Citation:

PANGAEA.866860

Name: Description of manganese deposits from the Oriente province in Cuba
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Abstract:

Deposits of manganese ore have been found in five of the six provinces of Cuba and have been reported from the sixth. Only Oriente and Pinar del Rio provinces have more than a few known deposits and only the deposits of Oriente have yielded any appreciable amount of ore. In this area the Cobre formation, of late Cretaceous(?) to middle Eocene age, overlies the Vinent formation but their stratigraphie relations are unknown. The Cobre overlies unconformably the Habana(?) formation. The Cobre formation consists of andesitic, basaltic, and dacitic tuff, agglomerate, and lavas with minor amounts of marine clastic and limestone deposits, and a prominent limestone bed, the Charco Redondo limestone member, at the top of the formation. All productive manganese deposits of Oriente are in the Cobre formation, usually within a few tens of meters above or below the base of the Charco Redondo limestone member.

Related to:

Simons, FS; Straczek, J A (1958): Geology of the manganese deposits of Cuba. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1057, 289 pp, https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1057/report.pdf

Source:

Grant, John Bruce; Moore, Carla J; Alameddin, George; Chen, Kuiying; Barton, Mark (1992): The NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, https://doi.org/10.7289/V52Z13FT

Further details:

Fig. 06. Shark tooth embedded in manganese oxide lower ore bed. Charco Redondo mine

Fig. 25 Bedded and nodular manganese oxide replacing calcareous tuff in the basal ore zone of the Charco Redondo mine

Fig. 26 Nodule of manganese oxide (mo) with rind of jasper (ja), Quinto deposit. Note fine laminations near the center

Fig. 27 Conglomerates composed of fragments of tuff, limestone and manganese oxide in limestone matrix, Charco Redondo deposit. Conglomerate les about 1 to 2 meters above manganese bed

Warnken, Robin R; Virden, William T; Moore, Carla J (1992): The NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Bibliography. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, https://doi.org/10.7289/V53X84KN

Project(s):

NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database (NOAA-MMS)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 20.240501 * Median Longitude: -75.900163 * South-bound Latitude: 20.140332 * West-bound Longitude: -76.483789 * North-bound Latitude: 20.382881 * East-bound Longitude: -75.300232

Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: -60 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: -60 m

Event(s):

Charco_Redondo_S * Latitude: 20.279477 * Longitude: -76.434438 * Elevation: 225.0 m * Location: Cuba

Guanaba_S * Latitude: 20.382881 * Longitude: -75.650712 * Elevation: 276.0 m * Location: Cuba

Ponupo_S * Latitude: 20.147254 * Longitude: -75.631645 * Elevation: 180.0 m * Location: Cuba

Comment:

From 1983 until 1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions. At the time it was the most extended data compilation on ferromanganese deposits world wide. Initially published in a proprietary format incompatible with present day standards it was jointly decided by AWI and NOAA to transcribe this legacy data into PANGAEA. This transfer is augmented by a careful checking of the original sources when available and the encoding of ancillary information (sample description, method of analysis...) not present in the NOAA-MMS database.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Event label	Event		Simons, FS
2	Latitude of event	Latitude		Simons, FS
3	Longitude of event	Longitude		Simons, FS
4	Elevation of event	Elevation	m	Simons, FS
5	Sample ID	Sample ID		Simons, FS
6	DEPTH, sediment/rock	Depth sed	m	Simons, FS	Geocode
7	Position	Position		Simons, FS
8	Deposit type	Deposit type		Simons, FS
9	Quantity of deposit	Quantity		Simons, FS
10	Size	Size		Simons, FS
11	Substrate type	Substrate		Simons, FS
12	Sediment type	Sediment		Simons, FS
13	Comment	Comment		Simons, FS
14	Description	Description		Simons, FS

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Size:

65 data points

Data

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1 Event	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	4 Elevation [m]	5 Sample ID	6 Depth sed [m]	7 Position	8 Deposit type	9 Quantity	10 Size	11 Substrate	12 Sediment	13 Comment	14 Description
Quinto_S	20.1403	-75.3002	165	Quinto_S-1	-60	Buried	Mn nodule	Several	1.0-5.0 cm		Calcareous tuff	Manganese oxide occurs in calcareous tuff (Cobre formation) at the base of limestone (Charco Redondo formation). Within the bedded manganese deposit, jasper replaces tuff.	Some of the manganese oxides are in the form of small nodules and pellets.
Quinto_S	20.1403	-75.3002	165	Quinto_S-2	-60	Buried	Mn crust	Several	Up to 1 m thick		Calcareous tuff	Manganese oxide occurs in calcareous tuff (Cobre formation) at the base of limestone (Charco Redondo formation). Within the bedded manganese deposit, jasper replaces tuff.	Layered Mn deposits form beds as much as 1 m thick sometimes with organ like structure.
Taratana_S	20.2526	-76.4838	319	Taratana_S-1	-60	Buried	Mn crust	Several	Up to 1 m thick		Calcareous tuff	Manganese oxide occurs in calcareous tuff (Cobre formation) at the base of limestone (Charco Redondo formation). The bed contact is crosscut by abondant lenses of limestone or conglomerates (andesite or basalt).	Adjacent to the jasper masses Mn deposits form beds as much as 1 m thick.
Guanaba_S	20.3829	-75.6507	276	Guanaba_S-1	-60	Buried	Mn nodule	Several	1.0-5.0 cm		Calcareous tuff	Manganese oxide occurs in calcareous tuff (Cobre formation) at the base of limestone (Charco Redondo formation). Within the bedded manganese deposit, jasper replaces tuff.	Some of the manganese oxides are in small nodules and pellets.
Guanaba_S	20.3829	-75.6507	276	Guanaba_S-2	-60	Buried	Mn crust	Several	45 cm thick		Calcareous tuff	Manganese oxide occurs in calcareous tuff (Cobre formation) at the base of limestone (Charco Redondo formation). Within the bedded manganese deposit, jasper replaces tuff.	Adjacent to the jasper masses Mn deposits form beds as much as 45 centimeters thick.
Ponupo_S	20.1473	-75.6316	180	Ponupo_S-1	-60	Buried	Mn crust	Several	45 cm thick		Calcareous tuff	Manganese oxide occurs in calcareous tuff (Cobre formation) at the base of limestone (Charco Redondo formation). Within the bedded manganese deposit, jasper replaces tuff.	Mn deposits form beds as much as 45 centimeters thick sometimes cut by post-depositional clastic dike of tuff or limestone.
Charco_Redondo_S	20.2795	-76.4344	225	Charco_Redondo_S-1	-60	Buried	Mn crust	Several	Up to 3 m thick		Calcareous tuff	Manganese oxide occurs in calcareous tuff (Cobre formation) at the base of limestone (Charco Redondo formation). Within the bedded manganese deposit, jasper replaces tuff.	Adjacent to the jasper masses Mn deposits form beds as much as 3 m thick.
Charco_Redondo_S	20.2795	-76.4344	225	Charco_Redondo_S-2	-60	Buried	Mn nodule	Several	1.0-5.0 cm	Core: shark tooth	Calcareous tuff	Manganese oxide occurs in calcareous tuff (Cobre formation) at the base of limestone (Charco Redondo formation). Within the bedded manganese deposit, jasper replaces tuff.	Some of the manganese oxides are in the form of small nodules and pellets with sometimes a foreign core (ex: shark's tooth)