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Unidentified Limestone Quarry

Past Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodities Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension
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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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104329
MRDS ID TC01040
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Limestone Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.13418, 18.21066 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 50(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Aguas Buenas Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Comerio(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Puerto Rico C(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

  • ONE OF TWO QUARRIES LOCATED ABOUT 2 KM NORTH OF THE DAM AT LAGO DE CIDRA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary
Stone, Dimension Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • EXCELLENT AS ROAD METAL AND CONCRETE AGGREGATE; SUSPECTED USEFUL AS SOIL CONDITIONER AND AS BUILDING AND DECORATIVE STONE.

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 Aguas Buenas Limestone
    Rock description Aguas Buenas Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.13418, 18.21066
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PEASE, M.H., AND BRIGGS, R.P., 1960, GEOLOGY OF THE COMERIO QUADRANGLE, PUERTO RICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-320, SCALE 1:20,000

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WELL INDURATED CRYSTALLINE, NEARLY PURE, CALCITE LIMESTONE USUALLY 30 M THICK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1991 Carbonaro, Marguerite M. (Bliss, James D.) U.S. Geological Survey

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