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Unidentified Sand and Gravel Mine

Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056655
MRDS ID TC00708
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Sand and Gravel Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.25224, 18.37704 (WGS84)
Elevation 20
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Toa Alta Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vega Alta(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Puerto Rico C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Eastern(hydrologic unit)

Puerto Rico(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puerto Rico(hydrologic subregion)

Caribbean(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Puerto Rico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF FOUR DIFFERENT QUADRANGLES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand and Gravel Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.25224, 18.37704
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Inversiones Del Toa
Year of last production 1990

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Inversiones Del Toa
  • Type Owner
    Owner Ela

Comments on the production information

  • MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION PERMITTED PER DAY IS 700 CUBIC METERS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 2500M

Comments on the workings information

  • APPROX. LENGTH OF MINE SITE IS 2.5 KM.

Comments on development

  • MILL.CAP: CUBIC M/DAY 700

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FILES OF THE CORTEZA TERRESTRE (SURFACE MINING PERMITS OFFICE), PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, 1991

  • Deposit

    MONROE, W.H., 1963, GEOLOGY OF THE VEGA ALTA QUADRANGLE, PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAP GQ-191, SCALE 1:20,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE RECORD NUMBER IN THE FILE LINK ID FIELD, WITH A PREFIX OF 'FP' OR 'R' IS THE MINING PERMIT NUMBER ASSIGNED TO THAT SITE BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO SURFACE MINING PERMITS OFFICE.
Deposit FLUVIAL DEPOSITS OF THE RIO DE LA PLATA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1990 Corteza Terrestre/Surface Mining Permits Office U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Kibbe, R. D. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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