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Tajo El Pelon

Producer in Guanacaste, Costa Rica with commodities Volcanic Materials, Stone, Crushed/Broken
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  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. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10066185
MRDS ID TC42208
Record type Site
Current site name Tajo El Pelon

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.4044, 10.53245 (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: 3837, 2776.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Primary
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CRUSHED ON SITE FOR AGGREGATES FOR CONSTRUCTION AND CONCRETE BLOCKS.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.4044, 10.53245
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Srs. Gonzalez And Carranza

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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