Haiti has the World’s Second Largest Iridium Deposits

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the top three countries with the largest known deposits of iridium are South Africa, Russia, and the United States. Other countries that have significant deposits of iridium include China, Canada, and Colombia. There is no data to prove that Haiti has significant reserves that are in the top few countries. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is the most significant source of world data on this subject. Do you have a link to facts that Henry Vixamar claims or any factual data to show Haiti has the 2nd largest deposits? It seems like complete lies when I research fact-based websites.

So, the USGS says this or that and ta dah, it’s the truth…. Here we go again with this misinformation, we know what’s best, that’s just a rumor so on and so forth. In the meantime, Haiti, sell your mineral rights, so you can be exploited, giving the wealth to a few vs sharing it with all the people of Haiti.

I believe that this is true about the iridium Haiti as a rare and have all these resources that are rich. That why for many year it have been one of that places that other countries have been trying to take over granted that we were one of the first black and caribbean countries to get our independence from the french. they all know what Haiti is sitting on and they want it so bad from the united stated the the french. we are going to keep what we have and fought so had the have!!

Received: 12 April 1999 / Accepted: 16 October 1999
Introduction
At El Caribe, Guatemala, we reported the presence of
up to 10±15% altered glass spherules near the top of
the breccia, which is located stratigraphically near the
K/T boundary, and linked these to the Chicxulub
impact (Stinnesbeck et al. l997). We also noted that
analyses of Ir by R. Rocchia failed to show anomalous
concentrations at the top of the breccia (Stinnesbeck
et al. l997, p. 703). In this short note we amend this
statement and elaborate as to the actual Ir values
reported by Rocchia and the precise stratigraphic posi-
tion of the Ir analyses made by him in our section as
well as the section collected by Fourcade et al. (l998).
We then place these findings within the context of
new geological studies in Haiti and Guatemala.
In our original publication we stated that ªSome
breccias contain up to approximately 10±15% spher-
ules but no anomalous iridium concentrations were
detectedº (Stinnesbeck et al. 1997; R. Rocchia, pers.
commun.). This statement is erroneous in that the
samples analysed for us by R. Rocchia are above the
breccia and no breccia samples were analysed in our
study. However, in a separate study of the same out-
crop locality by Fourcade et al. (1998), R. Rocchia
analysed a breccia sample with altered spherules and
recorded ªa low but significant iridium concentration
(0.4 ng/g)º (Fourcade et al. 1998, p. 50). This finding
strengthens our observation that the top of the breccia
is linked to a spherule-producing event near the end
of the Cretaceous, which may be the Chicxulub event.
The samples we sent to R. Rocchia for Ir analysis
were from a 10-cm-thick shale interval between 30
and 40 cm above the top of the breccia (see Fig. 1).
Three samples (C16, C17, C18) from the top of the
marly limestone and base of the shale layer yielded
only background values of 0.08 ng/g; sample C19 was
lost. Sample C20 near the top of the shale layer
yielded 0.23 ng/g and Fourcade et al. (l998, sample 7,
p. 50) reported a value of 0.2 ng/g for the same inter-
val; sample C21 at the base of the overlying marly
limestone yielded 0.15 ng/g. In another shale layer
1.2 m above the top of the breccia, Fourcade et al.
(l998, p.50) reported another small Ir anomaly of
0.1 ng/g (Fig. 1). Hence, there are three intervals of
elevated Ir values: at the K/T boundary, in the lower
Parvularugoglobigerina eugubina (Pla) Zone, and near
the base of the Plb-c Zone.
The K/T Ir anomalies are frequently above l.0 ng/g;
therefore, we do not generally consider Ir values of
0.1±0.2 ng/g as significant. However, our recent studies
in Haiti and Guatemala reveal similar small multiple
Ir anomalies as observed in the Guatemala sections,
and that leads us to reconsider our previous viewpoint.
An important aspect of these small Ir anomalies is
that they are stratigraphically separated. The first and
most significant Ir value (0.4 ng/g) is reported by
Fourcade et al. (1998, p. 50) at the top of the breccia
together with altered glass spherules within ªa matrix
of argillaceous limestone with very small planktonic
foraminifers (P. eugubina and/or E. fringa)º…. ªDa-
nian species of dinoflagellate Membranilarnacia?
tenella were also foundº. This suggests that the spher-
ule-bearing top of the breccia was deposited in the
early Danian Zone P1a (P. eugubina Zone) as shown
in Fig. 1 and similar to Haiti, as discussed herein.
The second intriguing aspect is the slightly elevated
Ir concentration of 0.23 and 0.15 ng/g at the top of the
shale layer and at the base of the overlying marly
limestone, respectively, and approximately 40 cm
G. Keller
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ 08544, USA
W. Stinnesbeck ())
Geologisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Postfach 6980,
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel.: +0721-6082137
Fax: +0721-6082138
e-mail: wolfgang.stinnesbeck@bio-geo.uni-karlsruhe.de

Not only they stealing our resources also they have been mistreated us , Haitian let not lost our abilities to fight and protect our resources.

I hope Haiti has iridium, that the country exploits the mineral and that Haitian people remain in Haiti instead of sucking the blood out of the U.S.