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Unidentified Quartz Diorite Quarry

Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056671
MRDS ID TC00727
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Quartz Diorite Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.11613, 18.33676 (WGS84)
Elevation 100
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Guaynabo Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aguas Buenas(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. 1.1 ON ROUTE PR-836 IN BARRIO OF CAMARONES, TOWN OF GUAYNABO.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • METAMORHIC ROCK

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.11613, 18.33676
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Tocal Construction Corp.

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Tocal Construction Corp.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Simon Cruz Roman Y La Sucn. De Petrona Cruz

Comments on the production information

  • THE MINING PERMIT ALLOWS FOR MAXIMUM EXTRACTION OF 1,000 CUBIC METERS PER DAY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT OCCURS IN AN AREA MAPPED AS QUARTZ DIORITE AND AS HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED ROCK. ROCKS ADJACENT TO THE QUARTZ DIORITE HAVE BEEN STRONGLY SILICIFIED AND SERICITIZED AND CONTAIN PYRITE AND OTHER SULFIDES; INCLUDES JASPEROID.
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. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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