Tererro Mill Tram Cache Traditional Cache
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Tererro Mill Aerial Tram Site
Cache is located at the Mill location of the 11 mile aerial Ore Tram operated from the Tererro Mine to this Mill site during the period of 1925-1939. All that is left is concrete footings for the Mill, aerial Tram, and power line. The Tererro Mill had a steam turbine power plant and large floation mill that refined the Tererro Mine / Pecos Mine ore output. Electrical power was supplied to the Mine via a power line paralleling the aerial tram from the Mill. The Mine and Mill produced some 2,200,000 tons of lead-zinc ore between 1926 and 1939. The Mine site is Tererro, NM (a Spanish term for mine dump) and is located at N 35 45.551 W 105 40.131. See a related cache "Tererro Mine Hospital Overlook" GC8474.
From Santa Fe, NM take NM Highway 50 East from I-25 toward Pecos, NM and turn North toward the Pecos waste transfer station road at N35 34.512 W105 41.620 about 1 mile West of Pecos, NM. It is best to approach this cache site from the North on the ridge. You can park at N35 36.404 W105 42.514 (parking elevation is 7319) and climb up to the ridge directly to the East. No Trail. There is an old road on top of the ridge that we did not investigate. Please stay on ridge above Mill to avoid disturbing the reclaimed area below. Mill, power plant, and spray pond footings can be observed from the road as you approach the parking area.
The Cache is a small ammo can at 7522 feet elevation. Look North at 12-15 degrees true and you can see the old power line and Tram right of way across the valley.
Exerpts from: In "Proceedings of Waste Management '95", University of
Arizona/DOE/WEC, Tucson AZ, March 1995.
"Though active mining ceased before World War II, substantial data is available on the nature of the materials handled at the mine and mill including the mill tailings. The ore body is reported to have been discovered in 1881, but not brought into production until 1927 by American Metals Company of New Mexico, The multi-mineral ore averaged 10.6% zinc, 3.3%
lead, 0.5% copper, 2.8 oz./ton silver and 0.1 oz./ton gold, and was processed at a 600 ton per day selective flotation mill until "water problems, labor disputes and bad ground at depth contributed to the mine's shutdown in 1939". Ore was transported to the mill and tailings site, the area of the El Molino unit, via a 12 mile aerial tramway."
From Art and Stones Newsletter, November 2001...... Pyrite, whose main use is as a source of sulfur for the manufacture of sulfuric acid, occurs in New Mexico primarily near Magdalena but was once mined at Terrero in San Miguel County. The mine, north of Pecos operated from 1927 to 1939; zinc, lead, copper, gold, and silver were recovered from ores containing sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, native gold and silver as well as pyrite. The
Terrero site is in the process of reclamation but was once a favorite spot for
local rockhounds.
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