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Aremu Mine

Past Producer in Guyana with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10061048
MRDS ID TC32176
Record type Site
Current site name Aremu Mine
Alternate or previous names Includes Aremu, Power House, Lunch, Herod, Donnicker, And Scotland Veins

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -59.14654, 6.42819 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Guyana(country)

South America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Guyana

Comments on the location information

  • ON LITTLE AREMU RIVER, ABOUT 16 MILES SW OF PURUNI RIVER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result 0.01 TO 0.40 OZ/TON AU AVERAGE OF 11 ASSAYS=0.133 OZ/TON AU) FROM HEROD TUNNEL
Result 0.02 TO 0.90 OZ/TON AU (AVERAGE OF 7 ASSAYS=0.286 OZ/TON AU) FROM DONNICKER TUNNEL.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Cuyuni Formation;Mazaruni Group
    Rock description Cuyuni Formation;Mazaruni Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -59.14654, 6.42819
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 9.14M
    Length 4876.8M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1906
Year of first production 1906

Mining district

District name Groete Creek-Aremu-Peters Mine Division

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Scotland Brothers
    First year 1906
    Last year 1909
  • Type Operator
    Owner Aremu Mining Co.
    First year 1910
    Last year 1911
  • Type Operator
    Owner British Guiana Consolidated
    First year 1936
  • Type Operator
    Owner Anaconda Mining Co.
    First year 1948
    Last year 1949

Comments on the workings information

  • GOPHER HOLES ALONG STRIKE

Comments on development

  • DISCOVERED AS RESULT OF PLACER MINING; 2400 FT OF DRILLING BY BRITISH GUIANA CONSOLIDATED (1936); 30 DRILL HOLES BY ACM (1948-1949), 17 HOLES FOCUSED ON AREMU VEIN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MACDONALD, J.R., 1968, A GUIDE TO MINERAL EXPLORATION IN GUYANA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GUYANA, BULLETIN 38, P. 16, 17-18.

  • Deposit

    ALLDERIDGE, M.G., 1962, PURUNI SE: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF BRITISH GUIANA, SCALE 1:200000.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAX. LENGTH IS OF MINERALIZED ZONE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1992 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Anaconda Mining Co. — dissolved ~1977
    Acquired by Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) 1977; operations shut down in the 1980s. Mineral assets dispersed.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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