Coat of Arms of Haiti |
When he was asked to describe what kind of land was to be
found in Haiti
Christopher Columbus picked up a piece of paper crumpled it and dropped it on
the table. This was the kind of land they had in Haiti he told them it is
extremely mountainous as well as the land in the Dominican Republic where just
over the border from Haiti they actually have mountain peaks that are more than
10,000 feet high. The Gold
occurrences in Haiti
have been mainly discovered in the northern mountains of not only Haiti
but the entire island of Hispaniola that
also includes the Dominican Republic .
The rocks and the entire island
of Hispaniola are no older than the
Cretaceous
Period although on and off laying island from the main island there are
some rocks that are arguably from the Paleozoic era. First gold mines on the island were
established by the Spaniards
in 1520. It was these gold mines that led to the extinction of the Arawak Indians on the island
because the Spaniards used them as slaves to work the mines. The very name Haiti
is one of the few words that have survived the Arawak Indians, it means
mountainous place.
Once the Spaniards discovered the tremendous amounts of gold
to be had in Mexico Gold mining operations in Haiti
came to an ending and for centuries Gold Mining almost ceased on the island.
Gold was recently rediscovered in Haiti
along with other base metals in booting copper and zinc. These deposits are now
being explored by many prospectors and mining companies from the US
and Canada .
Since the gold mining industry has reestablished itself in Haiti
there has been a growth of artisanal mining throughout the country. And there
are gold buyers that make you regular circuit of the country buying gold from
the miners in what has been described as a circus atmosphere somewhat
reminiscent of a flea market.
There are many places where gold has been found in hard rock deposits, but
there are many places where it can also be found as placer gold.
One of these deposits located at Grand Bois is estimated to
contain over 4,000,000 tonnes of ore that averages 1.9 g per tonne. The gold is
found in the oxidized
zone near the surface of the earth making it extremely amenable to open pit
mining. There are other deposits of gold found throughout the northern part of
the island, but Grand Bois is the largest. Most of the gold of his been
discovered is in the vicinity of where two fault lines intersect. Copper is
another metal that his been found on the island in considerable amount that may
prove to be more monetarily rewarding then the gold deposits.
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