MINERAL CONTENT OF SURFICIAL SEDIMENT OF THE RANGSANG ISLAND AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA, MERANTI REGENCY, ARCHIPELAGO RIAU PROVINCE

Abstract

According to the regulation No 4 of 2009 of Mineral and Coal Mining Management stated that the requirement of an inventory for mineral resources data was created to support the establishment of mining area. This study is intended to obtain mineral resources content and surficial sediment data, Geographically the study area belongs to Meranti Archipelago Regency, Riau Province. it is located between 102o00'00" - 103o 15'00" E and 00o35'00" - 01o28'00" N. Grain size analyses result show that surficial sediment in the study area consists of silt, silty sand and sand which is dominated by silt. Based on the mineral identification, some of the minerals such as quartz, cassiterite, magnetite, hematite, dolonite, biotite and zircon have been found. Silt distribution is very wide started from estuarine southeast part northen part of Rangsang Island toward southeast of rangsang island. Sandy silt only found at the southeast of Rangsang Island, while sand sediment is found at the south and southeast of Rangsang Island. The presence of silt and sand grains is influenced by moderate to strong currents and wave patterns, so that the silt and sand grains sediment was transported along coastal to offsore area, while the fine grained (clay - silt) are deposited in the valley at the western part of Rangsang Island.

Keywords

• Mineral
• surficial sediment
• Rangsang Island