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Libethenite from
Mercedes Mine, Coquimbo, Elqui Province, Coquimbo, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Libethenite
Formula:Cu2(PO4)(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Libethenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mercedes Mine, Coquimbo, Elqui Province, Coquimbo, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:6946
Long-form Identifier:1:3:6946:5
GUID (UUID V4):22bb5bdb-456b-4dcc-8849-14873d0e3356
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Libethenite Cu2 (PO4 )(OH) c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...3.77 Total 99.47 99.09 100.00 (1) Mercedes mine, Coquimbo, Chile. (2) L’ubietová, Slovakia. (3) Cu2...Vacas mine, near Vila Viçosa, and from near Alcoutim. Very large crystals from the Rokana mine, near...and Likasi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). From the Burra Burra mine, Mount Lofty Ranges...Nevada; at the Castle Dome mine, Globe-Miami, Gila Co., the Old Reliable mine, Copper Creek, Pinal Co.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(HMM, Holden Coll., 537), Rheinbreitinbach, Rhine province, Germany; dark green aggregates and single crystals...crystalline with smooth ,,fused" surface, with libethenite. 15. "Tagilite" (HMM, 61271), Nischne Tagilsk...quartz. 24. "Dihydrite (USNM, 103826), Emme Mine, Deserta, Chile; dull green cryptocrystalline material with...greencrystallinecrust with libethenite and malachite. 29. Pseudomalachite(HMM), Empire-Nevada mine, Yerrington, Nevada;...Portugall green crust on dark limonitic rock with libethenite. 31. Pseudomalachite,uar.ehlite(HMM,61321),
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
What is the largest piece of gold found in Italy, Chile, or Texas? Has gold ever been found in Hawaii? DISTRIBUTION...1958 I was taken into the upper levels of the South mine from the bot­ tom of the old open cut, and saw the...post-mine pro­ duct and, therefore, not eligible to be called a mineral, though some post-mine efflorescences...of fossil mineralization, is from the Mercedes and Herminia mine group. MOROCCO Henritermierite Mr. Gilbert...copper crystals. The specimen is from the Clark mine, Copper Harbor, Ke­ weenaw County. Mr. Behnke says
Journal (issue)
locality. Pyromorphite from on old locality—rhe Sherman mine, Burke, Idaho. A small lot of miniatures and hondsize...specimens— $15 to $500. Liebigite from rhe SchwarTzwalder mine, Golden, Colorado. Well-formed, bright yellow-green...Record Nina Woo Feature articles Libethenite from the Rokana Mine, Zambia.............................Mineralogical Notes Tilasite from the Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey 385 by F. J. Parker Tveitite...November— December, 1978 UBETHENITE from the Rokana Mine, Zambia by Stanley P. Korowski and Cor W. Notebaart
Journal (issue)
more than half an hour just walking through mine after mine, up inclines, past stopes and shafts, around...as you move along. Three cases of superb antique mine lamps highlight the whole presentation. For art...crystallized in flattened prisms and fibrous from the Province of Sukensa two days journey from Fezzen in Africa...milky quartz. Figure 4. Beryl, variety emerald, Muzo mine, Colombia. The crystal is 1 x 1.5 cm. Troost’s catalog...masses fetch most enormous prices. The Owner of the mine, Demidoff (a millionaire), keeps its value up to
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Journal (issue)
Militdressraum . 9-17 h . D COTTBUS . Autohaus Mercedes, Paul-Greifzu-Str . 10-15 h . Beurs . D FREIBERG...to the level 3 0 has been worked out as open pit mine . probable plane of level 700 Piane Of level 500...: d e ongelooflijke kristallen van de Black Pine Mine, Montana, USA (Waisman, 1992) . Veszelyietkristallen...centenaire (hors sĂŠrie), in Gisements Stratiformes et Province s CuprifĂŠres, 123-164 . KELLER P . (1977) . "Tsumeb...S .P ., NOTEBAART C .W . (1978) . "Libethenite from the Rokana Mine, Zambia", Min . Recor d 9(6), 341-346
Journal (issue)
pinks from Weardale and the yellows from the Hilton mine, to name but a few English localities, are a result...had supplied an excellent photograph of a Hilton Mine fluorite for the Show poster, which was distributed...and the caption to the photograph: Fluorit Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria Anglia ( 30mm es kristaly ) fot6:...arranging an interpreter for us at the Show, booking a Mercedes minibus and driver for the time we were in Budapest...took the opportunity to visit the preserved Magpie Mine at Sheldon. By day three we had passed ¡oumfries
Journal (issue)
..... 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................from a single locality: smithsonite from the Kelly mine. Probably ever since the 1860’s, when “Old Hutch”...prepare one for us; it covers not just the Kelly mine but the Mag­ dalena district as a whole. This is...Janet Hammond’s article on the Stevenson-Bennett mine (4, 31-32), which is New Mexico’s prin­ cipal famous...multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the San Pedro mine (7, 34-35). There was also a thorough review by
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country names are...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION
Journal (issue)
Jr & J. S. White, Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California.......................article “on the chondrodite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, New York.” Two of the plates show 21...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...Changma in Shandong Prov­ ince. Here the Victory No. 1 mine annually produces 1500 carats of gem quality diamonds...purple, occur in Jiangxi Province. Turquoise in solid blue shades from Hubei Province equals the best from
