Mine detail: Casseus

Previously called 'Casse*'

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Location: Haiti, Caribbean
Lat / long: 19.59367, -72.76629
dep_id: 10062279
mrds_id: TC35614
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Digenite, Pyrite
gangue: Calcite, Diopside, Epidote, Magnetite, Specularite, Talc, Tremolite
model: 59: Skarn Cu
ore_ctrl: Limestone-Intrusive Contact.
Reporter: Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit: Miguinda Formation Of Colombier Volcanic Sequence
hrock_type: Marble,Skarn (Tactite),Limestone
arock_unit: Colombier Volcanic Sequence;
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: Terre-Nueve Mountains Form Double Plunging Anticline Cored By Quartz Monzonite To Quartz Diorite Stock.
tectonic: Island Arc.
Year first produced: 1910
disc_yr: 1728
References:
  • 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).
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