CHROMITE SAND OPERATION
Dinagat Islands
Brief Geology
Two abandoned chromite small-scale mining areas were investigated, the Catmonan and East Maraquing where remnants of chromite ore fragments littered around the vicinities have been observed. Based on float, chromite occurs in the form of massive, disseminated and banded localized in the serpentinized dunitic country rock intercalated with harzburgite. According to previous workers who made a detailed investigation of the mining area, the massive chromite occurs as lenses of pod-shaped ore body ranging in thickness from 0.5 to 1.0 meter. Majority of the chromite ore bodies generally strike parallel to the regional structural trend of the area. In 1990, a total of 5,000 metric tons of lumpy ores were extracted in these mining areas.
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Accessibility
From Surigao City to San Jose Municipality, Dinagat Islands is being serviced by motorized Bancas and inter-island ship, also known as RO-ROs, in more or less than 2 hours during fair weather conditions in the area, San Jose to highway junction at Brgy. Gen. Aguinaldo, a distance of 44 kilometres can be reached in an hour drive by all types of vehicles. Then from this point, another 10 kilometres, a road leads to the chromite and nickel area.