Silver, Sphalerite
work_type:	Surface
Reporter:	Porter, Kenneth E.
Year first produced:	1967
disc_yr:	1556
References:	Deposit:: 1976-77 WORLD MINES REGISTER Deposit:: WORLD MINING, SEPT 1971-CERRO COLORADO: BIG NEW COPPER PIT A Deposit:: RIO TINTO SPAIN P 42 Deposit:: WORLD MINING. RIO TINTO - TREASURE OF THE AGES: MINING FROM Deposit:: 1100 B.C. TO PRESENT. SEPT. 1978, PP. 137-139. Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE. APRIL 1979, P. 295. Deposit:: JONES, M.J. GEOLOGICAL MINING AND METALLURGICAL SAMPLING. Deposit:: INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, 1974, PP. 156-173. Deposit:: MCQUISTAN, F.W., JR., AND R.S. SHOEMAKER. GOLD AND SILVER Deposit:: CYANIDATION PLANT PRACTICE MONOGRAPH. AIME, 1975, Deposit:: PP. 155-158. Deposit:: WESTERN MINER, RIO TINTO MINERA SA CERRO COLORADO PROJECT, Deposit:: MAR. 1983, P. 12. Deposit:: SKILLIN* MINING REVIEW, MAR. 25, 1989, P. 6. Deposit:: MORRAL, F.R., A MINI-HISTORY OF THE RIO TINTO (SPAIN) Deposit:: REGION, CIM BULL., MAR. 1990, P. 150-154. Reserve-Resource:: MINING MAGAZINE. VOL. 125, NO. 6, DEC. 1971, PP. 528-539. Reserve-Resource:: WORLD MINING. CERRO COLORADO: BIG NEW COPPER PIT AT FAMED Reserve-Resource:: RIO TINTO SPAIN. SEPT. 1971, PP. 42-46. Reserve-Resource:: SKILLIN* MINING REVIEW, NOV. 18, 1989, P. 4-7. Reserve-Resource:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1989-90, E&MJ. Reserve-Resource:: INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING, 1989, P. 291.