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Orinoco

Prospect in Venezuela with commodities Vanadium, Petroleum (Oil), Nickel
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024923
MRDS ID ISM0675
Record type Site
Current site name Orinoco

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -63.13274, 10.31772 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Venezuela(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Venezuela

Comments on the location information

  • NUMEROUS ALLUVIAL MINING OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT THE TWO PROVINCES. THE MOST IMPORTANT AREA IS THE KINTA VALLEY IN PERAK PROVINCE. ; LONGITUDE IS CENTROID

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary
Petroleum (Oil) Primary
Nickel Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TITANIUM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Oil Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -63.13274, 10.31772
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; ILMN + CSTR + ZRCN + MNZT + XENO (+ QRTZ + CLAY); ILMENITE PRODUCED AS A BY PRODUCT IN THE NUMEROUS ALLUVIAL TIN MINING OPERATIONS. THE ORIGINAL SOURCE IS THE GRANITIC STOCKS OF UPPER CRETACEOUS - TERTIARY AGE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Orinoco Oil Belt

Comments on the production information

  • MMNC: 150 000 TPA ILMENITE, BEH MINERALS: 60 000 TPA ILMENITE, TOTAL: 210 000 TPA ILMENITEESTIMATE DERIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING: 1) MALAYSIAN ILMENITE EXPORT: 1983- 222 000; 1984- 177 000, AND 2) PERAK AND SELANGOR PROVINCES ACCOUNT FOR 90% OF TIN PRODUCTION. ESTIMATE USES 90% OF TOTAL MALAYSIAN PRODUCTION.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ESTIMATE BASED ON TIN RESOURCES IN PERAK-SELANGOR OF APPROXIMATELY 4 MIL TONNES CASSITERITE (RF5). ASSUME ILMENITE: CASSITERITE RATIO OF 2-3:1 (FROM RELATIVE PRODUCTION RATIOS, RF2).

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ( X; DEMAND FOR TIN.). DEVELOPMENT(NO); EXPLORATION(NO); ASSESSMENT(ILMENITE IS ONLY PRODUCED AS A BY PRODUCT OF TIN. LOW WORLD TIN DEMAND MAY RESULT IN LOWER ILMENITE PRODUCTION IN THE FUTURE.); MMC EXTRACTS ILMENITE FROM ITS OWN TIN MINING OPERATIONS. BEH MINERALS OPERATES A SINGLE PROCESSING PLANT NEAR IPOH WHICH PROCESSES TIN MINING TAILINGS, KNOWN AS AMANG PROVIDED BY ABOUT 10 TIN MINING COMPANIES. EXPORT GRADE MALAYSIAN ILMENITE HAS 54% TIO2, 7% FE2O3, 0.02% CR2O3 AND 0.02% V2O5. A SYNTHETIC RUTILE PLANT (60 000 TPA) OPERATED AT IPOH DURING 1976-77 BUT THE PLANT NEVER REOPENED AND HAS REPORTEDLY BEEN SOLD TO CHINA. (ADAMS, 84).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1981

  • Deposit

    USBM, MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). S (DREDGING, GRAVEL PUMP MINING) NO

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1986 Rossouw, Cindy Geological Survey of South Africa

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