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Chañarcillo, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile

A famous silver mining district. Located near Pabellon.



Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Acanthite
Actinolite
Adamite (TL)
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
'Andorite'
Arsenic
Arsenopyrite
'Asbestos'
'Atlasite'
Augite
Baryte
'Biotite'
Bornite
Bromargyrite
var: Iodian Bromargyrite
var: Mercuroan Bromargyrite
Brucite
Calcite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
'Chañarcillite'
Chlorargyrite
var: Bromian Chlorargyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysocolla
Cinnabar
Conichalcite
Copper
Cuprite
Diopside
Dolomite
Domeykite
Dyscrasite
Epidote
Fettelite
Freibergite
Galena
'Garnet'
Goethite
Gypsum
Hematite
Iodargyrite
'Limonite'
Malachite
Miargyrite
Moschellandsbergite
'Mountain Leather'
Muscovite
Orthoclase
Palygorskite
Pearceite
Polybasite
Proustite
'Proustite-Pyrargyrite Series'
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Quartz
Siderite
Silver
Sphalerite
Stephanite
Stibnite
'Tocornalite'
'Tourmaline'
Wollastonite
Xanthoconite


84 entries listed. 51 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

Localities in this Region

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References

Allison, R.E. (1859): Geologische Skizze von Chile. Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitung 18(50), 458-460.

Moesta, F.A. (1870): Ueber das Vorkommen der Chlor-, Brom- und Jodverbindungen des Silbers in der Natur - Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Geologischen und Bergbaulichen Verhältnisse von Nordchile. Verlag von Oscar Eberhardt's Universitätsbuchhandlung (Marburg), 47 pp.

Henwood, W.J. (1871): Observations on Metalliferous Deposits: On the Mining District of Chañarcillo in Chili. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 8(1), 69-153.

Whitehead, W. L. (1919): The veins of Chanarcillo, Chile. Economic Geology: 14: 1-45.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 866.

Cook, R B. (1979): Famous mineral localities; Chanarcillo, Chile. Mineralogical Record, 10(4), 197-204.






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