Mine detail: Cerro Colorado

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 37.68263, -6.65651

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold, Silver
Other material: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Digenite, Galena, Gold, Kaolinite, Limonite, Quartz, Silver, Sphalerite
Discovery year: 1556

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1967

Geology

References

MAS4690410001
DEP10254962
Reference{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.}
ReporterPorter, Kenneth E.