Private company

Yacimientos Carboníferos Río Turbio

Logo: Yacimientos Carboníferos Río Turbio, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Coal mining company in Santa Cruz, Argentina

Yacimientos Carboníferos Río Turbio (English: Rio Turbio Coal Mines, abbrevriated YCRT) is an Argentine coal mining company created in 1994 to replace Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales, along with the privatization of many other state-owned enterprises, the trademark of the national administration of the time. It was created to extract, ship and sell the coal from Rio Turbio and its coal basin.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1994Founded1
  • Industrycoal industry1
  • HeadquartersRío Turbio1
  • Websitewww.ycrt.gob.ar
  • Legal formsociedad anónima1
Yacim carb rioturbio aerea
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Yacimientos Carboníferos Río Turbio (English: Rio Turbio Coal Mines, abbrevriated YCRT) is an Argentine coal mining company created in 1994 to replace Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales, along with the privatization of many other state-owned enterprises, the trademark of the national administration of the time. It was created to extract, ship and sell the coal from Rio Turbio and its coal basin.2

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales1

Timeline

  1. 1994Founded Founded1