. The Cuba review. 18 THE CUBA REVIEW CAMAGUEY DEPOSIT OF BROWN IRON ORES WiLLiARD L. CuMMiNGS (Geologist, Bethlehem Steel Co.) and Benjamin L. Miller (Professor of Geology, Lehigh University) in the Cleveland»(0.) Iron Trade Review The Camaguey brown iron ore deposit covers the top of San Felipe hill, the near- est point of which lies 14 miles northwest of the city of Camaguey. While there are several low flat-topped hills in the vicinity covered with a more or less continuous mantle of brown iron ore, the deposit of Felipe hill is the only one of any size and importance, and the naine "
. The Cuba review. 18 THE CUBA REVIEW CAMAGUEY DEPOSIT OF BROWN IRON ORES WiLLiARD L. CuMMiNGS (Geologist, Bethlehem Steel Co.) and Benjamin L. Miller (Professor of Geology, Lehigh University) in the Cleveland»(0.) Iron Trade Review The Camaguey brown iron ore deposit covers the top of San Felipe hill, the near- est point of which lies 14 miles northwest of the city of Camaguey. While there are several low flat-topped hills in the vicinity covered with a more or less continuous mantle of brown iron ore, the deposit of Felipe hill is the only one of any size and importance, and the naine "San Felipe Dis- trict" is proposed for the region. The deposit extends in a northwest- southeast direction for a distance of about ten miles, with an average width of five miles. The location is shown in Fig. 1, a sketch-map of the eastern part of Cuba. Fig. 2 is a map of the San Felipe district. Practically every one of the mesas in the San Felipe district contains a mantle of brown ore, and principally at an elevation of from 400 to 500 feet above sea level. On the smaller hills, however, erosion has proceeded so far that the ore is nearly all removed. In different parts of the plain, which has an elevation of from 150 to 250 feet above sea level, there is some ore and some mining denouncements have been made, but the ore on these flats, or sabanas, is very shallow, and outcrops of serpentine appear at frequent intervals. On the San Felipe hill there is a great deal of hard ore similar to that on the beach at Moa, and in places the boulders are of enormous size. Over other areas, especially the wooded ones, there is no float ore, and the presence of the ore de- posit is only revealed by digging through the soil and vegetable matter, which is gen- erally only a few inches deep. The greatest difference between San Fehpe and Moa and Mayari is the coarse nature of the disintegrated capping at the first-mentioned locahty and the frequent presence of hard ore below. Thus, at
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