Mine detail: Frome Area of Savanna-La-Mar

Previously called 'May Be Blue Castle?Frome Plains'

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Location: Westmoreland, Jamaica, Caribbean
Lat / long: 18.29735, -78.14809
dep_id: 10063557
mrds_id: TC37410
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Bentonite
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Sedimentary
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Bentonite
Reporter: Page, Norman J.
hrock_type: Alluvium
References:
  • Deposit:: GEDDES, A.J.S., 1987, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS IN JAMAICA-AN OVERVIEW IN PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP ON THE STATUS OF JAMAICAN GEOLOGY, 14-16 MARCH 1984, SPECIAL ISSUE 1987 OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAMAICA, P. 225-248.
  • Deposit:: HUGHES, I.G., 1973, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF JAMAICA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF JAMAICA BULLETIN NO. 8, 87 P.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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