Summitville mine
The Summitville mine was a gold mining site in the United States, located in Rio Grande County, Colorado 25 miles south of Del Norte. It is remembered for the environmental damage caused in the 1980s by the leakage of mining by-products into local waterways and then the Alamosa River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Colorado, United States of America, United States of America
- Address: CO
Summitville mine
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Rio Grande, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.43612° or 37° 26′ 10″ northLongitude
-106.59782° or 106° 35′ 52″ westElevation
11,644 feet (3,549 metres)Open location code
859MCCP2+CVOpenStreetMap ID
node 369178702OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“Summitville mine” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Summitville Mine”
- French: “Mine de Summitville”
- French: “mine Summitville”
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