Los Negritos Group

Occurrence in Florida, Uruguay with commodity Iron
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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10061830
MRDS ID TC34798
Record type Site
Current site name Los Negritos Group
Alternate or previous names Grupo Los Negritos Includes Don Zenon, Ceballos, Los Gauchos Morochos, Valentines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -55.19298, -33.18766 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position 7 KM WEST OF VALENTINES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Florida(province)

Uruguay(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Uruguay Florida

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -55.19298, -33.18766

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 600 M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Valentines

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • POSSIBLE RESERVES FOR VOLUME OF ROCK = 960,000 CUBIC METERS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BOSSI, JORGE, 1978, RECURSOS MINERALES DEL URUGUAY: ED. DANIEL ALJANATI, IMPRESORA REX S.A., MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, 348 P

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Reserve-Resource

    BOSSI (1978).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1992 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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