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Rio Tenorio

Past Producer in Guanacaste, Costa Rica with commodities Volcanic Materials, Aggregate, Light Weight, Pumice
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10066187
MRDS ID TC42210
Record type Site
Current site name Rio Tenorio

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.18356, 10.47995 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Guanacaste(province)

Costa Rica(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Costa Rica Guanacaste

Comments on the location information

  • ON NATIONAL COORDINATES: 4089, 2722.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Primary
Aggregate, Light Weight Primary
Pumice Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • USED AS A CARRIER FOR AGROCHEMICALS AND LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Tuff Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.18356, 10.47995
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Maquisa, S. A.

Comments on the production information

  • APPROXIMATE YEARLY PRODUCTION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BERRANGE, J.P., MATHER, S.J., MORALES, C., NURY, AND ALVARADO 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

  • Production

    BERRANGE ET AL (1990).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1994 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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