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Unidentified Stone Quarry

Past Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodities Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  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 10056685
MRDS ID TC00743
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Stone Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -65.94112, 18.009 (WGS84)
Elevation 70
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maunabo Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Yabucoa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Puerto Rico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern(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 DE PEDRO TORRES ORTIZ, NEAR KILOMETER MARKER KM 2.5 ALONG ROUTE PR-759, NEAR PALO SECO MAUNABO.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary
Limestone, General Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THERE ARE NO MAPPED LIMESTONES IN THIS QUAD. LAT-LONG PLOTS IN EITHER ALLUVIUM OR IGNEOUS. COMMODITY WAS CHANGED TO CRUSHED/BROKEN STONE (STN1) AND POSSIBLE LIMESTONE (LST?).

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -65.94112, 18.009
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Derby Bernier Pagan

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Derby Bernier Pagan
  • Type Owner
    Owner Pedro Torres Ortiz

Comments on the production information

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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    ROGERS, C.L., CRAM, C.M., PEASE, M.H., AND TISCHLER, M.S., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE YABUCOA AND PUNTA TUNA QUADRANGLES, PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-1086, 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.

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. (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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