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

Pis Pis Placers

Occurrence in Nicaragua with commodity Gold
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10086137
MRDS ID W702066
Record type Site
Current site name Pis Pis Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -84.61993, 14.10088 (WGS84)
Relative position IN HEADWATERS OF RIO PIS PIS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nicaragua(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Nicaragua

Comments on the location information

  • SET OF SEMI PARALLEL E TO ENE STRIKING VEIN SYSTEMS CENTERED ON TOWN OF SANTO DOMINGO (LAT/LONG GIVEN ABOVE) EXTENDING 4 KM E AND W OF TOWN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FINE AU ASSOCIATED WITH PYRRHOTITE, NOT PYRITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -84.61993, 14.10088
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE NW NORMAL FAULTS DIVIDED THE NE STRIKING VEINS INTO SEPARATE BLOCKS. THE UPPER COYOL GROUP CONSISTS OF RHYOLITIC-DACITIC IGNIMBRITES AND TUFFS, AND BASALT FLOWS, 400 M. THE LOWER COYOL GROUP CONSISTS OF BASIC TO INTERMEDIATE LAVA FLOWS, 300 M. THE MATAGALPA GROUP CONSISTS OF VOLCANOCLASTICS, 230 M. THE CARACOL FORMATION CONSISTS OF SILICIC SHALES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • TONNAGE CALCULATED ON 5,500 TONS ORE PER MONTH.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ORE (1) NANCITE PROBABLE.

Comments on the workings information

  • JABALI WAS WORKED UNDERGROUND MANY YEARS AGO. IT WAS A MAJOR PRODUCER FOR NICARAGUA. OTHER VEINS WORKED MOSTLY UNDERGROUND AND IN SMALL PITS ON SURFACE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: THE MILL FOR THE JABALI MINE NO LONGER EXISTS, BUT A SMALL COOPERATIVELY RUN HAMMER MILL SUPPORTS A LARGE NUMBER OF SMALL MINERS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    INSTITUTO CENTROAMERICANO DE INVESTIGACION Y TECNOLOGIA INDUSTRIAL (ICAITI), 1970, MAPA METRALOGENETIO DE AMERICA CENTRAL; 1:2000000 & ESTUDIOS METALOGENETICOS DE AMERICA CENTRAL: PUBLICIONES GEOLOGICAS DEL ICAITI NUMERO III, 76 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS CLOSELY SPACED IN BELT 1 MILE WIDE, ORE SHOOTS DISTRIBUTED ERRATICALLY. THICKNESS 400 M? FOR JABALI.
Deposit LA LIBERTAD (W702056) AND SANTO DOMINGO ARE REALLY TWO PARTS OR SUBDISTRICTS OF A SINGLE 20 X 5 KM DISTRICT CALLED THE CHONTALES DISTRICT. THE SUBDISTRICTS ARE SEPARATED BY ABOUT 4 KM OF UNMINERALIZED ROCK.MUCH OF THE INFORMATION FROM PERSONAL FIELD EXPERIENCE (VENABLE, 1992) AND FROM "GREY" LITERATURE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit UNKNOWN SIZE CRITERIA AS REPORTED BY ICAITA
Deposit Discovery Year: 1850 (JABALI)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1990 Bliss, James D. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1992 Page, Norman 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