Mine detail: Alumina Partners of Jamaica Alpart - Nain

Previously called 'Essec Valley Mine'

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Location: Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, Caribbean
Lat / long: 17.95626, -77.60336
dep_id: 10085136
mrds_id: W700679
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Aluminum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Bauxite, Boehmite, Gibbsite
model: 112: Bauxite, karst type
Reporter: Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit: White Limestone
hrock_type: Limestone
References:
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 46.
  • Deposit:: TRETZEL, D.C., 1971, DEVELOPMENT IN WORLD BAUXITE PRODUCTION AND BAUXITE IN JAMAICA, TALK PRESENTED TO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAMAICA, JAN. 29, 1971, 10 P.
  • Deposit:: COMER, J.B., NAESER, C.W., AND MCDOWELL, F.W., 1980, FISSION TRACK AGES OF ZIRCON FROM JAMAICAN BAUXITE AND TERRA ROSSA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 75, NO. 1, P. 117-121.
  • Deposit:: WAGH, A.S., AND PINNOCK, W.R., 1987, OCCURRENCE OF SCANDIUM AND RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN JAMAICAN BAUXITE WASTE: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 82, P. 757-761.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
  • Production:: MINING MAGAZINE (1989)
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