Mine detail: Alcan Jamaica Ltd - Kirkvine

Previously called 'Includes Shooters Hill, Battersea, Martins Hill Mines, Grove Place,WilliamsfieldKirkvine Mine'

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Location: Manchester, Jamaica, Caribbean
Lat / long: 18.07041, -77.47975
dep_id: 10085138
mrds_id: W700681
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Aluminum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Bauxite, Boehmite, Gibbsite
gangue: Anatase, Calcite, Halloysite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Kaolinite, Lithiophorite, Quartz, Rutile
model: 112: Bauxite, karst type
Reporter: Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit: White Limestone Formation
hrock_type: Limestone
yr_lst_prd: 1953
disc_yr: 1942
discr: Sir Alfred H. Dicosta
References:
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 46.
  • Deposit:: ALCAN JAMAICA LTD, 1962, FIELD TRIP TO KIRKVINE WORKS, MANCHESTER: THIRD CARIBBEAN CONFERENCE, UNPUBLISHED 8 P. HANDOUT.
  • 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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