Mine detail: Moengo

Previously called 'MoenggoMoengo Peak'

Location:	Para, Suriname, South America
Lat / long:	4.92743, -54.92145
dep_id:	10068726
mrds_id:	W001966
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Kaolin, Aluminum
Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Sedimentary
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Bauxite, Boehmite, Gibbsite
gangue:	Goethite, Halloysite, Kaolinite, Limonite
orebody_fm:	TABULAR
model:	111: Bauxite, laterite type
Reporter:	Bannigan, Jane L., Leonard, Kenneth R., Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit:	Berbice Or Onverdacht Formation;White Sands Formation;;
hrock_type:	Clastic Sedimentary Rock,Sandstone
Year first produced:	1922
References:	Deposit:: VAN KERSEN, J.F., 1956-58, BAUXITE DEPOSITS IN SURINAME AND DEMERARA (BRITISH GUIANA), FROM LEIDSE GEOLOGISCHE MEDEDELINGEN, DEEL 21, AFLEVERING 1, P. 267-282, ILLUS. (INCL. SKETCH MAP). Deposit:: KROOK, L., 1969, THE ORIGIN OF BAUXITE IN THE COASTAL PLAIN OF SURINAM AND GUYANA: IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF SURINAM, SURINAM GOVT. GEOL. AND MINING SERV., DEPT. MINES, FORESTS AND LANDS, PP. 173-179, ILLUS. Deposit:: PATTERSON AND OTHERS, 1986, WORLD BAUXITE RESOURCES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1076-B, 151 P. Deposit:: USGS BULLETIN 1228, P. 56. Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1963, V. IV. Deposit:: LEIDSE GEOLOGISCHE MEDEDELINGEN, V. 21, P. 250-375. Deposit:: ALEVA, G.J.J., 1984, LATERITIZATION, BAUXITIZATION, AND CYCLIC LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT IN THE GUIANA SHIELD, IN JACOBS, LEONARD, ED., BAUXITE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1984 BAUXITE SYMPOSIUM, SOCIETY OF MINING ENGINEERS: NEW YORK, P. 297-318.