Summitville mine

Summitville mine
Superfund site
Summitville Mine
Summitville mine site in 1980
Geography
TownDel Norte
CountyRio Grande
StateColorado
Coordinates37°26′10″N 106°35′52″W / 37.43611°N 106.59778°W / 37.43611; -106.59778
Summitville mine is located in Colorado
Summitville mine
Summitville mine
Summitville mine's location in Colorado[1]
Information
CERCLIS IDCOD983778432[2]
ContaminantsHeavy metals[3]
Responsible
parties		EPA[2]
Progress
Proposed05/10/1993[2]
Listed05/31/1994[2]
List of Superfund sites
Detail of a 114-pound boulder which has an estimated 316 troy ounces of native gold. Auriferous volcanic breccia from the Little Annie Mine, Summitville. On display at Denver Museum of Nature and Science .

The Summitville mine was a gold mining site in the United States, located in Rio Grande County, Colorado 25 miles (40 km) 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.

  1. ^ "Toxic Release Inventory - Form R Reports". EPA. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  2. ^ a b c d "Summitville mine Superfund site progress profile". EPA. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  3. ^ "Summitville mine site description". EPA. Archived from the original on 2010-08-18. Retrieved 2010-01-22.