Cuba's Copper Resources.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 6, 1 April 1907, Page 232

Cuba's Copper Resources.

It is likely that before many years are past there will be fresh developments in the copper^ industry in Cuba. Half a century ago the output of copper ore from the Cobre Mine at the eastern extremity of the island, was on a fairly large scale, but it was subsequently abandoned. A few years ago, however, a company was formed in America to open it up again, but the difficulties encountered in reaching the lower workings were of such a nature that the scheme failed, though it was ascertained that substantial bodies of copper ore had been extracted from a mineralised zone comprising three or four veins running parallel for a distance of at least 5 OOOft. laterally, and actually worked to a depth of 1,200 ft. About £160,000 worth of copper ore was shipped to the United States from the old workings of this property before they were abandoned. The hills m the neighbourhood of Cobre give evidence of the existence of other veins, and on the extreme western end of the island, in the Province of Pmar del Rio, there are substantial gossan outcrops from 150 to 200 ft. wide. Under this, at a depth of 40 to 50 ft., iron pyrites containing black copper occurs. These deposits promise to be extensive, and m some respects resemble the ore occurence at Ducktown. In^ the Province of Santa Clara there are several copper showings of sufficient merit to invite the attention of the miner. This might also be said of other locations in Cuba yet unexplored