San Miguel Area

Producer in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala with commodity Feldspar
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10061705
MRDS ID TC34647
Record type Site
Current site name San Miguel Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.52148, 14.90834 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baja Verapaz(province)

Guatemala(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Guatemala Baja Verapaz

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR GRANADOS VILLAGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Feldspar Ore
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result HANDPICKED SAMPLE: 15.59% AL2O3, 74.97% SIO2, 0.45% CAO, < 0.01% TIO2, 0.69% K2O, 0.07% MGO, 0.45% FE2O3, 0.13% P2O5, 8.02% NA2O, 0.43% LOI.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.52148, 14.90834

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Thickness 30M
    Length 93M
    Width 50M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CHOU, SUN-AN, 1993, ASSESSMENT REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS IN GUATEMALA: MINING TECHNICAL MISSION FROM ENERGY AND RESOURCE LABORATORIES INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, REPUBLIC OF CHINA, REPORT NO. 06-3-83-006, 196 P

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 BODIES, DIMENSIONS OF LARGEST GIVEN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1994 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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