Bauxite - Greece

Occurrence in Greece with commodity Aluminum
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 10068704
MRDS ID W001935
Record type Site
Current site name Bauxite - Greece

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 23.50171, 38.08218 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greece(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Greece

Comments on the location information

  • SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSES INCLUDED - HIGH CR

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CHEMICAL ANALYSIS RANGE - 47-49% AL2O3

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bauxite Ore

Analytical data

Result SIO2 - 2.06%, TIO2 - 2.23%, AL2O3 - 48.44%, FE2O3 - 36.18%, CR2O3 - 0.31%, NIO - 0.11%, K2O - 0.07%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate
    Rock unit name Footwall;Hanging Wall; (Cenomanian Age)
    Rock description Footwall;Hanging Wall; (Cenomanian Age)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) 23.50171, 38.08218

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 10M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mandra Ii - Eleusis

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPASTAMATIOU, J., AND MAKSIMOVIC, Z., 1970, CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF GENESIS OF GREEK BAUXITES: CHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITION OF MANDRA II BAUXITE DEPOSIT, IN CONFERENCE ON BAUXITE GEOLOGY: ANN. INST. GEOL. PUBL. HUNGAR, V. 54, NO. 3, P. 391-402

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Bannigan, Jane L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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