Ask the Consul - U.S. Embassy in Trinidad & Tobago
The following economic minerals are located in Trinidad and Tobago: Andesite – Tobago. This rock type is part of the Bacolet Formation, which includes according to Maxwell (1948) "interbedded tuffs, tuff breccias and agglomerates and some intercalated flows". The two largest quarries in Tobago are sited in andesitic rocks of the Bacolet Formation.