CERRILLOS HILLS STATE PARK

Documents on the archaeology, ecology, and history of the Cerrillos Hills Mining District (New Mexico)

THE GENESIS OF TURQUOISE IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

(2004) by Phillips, Fayek, Anovitz, Mathien, Milford & Hull. The latest information about where and how the mineral turquoise is formed, and what happens to it, geologically, after that.

THE TRICULTURAL USES OF THE CERRILLOS MINES

(1998) by Frances Joan Mathien. A short survey of the history of Native American, Spanish & Mexican, and Anglo-American mining in the Cerrillos Hills.

DICTIONARY OF NEW MEXICO SPANISH MINING TERMS

Idiomatic New Mexico Spanish mining and ore processing terms from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries.

ABANDONED MINES AS BAT HABITAT

(1998) by J. Scott Altenbach. Twenty-eight of the 45 species of bats found in the continental United States are known to roost in underground mines.

THE TURQUOISE MINING HISTORY OF THE LOS CERRILLOS AREA

(1995) by Homer Milford. In the beginning it was the promise of turquoise that drew people to the oldest mining area in the United States.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF MINING IN THE CERRILLOS HILLS, 1880

Photographs of the Galisteo and Cerrillos Mining Districts were taken in the Spring of 1880 by George C. Bennett.

BIRTH OF A CITY

by Jane C. Sanchez. A 'you are there' piece on the beginnings of the Village of Cerrillos assembled from newspaper notices from the 1880s.

CERRILLOS IN THE 1880s

by Jane C. Sanchez. News clippings taken from MINING WORLD; Life around Cerrillos and its mines during the boom years.

From THE NEW MEXICAN

Historical items from THE NEW MEXICAN newspaper on Cerrillos and the Hills.

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID...

Quotes about New Mexico, mines, and the Cerrillos Hills.

CULTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY FOR THE REAL de los CERRILLOS

(1995) by Homer Milford. A comprehensive survey of one of the oldest mining areas in the United States.

TURQUOISE

The mineral in the world, in the Southwest and in the Cerrillos Hills.

This website is maintained by the Cerrillos Hills Park Coalition
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of an historical, recreational, and cultural open space in the
Cerrillos Hills, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA

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