Energy and Mineral Potential of the Central American-Caribbean Region

Abstract

Overview.- The role of national institutions and international cooperation in the development of the geological sciences in the Central American-Caribbean region.- The known and potential resource base for economic development in the Central American-Caribbean region.- Geodynamic map of Costa Rica.- Central America and the north Caribbean: Resource implications inferred from paleomagnetic data and plate tectonic history.- The status of mineral production in the Caribbean Basin countries.- Circum-Caribbean sedimentary basin development and timing of hydrocarbon maturation as a function of Caribbean Plate tectonic evolution.- The human and economic losses of selected natural disasters in Latin America, 1970-1987.- Central American resource studies.- Petroleum Resources.- Caribbean region: Perspectives on petroleum.- Sedimentary basins of Costa Rica: Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution and hydrocarbon potential.- An integrated geological and geophysical interpretation of the San Carlos basin, Costa Rica.- Preliminary tectonic outline of northern Guatemala.- The Coban Formation in the Peten basin, Guatemala.- The petroleum potential of the Netherlands Antilles.- Sedimentary basins and petroleum potential of Puerto Rico.- An oil and gas assessment of the U. S. continental slope in the Gulf of Mexico.- The perpetual mystery of petroleum migration.- Summary of working group session on petroleum resources.- Coal and Peat Resources.- Coal in the Central American-Caribbean region.- Exploration, development, and utilization of coal in Costa Rica.- Coal resources of the Baja Talamanca area of Costa Rica.- A mining design project for the Zent coal, Limon, Costa Rica.- Utilizing coal in the cement industry in Costa Rica.- Coal districts of Venezuela.- Status of coal exploration in the Atlantic coast of Colombia.- Opportunities for collaborating in utilization of clean coal technologies.- Peat deposits of Central America and the Caribbean region.- Deposits of peat in Costa Rica.- Economics of selected energy applications of peat in Panama and Costa Rica.- Recommendations of the working group on coal and peat.- Geothermal Resources.- Status and geologic setting of geothermal fields in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.- Seismological studies at the Miravalles geothermal project.- Geophysical exploration of Las Pailas geothermal field, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica.- Momotombo geothermal field.- Current status of geothermal activities in Guatemala.- Geothermal prefeasibility studies in Honduras.- Prefeasibility geothermal assessment of Platanares, Department of Copan, Honduras.- An economic prefeasibility study of geothermal energy development at Platanares, Honduras.- Application of geothermal energy to mineral processing: Cyanide heap-leaching of low-grade gold ore.- Environmental impacts associated with geothermal exploration, development, and power generation.- Summary and recommendations of the working group on geothermal resources.- Industrial Minerals and Metallic Mineral Resources.- The outlook for volcanic-hosted gold deposits in the Republic of Costa Rica.- Origin of gold from the Golfo Dulce placer province, southern Costa Rica.- Nickel potential of the Caribbean Plate and adjacent regions.- The Jamaican bauxite industry: Glimpses into its past, present, and future.- Mineral-energy resources in the Dominican Republic.- Selected precious-metal occurrences in the Lesser Antilles.- Biogeochemistry for future mineral resource exploration programs in the Central American-Caribbean region.- Industrial minerals-Key to economic development.- The occurrence, production, and trade of non-metallic industrial minerals in Costa Rica.- A provisional study of Costa Rican diatomites as raw materials for filter-aids.- Summary and recommendations of the minerals working group.- Water Resources.- The distinctive hydrology of tropical islands.- A Quaternary volcanic aquifer system in Central America: Key factors in groundwater potential and protection.- Structure and depositional patterns and their influence on the hydraulic conductivity of fan-deltas in southern Puerto Rico.- Karst localities in Costa Rica and their geologic background.- Summary statement for hydrology session working group.- Geologic Hazards.- Landslides on the Panama Canal.- Geologic hazards in Honduras.- Extent and social-economic significance of slope instability in the island of Hispaniola.- Use of seismic refraction techniques for investigating recent landslides in a tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico.- Report of the working group on natural hazards.