Mine detail: Meme Mine

Previously called 'Includes Roche Glisse and Des Hommes Mines From Pre-1924Sedren'

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Location

Lat / long:

19.57728, -72.75101

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Gold
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Digenite, Molybdenite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Calcite, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Hedenbergite, Hematite, Idocrase, Magnetite, Scapolite, Tremolite, Wollastonite
Orebody form:	LENS, DISSEMINATED, VEINLETS
Discovery year:	1956

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1957
Last production ended:	1988

Geology

Host rock:	Colombier Volcanic Sequence
Host type:	Marble
Associated 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 ?

References

MRDS	W700677
DEP	10085134
Reference	{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).}
Reporter	Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Page, Norman J.