Cerro Crucitas

Prospect in Alajuela, Costa Rica with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097390
MRDS ID TC40422
Record type Site
Current site name Cerro Crucitas

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -84.30854, 10.87687 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alajuela(province)

Costa Rica(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Costa Rica Alajuela

Comments on the location information

  • LAT/LONG FOR CERRO CRUCITAS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Aguacate Formation
    Rock description Aguacate Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -84.30854, 10.87687

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sarapiqui Mineral Belt

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Placer Dome

Comments on development

  • PLACER DOME HAS 30,000 HECTARES (15 EXPLORATION CONCESSIONS, DRILLED 24 HOLES TOTALLING 3000 M. LYON LAKE MINES AND AMERICAN BARRICK HOLD PROPERTY ADJACENT AND TO WEST (1993).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DANIELSON, VIVIAN, 1994, PLACER DOME GOLD DISCOVERY IN COSTA RICA: THE NORTHERN MINER, V. 80, NO. 40, P.1

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1995 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.