Mine detail: Kintyre Gypsum Deposit

Previously called 'North Bull Bay Sulfate'

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Location: Saint Andrew, Jamaica, Caribbean
Lat / long: 18.00569, -76.73195
dep_id: 10063519
mrds_id: TC37366
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gypsum-Anhydrite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Anhydrite, Gypsum
model: 261: Lacustrine gypsum
Reporter: Page, Norman J.
hrock_type: Evaporite
tectonic: Wagwater Trough
References:
  • Deposit:: ALLEN, LOCKSLEY, AND NEITA, MICHAEL, 1987, GEOLOGY OF THE NORTH BULL BAY SULPHATE OCCURRENCE ZONE IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATUS OF JAMAICAN GEOLOGY, 14-16 MARCH, 1984, ED. R. AHMAD: SPECIAL ISSUE 1987, THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAMAICA, P. 282-298.
  • Deposit:: ZANS, V.A., 1951, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JAMAICA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT, JAMAICA, B.W.I., BULLETIN NO. 1, 61 P.
  • Deposit:: HUGHES, I.G., 1973, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF JAMAICA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF JAMAICA BULLETIN NO. 8, 87P.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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