Uria 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. Ownership information
  13. Reserves and resources
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078505
MRDS ID W026855
Record type Site
Current site name Uria Group
Alternate or previous names Grupo Uria, Valentines, Includes Apretado, Aurora, Isabel, Las Tunas

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -55.22103, -33.18766 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position 260 KM N OFMONTEVIDEO, 10 KM W OF VALENTINES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Florida(province)

Uruguay(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Uruguay Florida

Comments on the location information

  • THIS DEPOSIT IS MADE UP OF: CERRO APRETADO, CERRO AURORA, AND CERRO ISABEL.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Apatite Gangue
Augite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Serpentine Gangue
Sphene Gangue

Analytical data

Result CHEMISTRY OF RESERVES IN PERCENT: FE, 38
Result SIO2 , 41
Result S, 0.04
Result AND P, 0.06
Result TIO2, 0.06-0.12%.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Lavalleja Series
    Rock description Lavalleja Series
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -55.22103, -33.18766

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDS OF ITABIRITE
    Dip 60-70W
    Thickness 4.5M
    Length 800M
  • General form BEDS OF ITABIRITE
    Dip 60-70W
    Thickness 5.6M
    Length 500M
  • General form BEDS OF ITABIRITE
    Dip 60-70W
    Thickness 2.8M
    Length 1000M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Valentines District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Yacimientos Mineros De Valentines S. A.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1970
    Measured 17800000000mt ore
    Indicated 5200000000mt ore
    Inferred 5450000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Iron Fe 38 wt-pct Iron Major 1970

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • DATA ABOVE FOR URIA GROUP OF THE VALENTINES DEPOSIT. TOTAL, INCLUDING THE MULERO, MOROCHOS, AND OTHER GROUPS (ALTHOUGH NOT PROSPECTED IN DETAIL AS THE URIA GROUP) COULD BE UP TO 100 MILLION METRIC TONS OF ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALVARADO, BENJAMIN, 1970 , IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF SOUTH AMERICA, IN SURVEY OF WORLD IRON ORE RESOURCES -- OCCURRENCE AND APPRAISAL: NEW YORK, UNITED NATIONS, P. 302 - 380

  • Deposit

    BOSSI, JORGE, AND UMPIERRE, MIRTA, 1969 , LA PETROLOGIA DEL MINERAL DE HIERRO DE VALENTINES, FLORIDA, URUGUAY (THE PETROLOGY OF THE IRON ORE OF VALENTINES, FLORIDA, URUGUAY): ARGENTINA JORNADAS GEOLOGICAS, 4 TH, MENDOZA 1969 , ACTAS, V. 1 , P. 127 - 147

  • Deposit

    BOSSI, JORGE, 1969 , RECURSOS MINERALES DEL URUGUAY (MINERAL RESOURCES OF URUGUAY): MONTEVIDEO, EDIT, NUESTRA TIERRA, 68 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Reserve-Resource

    ALVARADO, BENJAMIN, 1970

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit (1) CERRO APRETADO; (2) CERRO AURORA; (3) CERRO ISABEL.
Deposit ORE OUTCROPS IN A SERIES OF HILLS CONTAINING SEVERAL BEDS, 10 - 50 M THICK, OF SILICEOUS HEMATITE (ITABIRITE) INTERBEDDED WITH FELDSPAR GNEISSES, ALSO WITH MAGNETITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1992 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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