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Las Piedras Construction's Aggregate Workings

Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodities Stone, Crushed/Broken, Volcanic Materials
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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. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056681
MRDS ID TC00738
Record type Site
Current site name Las Piedras Construction's Aggregate Workings

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -65.90778, 18.23399 (WGS84)
Elevation 80
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juncos Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Juncos(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Puerto Rico(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

  • FINCA PROPIA, ON ROUTE PR-31 NEAR KILOMETER MARKER KM 24.2, NEAR CEIBA NORTE, JUNCOS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary
Volcanic Materials Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -65.90778, 18.23399
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • UNIT KV.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Las Piedras Construction

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Las Piedras Construction

Comments on the production information

  • MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION PERMITTED PER DAY IS 3000 CUBIC METERS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BROEDAL, C.H., 1961, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP SHOWING IRON AND COPPER PROSPECTS IN THE JUNCOS QUADRANGLE, PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-326, SCALE 1:20,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNDIFFERENTIATED VOLCANIC ROCKS.
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-JUN-1991 Corteza Terrestre/Surface Mining Permits Office Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Kibbe, R.D.; Carbonaro, M.M. U.S. Geological Survey

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