Mine detail: Santa Clara

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Location: Puntarenas, Costa Rica, North America
Lat / long: 10.19275, -84.60827
dep_id: 10084847
mrds_id: W700061
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Minor mineral: Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Gold, Marcasite
gangue: Pyrite, Quartz
model: 151: Epithermal vein, Sado
Reporter: Leonard, Kenneth R.
hrock_type: Rhyolite,Andesite
References:
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 1979, V. 140, NO. 1, P. 67.
  • Deposit:: MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1979, P. 377.
  • Deposit:: MINING ENGINEERING, JANUARY, 1980.
  • Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS SERIES MAP I-1865, 10C160.
  • Reserve-Resource:: ESTIMATE 1 IS FROM MINING MAGAZINE, 1979; ESTIMATES 2 AND 3 ARE FROM MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1979; ESTIMATE 4 IS FROM MINING ENGINEERING, 1980; AND THE LAST ESTIMATE IS FROM THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
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