Location: | Haiti, Caribbean |
Lat / long: | 19.57728, -72.75101 |
dep_id: | 10085134 |
mrds_id: | W700677 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Copper |
Minor mineral: | Silver |
Trace mineral: | Gold |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Production occurred |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Digenite, Molybdenite, Pyrite |
gangue: | Calcite, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Hedenbergite, Hematite, Idocrase, Magnetite, Scapolite, Tremolite, Wollastonite |
orebody_fm: | LENS, DISSEMINATED, VEINLETS |
model: | 59: Skarn Cu |
ore_ctrl: | Limestone-Intrusive Contact. |
Reporter: | Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Page, Norman J. |
hrock_unit: | Colombier Volcanic Sequence |
hrock_type: | Marble |
arock_type: | Diorite |
Structure: | Terre-Neuve Mountains Form Double Plunging Anticline Cored By Quartz Monzonite Stock., Meme Fault (Nw-Se) Offsets Original Deposit 2000m To Nw Into Casseus And Meme Deposits. |
tectonic: | Island Arc ? |
Year first produced: | 1957 |
yr_lst_prd: | 1988 |
disc_yr: | 1956 |
discr: | Consolidated Halliwell Ltd |
References: |
- Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 46.
- Deposit:: KESLER, S.E., 1968, CONTACT-LOCALIZED ORE FORMATION AT MEME MINE, HAITI: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 63 P. 541-552.
- Other Database:: CIMRI
- Production:: KESLER (1968), MIN. MAG (1989).
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