Unidentified Sand Quarry

Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Materials information
Alteration
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Land status
Ownership information
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10056657
MRDS ID	TC00710
Record type	Site
Current site name	Unidentified Sand Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-66.21335, 18.29649 (WGS84)
Elevation	150
Location accuracy	5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Naranjito Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Naranjito(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

NEAR KILOMETER MARKER KM. 7.8 ON ROUTE PR-167 IN BARRIO OF NUEVO, TOWN OF NARANJITO.

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction	Primary

Comments on the commodity information

REPORTED AS VOLCANIC SAND OCCURRENCE BY PRDNR.

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Sand	Ore

Alteration

(Local) Terrace Deposits Are Hydrothermally Altered.

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-66.21335, 18.29649	ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

UNIT QT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Producer
Commodity type	Non-metallic
Significant	No
Discoverer	Jorge Tirado Erazo

Land status

Ownership category	Private

Ownership information

Type Owner-Operator

Owner Jorge Tirado Erazo

Type	Owner-Operator
Owner	Jorge Tirado Erazo

Comments on the production information

THE MINING PERMIT ALLOWS FOR MAXIMUM EXTRACTION OF 400 CUBIC METERS PER DAY.

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	TC00710

Bibliographic references

Deposit

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

PEASE, M.H., 1968, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE NARANJITO QUADRANGLE, PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-508, SCALE 1:20,000.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	THE SIZE OF THE MINE SITE IS APPROX. 0.25 KM LONG AND 0.1 KM WIDE.
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.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	01-JUL-1991	Corteza Terrestre/Surface Mining Permits Office	Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources
Updater	01-AUG-1991	Kibbe, R. D. And Carbonaro, M.M.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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