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Unidentified Limestone Quarry

Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodity 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. 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 10056730
MRDS ID TC00795
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Limestone Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.76753, 18.44787 (WGS84)
Elevation 75
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Arecibo Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Camuy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cibuco-Guajataca(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

  • ALONG HWY 40 TO THE SOUTH OF SAN JOSEDE JACHAL, FROM 0-25 KM CERROS VIEJO DE SAN ROQUE, AGUA DE FELIPE & CUMILLANGO
  • FINCA DE JORGE AMADOR TOLEDO, NEAR KILOMETER MARKER KM 4.0 ALONG ROUTE PR-129 (BRANCH RAMAL 492), NEAR HATO ARRIBA, ARECIBO

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GREY

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Aymamon Limestone
    Rock description Aymamon Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.76753, 18.44787
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • DOLOMITE ALONG E SIDE OF CERRO VIEJO DE SAN ROQUE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Adriel Colon Colon

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Colon, Adriel Colon
  • Type Owner
    Owner Jorge Amador Toledo

Comments on the production information

  • (1) EL REFUGIO; (2) DOMINGO GUERARA, (3) ?
  • MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION PERMITTED PER DAY IS 300 CUBIC METERS.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • (1) MAIN HILL, JACHAL DISTRICT; (2) EL REFUGIO - RECOVERABLE

Comments on the workings information

  • IN EL REFUGIO DEPOSIT THE ORE IS LANDSLIDE MATERIAL

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: FOR IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY

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 CAMUY QUADRANGLE, PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAP GQ-197, SCALE 1:20,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 10 KM X 2 KM, PRINCIPAL HILL
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-MAY-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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