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Carmen [50-5]

Occurrence in Puerto Rico, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085552
MRDS ID W701163
Record type Site
Current site name Carmen [50-5]

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.17029, 18.02845 (WGS84)
Relative position IN BARRIO DEL CARMEN, 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF GUAYAMA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Guayama Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cayey(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Puerto Rico C(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Siderite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

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 Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.17029, 18.02845
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • COUNTRY ROCK IS A CONGLOMERATE INTRUDED BY AUGITE-ANDESITES POSSIBLY IN THE FORM OF AN APOPHYSIS. THE ANDESITE SHOWS MANY MINERALIZED FAULTS, AND THROUGHOUT THE ANDESITE IS HIGHLY FRACTURED. MOST OF THE VEINS SHOW GALENA AND PYRITE. VEINS PENETRATING THE COUNTRY ROCKS ALWAYS SHOW MORE PYRITE THAN GALENA. SOME VEINS HAVE SPHALERITE ALONG WITH GALENA, THIS, AND THE OCCURRENCE AT CIALES BEING THE ONLY KNOWN PLACES IN THE ISLAND WHERE ZINC IS FOUND.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THERE IS REASON TO THINK THAT THE GALENA-PYRITE-SPHALERITE VEINS INCREASE IN TENOR AT DEPTH, AND ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF RECOVERING GOLD AND SILVER, THIS LOCALITY IS WORTHY OF MORE INVESTIGATION; METAL RESERVES ARE UNKNOWN, BUT THEY CERTAINLY HAVE NOT BEEN EXHAUSTED (MITCHELL, 1954, P. 109).

Comments on development

  • MINE

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

    MITCHELL, R. C., 1954, A SURVEY OF THE GEOLOGY OF PUERTO RICO: PUERTO RICO UNIV. AGR. EXPT. STA. TECH. PAPER 13, 167 P.

  • Production

    MITCHELL, 1954, P. 109.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
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-OCT-1991 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey

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