Mine detail: Las Mesas

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 18.18676, -67.10368

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Chromium, Cobalt, Iron, Nickel
Other material: Chlorite, Chromite, Gibbsite, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolinite, Magnetite, Quartz, Serpentine

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Prospect

Geology

References

MAS729990006
DEP10240470
Reference{Deposit:: BRIGGS, R.P. MINERAL RESOURCES OF PUERTO RICO. CONFERENCE ON}{Deposit:: OF NAT.RES., UNIV. OF PUERTO RICO, 1969, PP. 33-35.}{Deposit:: BRIGGS, R.P. PROVISIONAL MAP OF PUERTO RICO AND ADJACENT ISL}{Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP I-392, 1964.}{Deposit:: CORRICK, J.D. NICKEL. MINERAL COMMODITY PROFILES BUMINES MCP}{Deposit:: 1977, 19 PP.}{Deposit:: CORRICK, J.D. NICKEL. BUMINES MINERALS YEARBOOK 1975, P.2.}{Deposit:: COX, D.P. AND R.P. BRIGGS. METALLOGENIC MAP OF PUERTO RICO.}{Deposit:: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP I-721, 1973.}{Deposit:: GELABERT, P.A. AND P.M. REILLY. ECONOMIC MINERAL RESOURCES O}{Deposit:: PUERTO RICO. PUERTO RICO MINING COMMISSION, 1969, P. 23-26.}{Deposit:: HEIDENREICH, W.L. AND B.M. REYNOLDS. NICKEL-COBALT-IRON-BEAR}{Deposit:: DEPOSITS IN PUERTO RICO. BUMINES RI 5532, 1959, 68 PP.}{Deposit:: JOYCE, F.E. JR. SULFATIZATION OF NICKELIFEROUS LATERITES. BU}{Deposit:: RI 6644, 1965, 16 PP.}{Deposit:: KINGSTON, G.A., F.V. CARRILLO, J.T. GRAY, AND P. MCILROY.}{Deposit:: AVAILABILITY OF U.S. PRIMARY NICKEL RESOURCES. BUMINES IC 84}{Deposit:: 1970, 57 PP.}{Deposit:: MATTSON, P.H. GEOLOGY OF THE MAYAGUEZ AREA, PUERTO RICO. BUL}{Deposit:: SOC.AMER., V.71, MARCH, 1960, PP.319-362.}{Deposit:: SIEMENS, R.E., P.C. GOOD, AND W.A. STICKNEY. RECOVERY OF NIC}{Deposit:: COBALT FROM LOW-GRADE DOMESTIC LATERITES. BUMINES IC 8027, 1}{Deposit:: 14 PP.}
ReporterBrocoum, A.