Copper Flat

Hillsboro Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA

A large copper-porphyry deposit worked for copper ore.

Mindat lists 25 minerals from the site, primarily copper ore minerals.

There is a fantastic amount of information about this site in the links below – including writeups of the site, histories, and geology.

 

Further reading

 

 

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