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Puerto Real

Occurrence in Puerto Rico, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10023033
MRDS ID GEM1114
Record type Site
Current site name Puerto Real
Alternate or previous names Cantera

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -67.19948, 18.04234 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 MILES NORTH OF PUERTO REAL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cabo Rojo Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Puerto Real(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Puerto Rico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern(hydrologic unit)

Puerto Rico(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puerto Rico(hydrologic subregion)

Caribbean(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Puerto Rico

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE LONGITUDE, THE ESTIMATE OF 12 MINUTES IS UNCERTAIN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Silicification And Stockwork Veining

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -67.19948, 18.04234
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Along Nw Trends Of Alteration Zone From Almarejo To Coast

Ore body information

  • General form LARGE AREA OF INTENSE STOCKWORK VEIN
    Length 914.4M
    Width 609.6M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1957
Discoverer A.D. Fraser,

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp.
    First year 1965

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LUDDEN, 1961, REPORT ON GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE IN CABO ROJO AND SAN GERMAN-SABANA GRANDE PERMIT AREA, PUERTO RICO: PHELPS DODGE PRIVATE REPORT ON FILE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, PUERTO RICO

  • Deposit

    PHELPS DOG

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LIMITED POTENTIAL FOR VERTICALLY ZONED COPPER ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1990 Mckelvey, G.E. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Phelps Dodge Corp. — acquired by Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Acquired by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold in 2007 in what was then the largest mining-industry deal ever (~US$26 B).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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