page_title: Summitville mine
hierarchical_section_title: Summitville mine
caption_attribution_description: English: Summitville gold mine, Colorado, USA.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Summitville mine site in 1980
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