Tererro Mine Hospital Overlook Traditional Cache
Tererro Mine Hospital Overlook
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Tererro Mine Hospital Overlook
The cache overlooks the Tererro Mine Hospital location where I was born in 1932. All that remains is part of the concrete footings from the hospital. The Mine hospital handled the general medical needs of the 3000 person mine camp and emergencies from the Mine. The hospital had one of the best bone surgeons of the time. The spelling for the mine town is Tererro, NM on my birth certificate, although many documents have Terrero, NM.
The Tererro Mine Site is located approximately 1/2 mile north of the hospital site at N35 45.550 W105 40.132.
Take I-25 from Santa Fe, NM, turn East on NM highway 50 to Pecos, NM. Take NM highway 63 about 12 miles North. Turn left on the Holy Ghost Campground road just below the Tererro, NM postoffice. The hospital location is across the river on the 1st road to the right. Park at N35 44.488 W105 40.717.
The cache is a medium size ammo can located up the hill from the hospital site and has a grand view of the Pecos River. Please cover cache to hide from general view after accessing.
See a related Cache "Tererro Mill Tram Cache GC845B".
Exerpts from: In "Proceedings of Waste Management '95", University of
Arizona/DOE/WEC, Tucson AZ, March 1995. Proceedings on CR-ROM from WM
Symposiums, Inc. Wm. Paul Robinson, Southwest Research and Information Center P.
O. Box 4524, Albuquerque, NM 87106
See (visit link) for full Report.
"BACKGROUND The spectacularly beautiful Upper Pecos River Valley of northern New Mexico lies 20 miles ..." East "... of Santa Fe. The valley is the setting for the Village of Pecos, an abandoned Pueblo Indian community now protected at Pecos National Monument, heavily used recreational attractions associated with enjoyment of the world-renowned Pecos Wilderness and other areas in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains within Santa Fe National Forest and the high-quality fishing and camping opportunities along the river. It is also the site of a long inactive mine and mill complex which produced some 2,200,000 tons of lead-zinc ore between 1926 and 1939. The mine site at Terrero (a Spanish term for mine dump) is well known by many of the 3,500 local residents and area visitors. It borders the highway which provides access to the high country of the Pecos Wilderness and is found at the mouth of Willow Creek, a local tributary to the Pecos River. ....... 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.2 Following removal of values, mill tailings were discharged into two impoundments behind embankments across Alamitos Canyon. ...... Though the mine and mill complex were privately operated, the State of New Mexico acquired the sites, except for mineral rights, in 1950. At that time, the New Mexico Game Commission purchased the mine and mill site from Pecos Estates, Inc., the corporation to which the mine operator American Metals of New Mexico had transferred the real property and minerals from the Pecos Mine and El Molino sites in 1939 after shutdown. American Metal Company Limited of New York was the majority shareholder in American Metal Company of New Mexico. The recently formed Cyprus-Amax Minerals Company is the successor corporation to American Metals Company. ...."
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