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Falcondo - Larga, Loma Ortega, Fraser, Peguera, Taina, Guardarraya
Dominican Republic
Main commodities: Ni




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2000.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Falcondo

    Selected References
Anonymous  1975 - Nickel Mining in the Dominican Republic: in    Mining Magazine, December 1975    pp 439-444
Ferguson B A, Camposano G, Aponte J  1979 - Falconbridge Dominicana, Ore Handling and Preparation: in Evans D J I, Shoemaker R S, Veltman H (Eds),  International Laterite Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb, 19 to 21, 1979 Soc Mining Engineers, of the AIMM&PE, New York    pp 152-168
Haldemann E G, Buchan R, Blowes J H, Chandler T  1979 - Geology of Lateritic Nickel Deposits, Dominican Republic: in Evans D J I, Shoemaker R S, Veltman H (Eds),  International Laterite Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb, 19 to 21, 1979 Soc Mining Engineers, of the AIMM&PE, New York    57-84
Lithgow E W   1993 - Nickel Laterites of Central Dominican Republic. Part 1: Mineralogy and Ore Dressing: in Reddy R G, Weizenbach R N (Eds),  The Paul E Queneau International Symposium, Extractive Metallurgy of Copper, Nickel and Cobalt The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society   v1 pp 403-425
Marchesi, C., Garrido, C.J., Proenza, J.A., Hidas, K., Varas-Reus, M.I., Butjosa, L. and Lewis, J.F.,  2016 - Geochemical record of subduction initiation in the sub-arc mantle: Insights from the Loma Caribe peridotite (Dominican Republic): in    Lithos   v.252-253, pp. 1-15. doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2016.02.009.
Tauler, E., Lewis, J.F., Villanova-de-Benavent, Aiglsperger, T., Proenza, J.A., Domenech, C., Gallardo, T., Longo, F. and Gali, S.,  2017 - Discovery of Ni-smectite-rich saprolite at Loma Ortega, Falcondo mining district (Dominican Republic): geochemistry and mineralogy of an unusual case of hybrid hydrous Mg silicate - clay silicate type Ni-laterite: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.52, pp. 1011-1030.
Tauler, E.T., Proenza, J.A., Gali, S., Lewis, J.F., Labrador, M., Garcia-Romero, E., Saurez, M., Longo, F. and Bloise, G.,  2009 - Ni-sepiolite-falcondoite in garnierite mineralization from the Falcondo Ni-laterite deposit, Dominican Republic: in    Clay Minerals,   v.44., pp. 435-454. doi: 10.1180/claymin.2009.044.4.435.
Villanova de Benavent, C., Cama, J., Soler, J.M., Domenech, C., Gali, S. and Proenza, J.A.,  2022 - Dissolution kinetics of garnierites from the Falcondo Ni-Laterite deposit (Dominican Republic) under acidic conditions: in    Applied Geochemistry,   v.143, 11p. doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105357.
Villanova, C., Proenza, J.A., Gali, S., Garcia-Casco, A., Tauler, E., Lewis, J.F. and Longo, F.,  2014 - Garnierites and garnierites: Textures, mineralogy and geochemistry of garnierites in the Falcondo Ni-laterite deposit, Dominican Republic: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.58, pp. 91-109. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.10.008.


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