Mine detail: Alcan Jamaica Ltd - Kirkvine

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

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Location

Lat / long:

18.07041, -77.47975

Resource(M)

Primary:	Aluminum
Ore:	Bauxite, Boehmite, Gibbsite
Gangue:	Anatase, Calcite, Halloysite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Kaolinite, Lithiophorite, Quartz, Rutile
Discovery year:	1942

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
Last production ended:	1953

Geology

Host rock:	White Limestone Formation
Host type:	Limestone

References

MRDS	W700681
DEP	10085138
Reference	{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1989, P. 46.}{Deposit:: ALCAN JAMAICA LTD, 1962, FIELD TRIP TO KIRKVINE WORKS, MANCHESTER: THIRD CARIBBEAN CONFERENCE, UNPUBLISHED 8 P. HANDOUT.}{Deposit:: WAGH A.S., AND PINNOCK, W.R., 1987, OCCURRENCE OF SCANDIUM AND RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS IN JAMAICAN BAUXITE WASTE: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 82,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)}
Reporter	Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Page, Norman J.