Firmeza District, Oriente Province, Cuba

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http://www.onemine.org/search/summary.cfm/New-York-Paper--The-Genesis-and-Relations-of-the-Daiquiri-and-Firmeza-IronOre-Deposits-Cuba?d=DDAC65014CA220BF46FC4233ECA33CD494AAE20D914A1E6CAE882DF212119EDE14069&fullText=New%20York%20Paper%20Geology%20of%20the%20Iron%20Ore%20Deposits%20of%20the%20Firmeza%20District%20Oriente%20Province%20Cuba%20with%20Discussion

AIME Abstract
The ore deposits at Firmeza have been worked continuously since 1884; those at Daiquiri since 1895. It is surprising, therefore, that they have not been the object of careful geologic study until quite recently. It is true that considerable attention was paid to these deposits by A. C. Spencer, in 1901, in the report on the geology of Cuba, by Hayes, Vaughan, and Spencer,l but this was only incidental to a hasty general reconnaissance of the Island. As far as the Daiquiri deposits are concerned, this gap has been filled by the appearance of the two papers by Prof. James F. Kemp2 and by Prof. Waldemar Lind-gren and Clyde P. Ross respectively.3 Max Roesler, first holder of the Emmons fellowship, made a detailed study of the Firmeza deposits during the past summer, so that soon we can expect a full description of them. Consequently, there is no, demand at the present time for a description of the deposits from other sources, and that is not the purpose of this paper. The papers on Daiquiri, however, leave unsolved problems in regard to the age of the rocks of the district and certain phases of the genesis of the deposits, and it is with the hope of aiding in the solution of some of these problems that this contribution is offered. Kemp, and Lindgren and Ross agree in assigning these deposits to the type of contact metamorphic deposits. They disagree in part on the question of their localization. The deposits occur in an extensive area of diorite which includes numerous blocks of limestone, and sometimes are found in the contact zones between these blocks and the diorite, and in other instances are completely enveloped in the diorite, showing no apparent connection with the limestone. The latter class includes

Mineral List

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Baryte Calcite Magnetite

Manganite Neotocite Orientite (TL)

Pyrolusite Quartz var: Bayate

Ranciéite Todorokite

11 entries listed. 10 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

Localities in this Region

Cuba Oriente Province Firmeza District Juragua Iron Co. Mines

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