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Chromite from The Caribbean

Cuba
 
  • CamagĂŒey Province
    • CamagĂŒey District
      • Minas
USGS Bull. 854-B.
USGS Bull.:954-B.
USGS Bull.:954-B.
USGS Bull. 954-B.
USGS Bull. #954-B.
  • HolguĂ­n Province
Rocks & Min.: 23:31-32
Bureau of Mines Mineral Trade Notes (Aug 1947).
Acta GeolĂłgica HispĂĄnica, 1998, 33(1-4):351-371
    • Moa-Baracoa District
      • Barracanao (Baracoa)
J. Proenza, F. Gervilla, J. Melgarejo, O. Vera, P. Alfonso, A. Fallick (2001): Genesis of sulfide-rich chromite ores by the interaction between chromitite and pegmatitic olivine–norite dikes in the Potosí Mine (Moa-Baracoa ophiolitic massif, eastern Cuba). Mineralium Deposita 36, 658-669
Aiglsperger, T., Oliete, M. P., Proenza, J. A., Sola, N. P., Linares, F. G., Jiménez, J. M. G., & Saunders, J. E. PGE distribution in Fe-Ni-Cu sulfides from the Potosí mine (Eastern Cuban Ophiolites). Mineral Resources to Discover - 14th SGA Biennial Meeting 2017, Volume 2 pp 411-414
Rui, H. C., Yang, J. S., Castro, A. I. L., Zheng, J. P., Lian, D. Y., Wu, W. W., & Mariño, Y. V. (2022). Ti-poor high-Al chromitites of the Moa-Baracoa ophiolitic massif (eastern Cuba) formed in a nascent forearc mantle. Ore Geology Reviews, 144, 104847.
Pujol-SolĂ , NĂșria, JoaquĂ­n A. Proenza, Antonio Garcia-Casco, JosĂ© MarĂ­a GonzĂĄlez-JimĂ©nez, Aleu Andreazini, Joan Carles Melgarejo, and Fernando Gervilla. (2018) "An Alternative Scenario on the Origin of Ultra-High Pressure (UHP) and Super-Reduced (SuR) Minerals in Ophiolitic Chromitites: A Case Study from the Mercedita Deposit (Eastern Cuba)" Minerals 8, no. 10: 433. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8100433
Acta GeolĂłgica HispĂĄnica, 1998, 33(1-4):179-212
      • Moa Nickel ore field
de Oliveira, S. M. B., de Moya Partiti, C. S., & Enzweiler, J. (2001). Ochreous laterite: a nickel ore from Punta Gorda, Cuba. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 14(3), 307-317.
Marsh, E.E. and Anderson, E.D., 2011, Ni-Co laterite deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1259, 9 p.
RĂ­os, Y.I., and Cobiella, J.L. (1984) Estudio preliminar del macizo de gabbroides Quesigua de las ofiolitas del este de la provincia de HolguĂ­n. MinerĂ­a y GeologĂ­a, 2, 109-132.
Gevilla, F., Proenza, J.A., Frei, R.,Gonzålez-Jiménez, J.M., Garrido, C.J., Melgarejo, J.C., Meibom, A., Díaz-Martínez, R., Lavaut, W. (2005) Distribution of platinum-group elements and Os isotopes in chromite ores from Mayarí-Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (eastern Cuba). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 150:6, 589-607.
    • Sagua de TĂĄnamo Mining District
Artur Deditius, Fernando Barra, Jose-Maria Gonzalez-Jimenez, Martin Reich, Sophie Sperring, Alexandra Suvorova, Matt Kilburn, Malcolm Roberts (2018) Nanoscale behaviour of platinum group elements. in abstracts of the 22nd IMA Meeting Melbourne p 293
GonzĂĄlez-JimĂ©nez, J. M., Gervilla, F., Proenza, J. A., AugĂ©, T., Griffin, W. L., & O’Reilly, S. Y. (2010). Contemporaneous Segregation of PGE-and BM-Rich Sulfide Melts and Chromite Crystallization: The Caridad Chromite Deposit, MayarĂ­-Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (Eastern Cuba). 11th International Platinum Symposium Ontario Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Release–Data 269
Gevilla, F., Proenza, J.A., Frei, R.,Gonzålez-Jiménez, J.M., Garrido, C.J., Melgarejo, J.C., Meibom, A., Díaz-Martínez, R., Lavaut, W. (2005) Distribution of platinum-group elements and Os isotopes in chromite ores from Mayarí-Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (eastern Cuba). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 150:6, 589-607.
Gevilla, F., Proenza, J.A., Frei, R.,Gonzålez-Jiménez, J.M., Garrido, C.J., Melgarejo, J.C., Meibom, A., Díaz-Martínez, R., Lavaut, W. (2005) Distribution of platinum-group elements and Os isotopes in chromite ores from Mayarí-Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (eastern Cuba). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 150:6, 589-607.
Gevilla, F., Proenza, J.A., Frei, R.,Gonzålez-Jiménez, J.M., Garrido, C.J., Melgarejo, J.C., Meibom, A., Díaz-Martínez, R., Lavaut, W. (2005) Distribution of platinum-group elements and Os isotopes in chromite ores from Mayarí-Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (eastern Cuba). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 150:6, 589-607.
  • Pinar del RĂ­o Province
Yin, Feng, and Dai, Deqiu (2021) Petrology and mineralogy of the Viñales meteorite, the latest fall in Cuba. Science Progress, 104(2), 00368504211019859.
García, J. (2019) Caracterización petrográfica de muestra ID190503. Meteorito de VIÑALES (Cuba). Museo Canario de Meteoritos, Laboratorio petrográfico. Technical Report, 3 pp.
The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 108
Dominican Republic
 
