Mine detail: Meme Mine

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

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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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