Journal (issue)
COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful...crystallized species, unusual associations, or individual mine localities. Similarly, the popular journals are
Journal (issue)
. . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and...citations on the Harding mine and information about other collections of Harding mine specimens. The museum...high-quality, precisely located specimens from the mine. Interested persons should send helpful information
Book (volume)
unstable and AgCl exsolves on standing.^^ Tarapacd, Chile, associated with Sylvite 7 Ref. 1. 015 Goldschmidt...various sulfates in the nitrate deposits of Tarapaca, Chile, and similarly in Peru. In the United States sylvite...England. Found in large amounts at many places in Chile, as at Caracoles in Antofagasta, the Huantajaya...Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially...Finistere, France. Found abundantly at Chanarcillo, Chile (megabromite, iodembolite, pt.) associated with
Book
2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous
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Pyrites, or Miller! te. Thrombolite. CLASS Libethenite. Placodine. Antimonial Nickel, or Copper...liberation of free sulphur. Mina Grande, near Coquimbo, Locality. with carbonate of lead and carbonate...of Alogodes (whence the name Algodonite) near Coquimbo in Chili. Comp. A compound of arsenic and copper...2ft Si + 10 H. Analysis bv D. Forbes, from i^aes Mine .....3 " Silica . . Alumina . .31-03 9'29...Kirkcudbrightshire syenite.— i^orej^fn. Norway; at Naes Mine about 10 miles east of Arendal Jotun Carbonic acid
Journal (issue)
after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and...citations on the Harding mine and information about other collections of Harding mine specimens. The museum...high-quality, precisely located specimens from the mine. Interested persons should send helpful information...(36) Tuolumne County; 2.54 cm, 1.9 cm (39) Seaton mine, Amador County; 12.07 cm (45) (no locality given);
Journal (issue)
find a pegmatite a “half-mile” from the Palermo mine, in New Hampshire. It was originally identified...removal or partial change of some reference points (mine dumps, for example), or all simple reference points...unwise in this instance. Small quarry owners and mine operators are, for the most part, unfamiliar with...Stone-Moss. • CR Y ST A L L IN E L E A D , fro m the Mine. So I call it, n ot that it is clear [in o th er... Taaffeite was noted from Sianghwaling, Hunan Province, China, in 1956. This was the source of the material
Book
produced specimens from such places as the La FĂŠ Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...WIC ' ' (OSE INSET) Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...Mexicali Show & Nensengdo Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Mod ors ified from Berstein, 1964...University of New York, Albany) Provinces / 5 The province of Sonora, located in the northwest corner of...4) is an extension of both the basin and range province, and the copper porphyry belt of the western United
Journal (issue)
.................................... 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens .................from the Dadongla (Yunchangping) mine near Tongren, Guizhou Province, China. Marcus Budil specimen; Jeff...Xikuangshan, the site of the world’s largest stibnite mine. Berthold Ottens is a German dealer and author of...today, near the ancient mine workings, there is a large open-pit copper mine which provides small calcite...of Tonglushan, near the city of Daye in Hubei Province, have revealed important historical information
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
Book
produced specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...CALl[NTCS ... I MI ( Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...University of New York, Albany) Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Modified from Berstein, 1964, back...Ttcolote • S 0 R A Sor • Provinces I 5 The province of Sonora, located in the northwest corner of...4) is an extension of both the basin and range province, and the copper porphyry belt of the western United
Journal (issue)
Moore COVER: BORNITE, 3.5 cm, from Mine 21, Dzhezkazgan mine group, Kazakhstan. Joan Massague collection;...(AsO4)5(PO4)3¡14H2O), 2-mm view, from the White Elephant mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Tom Loomis (Dakota Matrix)...w w w. FineMineral.com Rhodonite Mina do Morro Mine, Brazil 7 cm Rhodonite is a manganese mineral named...approximately 128 km2, includes the Dzhezkazgan mine group (a cluster of four mines that exploit the...the Zhilandy (Zhilandinsky) mine group to the north and the Zhartas mine are each on separate smaller
Book (edition)
British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity...Nelson, Westland, Otago, and Southland. Emperor mine, Vatukuola, Fiji. Mt. Kare, Papua New Guinea. In
Journal (issue)
points to the junction o f two veins in the Bage mine as the probable type locality fo r both species...ctober, 1992 377 Figure 1. The Cromford Moor mine near Mat­ lock, Derbyshire, England (from John M...crystal, 2.5 cm, with fluo­ rite, from the Wallclose mine, Cromford, Der­ byshire. It was sold to Charles...Phosgenite crystal, 1.2 x 2.5 x 4 cm, from the W allclose mine, Cromford, Derby­ shire. Greville collection, now...to 2.5 cm, with galena and barite, from the Bage mine, Bole Hill. Collected by Bryce M. W right, later
 
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