Mine detail: Casseus

Previously called 'Casse
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Location

Lat / long:

19.59367, -72.76629

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Gold, Silver
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Digenite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Calcite, Diopside, Epidote, Magnetite, Specularite, Talc, Tremolite
Discovery year:	1728

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1910

Geology

Host rock:	Miguinda Formation Of Colombier Volcanic Sequence
Host type:	Marble,Skarn (Tactite),Limestone
Associated rock:	Colombier Volcanic Sequence;
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Terre-Nueve Mountains Form Double Plunging Anticline Cored By Quartz Monzonite To Quartz Diorite Stock.
Tectonic:	Island Arc.

References

MRDS	TC35614
DEP	10062279
Reference	{Deposit:: WOODRING, W.P., BROWN, J.S., AND BURBANK, W.S., 1924, GEOLOGY OF THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, PORT-AU-PRINCE, 631 P.}{Deposit:: HARNISH, D.E., AND BROWN, P.E., 1986, PETROGENESIS OF THE CASSEUS CU-FE SKARN, TERRE NUEVE DISTRICT, HAITI: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 81 P. 1801-1807.}{Deposit:: KESLER, S.E., 1968, CONTACT-LOCALIZED ORE FORMATION AT THE MEME MINE, HAITI: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 63, NO. 5, P. 541-552.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: WOODRING ET. AL (1924).}{Reserve-Resource:: WOODRING ET. AL (1924). HARNISH AND BROWN (1986).}
Reporter	Page, Norman J.