Angeles Quarry

Past Producer in Puntarenas, Costa Rica with commodity Bentonite
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Links to other databases
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10066166
MRDS ID TC42184
Record type Site
Current site name Angeles Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.9435, 8.78032 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Puntarenas(province)

Costa Rica(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Costa Rica Puntarenas

Comments on the location information

  • ON NATIONAL COORDINATES: 5810, 3052; NE OF ANGELES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bentonite Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.9435, 8.78032

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BERRANGE, J.P., MATHER, S.J., MORALES, C., NURY, AND ALAVARADO, V., FERNANDO, 1990, THE NON-METALLIC INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND ROCKS OF COSTA RICA: SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, PROYECTO ANGLO-COSTARRICENSE DE MINERALES INDUSTRIALES (PACOMI), 181P

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-94 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.