1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Unidentified Sand and Gravel Quarry

Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056733
MRDS ID TC00799
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Sand and Gravel Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.87308, 18.49232 (WGS84)
Elevation 5
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Camuy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Puerto Rico C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Puerto Rico

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE E FLANK OF SIERRA DE LA HUERTA. ENTRANCE ROAD AVAILABLE.
  • NEAR KILOMETER MARKER KM. 2.2 ON ROUTE PR-485 IN BARRIO OF MEMBRILLO, TOWN OF CAMUY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.87308, 18.49232
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Jose R. Harrison Lugo

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Jose R. Harrison Lugo
  • Type Owner
    Owner Ela

Comments on the production information

  • THE MINING PERMIT ALLOWS FOR EXTRACTION AS AVAILABLE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: PLANT IN PAPAGAYOS, 6 KM FROM MINE ; MILL.CAP : 50 T/D

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RECORDS OF THE CORTEZA TERRESTRE (SURFACE MINING PERMITS OFFICE), PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, 1991.

  • Deposit

    MONROE, W.H., 1963, GEOLOGY OF THE CAMUY QUADRANGLE, PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAP GQ-197, SCALE 1:20,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IN FRACTURE ZONES AND BRECCIAS
Deposit THE RECORD NUMBER IN THE FILE LINK ID FIELD, WITH A PREFIX OF 'FP' OR 'R' IS THE MINING PERMIT NUMBER ASSIGNED TO THAT SITE BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO SURFACE MINING PERMITS OFFICE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1991 Corteza Terrestre/Surface Mining Permits Office Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Kibbe, R. D. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site