Lepanto Mine

Past Producer in Benguet, Philippines with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Links to other databases
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021468
MRDS ID DE00142
Record type Site
Current site name Lepanto Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 122.98616, 11.07436 (WGS84)
Relative position No latitude-longitude reported. Given lat-lon is for centroid of first order political subdivision boundary.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Benguet(province)

Philippines(country)

Asia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Philippines Benguet

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) 122.98616, 11.07436

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on development

  • ORE PRODUCTION CAPACITY BETWEEN 500,000 AND 1,000,000 TONNES/YEAR. OPERATION SUSPENDED IN 1988.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 51

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-89 Beougher, Dee (Spanski, Gregory T.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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