Critical metals (REE, Sc, PGE) in Ni laterites from Cuba and the Dominican Republic

T Aiglsperger, JA Proenza, JF Lewis, M Labrador… - Ore Geology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Ni laterites are considered worthy targets for critical metals (CM) exploration as Rare Earth
Elements (REE), Sc and platinum group elements (PGE) can be concentrated during …

[PDF][PDF] Ophiolite-related ultramafic rocks (serpentinites) in the Caribbean region: a review of their occurrence, composition, origin, emplacement and Nilaterite soil …

JF Lewis, G Draper, JA Proenza, J Espaillat… - Geologica Acta: an …, 2006 - redalyc.org
Redalyc.Ophiolite-Related Ultramafic Rocks (Serpentinites) in the Caribbean Region: A
Review of their Occurrence, Composition, O Page 1 Geologica Acta: an international earth …

[HTML][HTML] A new method of discriminating different types of post-Archean ophiolitic basalts and their tectonic significance using Th-Nb and Ce-Dy-Yb systematics

E Saccani - Geoscience Frontiers, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new discrimination diagram using absolute measures of Th and Nb is
applied to post-Archean ophiolites to best discriminate a large number of different ophiolitic …

[PDF][PDF] Foundations of Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean evolution: eight controversies resolved

J Pindell, L Kennan, KP Stanek, WV Maresch… - Geologica Acta: an …, 2006 - redalyc.org
In recent years, the geological community has seen the re-emergence of some former
controversies regarding the evolution of the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean region. In part this …

High-Cr and high-Al chromitites from the Sagua de Tánamo district, Mayarí-Cristal ophiolitic massif (eastern Cuba): Constraints on their origin from mineralogy and …

JM González-Jiménez, JA Proenza, F Gervilla… - Lithos, 2011 - Elsevier
Several chromitite bodies of variable sizes are hosted in dunite-harzburgite of the small (<
3km) mining district of Sagua de Tánamo, in the Mayarí-Cristal ophiolitic massif, eastern of …

The Greater Antillean Arc: Early Cretaceous origin and proposed relationship to Central American subduction mélanges: implications for models of Caribbean …

J Pindell, WV Maresch, U Martens… - International Geology …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
We integrate known and suspected Meso-American plate motions with the geochronology of
Caribbean arcs and Central American HP/LT belts to promote two primary concepts. The first …

Distribution of platinum-group elements and Os isotopes in chromite ores from Mayarí-Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (eastern Cuba)

F Gervilla, JA Proenza, R Frei… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2005 - Springer
Abstract The Mayarí-Baracoa ophiolitic belt in eastern Cuba hosts abundant chromite
deposits of historical economic importance. Among these deposits, the chemistry of chromite …

Latest Cretaceous collision/accretion between the Caribbean Plate and Caribeana: origin of metamorphic terranes in the Greater Antilles

A Garcia-Casco, MA Iturralde-Vinent… - International Geology …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Metasedimentary complexes dispersed all along the northwestern branch of the Caribbean
orogenic belt between Yucatan and the Virgin Islands provide evidence for a major tectonic …

Recycling and transport of continental material through the mantle wedge above subduction zones: A Caribbean example

Y Rojas-Agramonte, A Garcia-Casco, A Kemp… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Estimates of global growth rates of continental crust critically depend upon knowledge of the
rate at which crustal material is delivered back into the mantle at subduction zones and is …

Petrogenesis of highly depleted peridotites and gabbroic rocks from the Mayarí-Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (eastern Cuba)

C Marchesi, CJ Garrido, M Godard, JA Proenza… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2006 - Springer
Abstract The Moa-Baracoa and Mayarí-Cristal massifs (eastern Cuba) are two ophiolitic
complexes mainly constituted by harzburgite tectonites and minor dunites, cut by gabbroic …