Mine detail: Beta Vargas Prospect

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Location: Puntarenas, Costa Rica, North America
Lat / long: 10.17608, -84.90411
dep_id: 10007903
mrds_id: CS00139
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
gangue: Goethite, Hematite, Pyrite
orebody_fm: VEIN
model: 104: Hot-spring Au-Ag
Reporter: Howe, Stephen S.; Bagby, William C.; Marsh, Sherman P., Page, Norman J.
hrock_type: Dacite
arock_type: Dacite
References:
  • Deposit:: CASTILLO M., ROLANDO, 1984, GEOLOGIA DE COSTA RICA, UNA SINOPSIS: SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, EDITORIAL DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA, 182 P.
  • Deposit:: DIRECCION GENERAL DE GEOLOGIA, MINAS E HIDROCARBUROS (DGMH) UNPUBLISHED FILES VIEWED 1986.
  • Deposit:: VISITED BY USGS SCIENTISTS 1986.
  • Deposit:: ANON., 1995, LYON LAKE ACQUIRES SECOND GOLD PROPERTY IN COSTA RICA: THE NORTHERN MINER, MARCH 27, 1995, V. 81, NO. 4, P. C-12.
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