  • Monseñor Nouel Province
    • Bonao
Aiglsperger, Thomas, JosĂ© M. GonzĂĄlez-JimĂ©nez, JoaquĂ­n A. Proenza, Salvador GalĂ­, Francisco Longo, William L. Griffin, and Suzanne Y. O’Reilly (2021) "Open System Re-Os Isotope Behavior in Platinum-Group Minerals during Laterization?" Minerals 11, no. 10: 1083. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11101083
Proenza, J. A., Zaccarini, F., Rudashevsky, N., Cabri, L. J., Garuti, G., Rudashevsky, V. N., ... & Bloise, G. Platinum Group Minerals (PGM) in Ni-Laterites from Falcondo (Central Dominican Republic).
DomĂšnech, Cristina, Cristina Villanova-de-Benavent, JoaquĂ­n A. Proenza, Esperança Tauler, Laura Lara, Salvador GalĂ­, Josep M. Soler, Marc Campeny, and Jordi Ibañez-Insa. (2022) "Co–Mn Mineralisations in the Ni Laterite Deposits of Loma Caribe (Dominican Republic) and Loma de Hierro (Venezuela)" Minerals 12, no. 8: 927. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12080927
Aiglsperger, T., Proenza, J. A., Longo, F., Font-Bardia, M., GalĂ­, S., RoquĂ©, J., & Baurier-Aymat, S. (2016). Fibrous Platinum-Group Minerals in “Floating Chromitites” from the Loma Larga Ni-Laterite Deposit, Dominican Republic. Minerals, 6(4), 126.
Tamara Gallardo, Esperanca Tauler, Joaquin A. Proenza, John F. Lewis, Salvador Gali, Manuel Labrador, Francisco Longo, Giovanni Bloise: Geology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Loma Ortega Ni Laterite Deposit, Dominican Republic. Macla no 13. septiembre ‘10, Revista de la Sociedad Española de MineralogĂ­a.
Aiglsperger, Thomas, Proenza, Joaquin A., Zaccarini, Federica, Lewis, John F., Garuti, Giorgio, Labrador, Manuel, Longo, Francisco (2015) Platinum group minerals (PGM) in the Falcondo Ni-laterite deposit, Loma Caribe peridotite (Dominican Republic) Mineralium Deposita, 50 (1) 105-123 doi:10.1007/s00126-014-0520-9
Mc Donald, Andrew M., Proenza, Joaquin A., Zaccarini, Federica, Rudashevsky, Nikolay S., Cabri, Louis J., Stanley, Chris J., Rudashevsky, Vladimir N., Melgarejo, Joan C., Lewis, John F., Longo, Francisco, Bakker, Ronald J. (2010) Garutiite, (Ni,Fe,Ir), a new hexagonal polymorph of native Ni from Loma Peguera, Dominican Republic. European Journal of Mineralogy, 22 (2) 293-304 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2010/0022-2007
Zaccharini et al. (2009): Neues Jahrbuch fĂŒr Mineralogie - Abhandlungen, 185, 335-349
33rd International Geological Congress (2008) session MPM-04 Platinum-group mineralogy: Platinum group minerals (PGM) in the Loma Peguera ophiolitic chromitite (Central Dominican Republic): New data using Electric Pulse Disaggregation and Hydroseparation techniques
Proenza, J. A., Zaccarini, F., Lewis, J. F., Longo, F., Garuti, G. (2007) Chromian spinel composition and the platinum-group minerals of the PGE-rich Loma Peguera chromitites, Loma Caribe peridotite, Dominican Republic. The Canadian Mineralogist, 45 (3) 631-648 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.45.3.631
Jamaica
 
  • Saint Thomas Parish
Scott, P.W., Jackson, T.A., and Dunham, A.C. (1999): Mineralium Deposita 34, 718-723.
Trinidad and Tobago
 
  • Tobago
Scott, P.W., Jackson, T.A., Dunham, A.C. (1999) Economic potential of the ultramafic rocks of Jamaica and Tobago: two contrasting geological settings in the Caribbean. Mineralium Deposita 34:7, 718-723.
 
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