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Beatriz

Past Producer in Caguas county in Puerto Rico, United States with commodities Zinc, Iron, Copper
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085516
MRDS ID W701114
Record type Site
Current site name Beatriz
Related records 10056830

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.06196, 18.18399 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Caguas(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Caguas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Eastern(hydrologic unit)

Puerto Rico(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puerto Rico(hydrologic subregion)

Caribbean(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Puerto Rico Caguas

Comments on the location information

  • BEATRIZ RIDGE. MINE ALONG QUEBRADA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Iron Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration Of Volcanics

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Tonalite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Tonalite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Formation J
    Rock description Formation J

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.06196, 18.18399
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nnw Trending Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE PLOTS IN THE CAGUAS PLUTON OF FORMATION J.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on development

  • MINERAL OCCURRENCE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COX, DENNIS P., AND BRIGGS, REGINALD P., 1973, METALLOGENIC MAP OF PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, MISCELLANEOUS GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-721, ACCOMPANIED BY EXPLANATORY PAMPHLET, 6 P.

  • Deposit

    ROGERS, C.L., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CAGUAS QUADRANGLE, PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISC. INV. MAP I-1152, SCALE 1:20,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ARGILLIC ALTERATION OF VOLCANICS. SMALL VEINLETS OF ZINC MINERALIZATION IN NNW TRENDING FAULT STRUCTURES.
Deposit [PREVIOUS UPDATER AND DATE: BAWIEC, WALTER J., 90 08.]

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1990 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1991 Carbonaro, Marguerite M. (Staude, John-Mark G.) U.S. Geological Survey

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