Geology and resource assessment of Costa Rica

Geologic map at 1:500,000 scale, digitized from USGS I-1865. Includes mines, prospects, and occurrences, permissive tracts for several mineral deposit types, and gravity anomaly contours.

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Costa Rica

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Publication

USGS Digital Data Series DDS-19

Geology and Resource Assessment of Costa Rica at 1:500,000 Scale -- A Digital Representation of Maps of the U.S. Geological Survey's 1987 Folio I-1865

USGS Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1865

Mineral resource assessment of the Republic of Costa Rica