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Chalcanthite from
Machacamarca Mine, Machacamarca subdistrict, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcanthite
Formula:CuSO4 · 5H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Baryte3 photos of Chalcanthite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Augelite3 photos of Chalcanthite associated with Augelite at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Chalcanthite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyrite2 photos of Chalcanthite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Malachite1 photo of Chalcanthite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Machacamarca Mine, Machacamarca subdistrict, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1214720
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1214720:7
GUID (UUID V4):6a1b6e16-624d-4ffb-b577-6ae83f45f600
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
&lumino-silieates, constitution of, t 11. Alunite, Bolivia, 298. Amianthus, 342. Amphibole, soda-, 35,244...Aragouite and calcite, massive, 184, 165. Argyrodite, Bolivia, 40. Artificial anhydrite, 45. ~ boleite, cumengeite...minerals, 341. Asterism in corundmn, 52. Augelite, Bolivia, 16. Augite, Vulcano, 35. -- B~ckstrSm (H.)--Leucite...Boleite, artificial, 164. --, N. S. Wales, 165. Bolivia, 16, 40, 298, 339. Bonney (T. G.)--Cone-in-eone...Bostonite, 247, 249. Bournonite, eryst., 228. Bolivia, 22. Box-stones, 43. Brauns (R.)--91. - artificial
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Martino & A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California...387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...MINERALS LIMITED Azurite with Malachite | Milpillas Mine, Mexico | 4.5 x 3.4 x 1.9cm orders@crystalclassics
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................RECORD MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California...1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...CONVENTION 8c EXPO CENTER APRIL24-26 INESITE HALE CREEK MINE MAD RIVER ROCK, COASTAL RANGE, TRINITY CO., CALIFORNIA
Journal (issue)
ificad a m in e, C e rro R ico d e P o to si, Bolivia. R esearch C h a rita b le T ru s t sp e c im e...gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had... famous mineral localities: Cerro ;8.ico de £ofosi Bolivia ^ --------------------- Wendell E. Wilson 4631...85750 Alfredo Petrov Casilla 1728 Cochabamba, Bolivia Cerro Rico ( “Rich M ou n tain ”) de Potosi is...(1519-1521) and Pizarro conquered Peru and what is now Bolivia (1531-1535). Tons of silver began to pour from
Journal (issue)
M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 3 • $25 & Wayne...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...crystals to 1.6 cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana...world-class realgar specimens from the Royal Reward mine, Green River Gorge, King County, Washington. The
Journal (issue)
....... 290 COLLECTING MINERALS AT LLALLAGUA, BOLIVIA. By Gerald U. Greene .................•................................. 300 SOUDAN, MINN., IRON MINE ·······················································-...Whole No. 147 COLLECTING MINERALS AT LLALLAGUA, BOLIVIA By GERALD U. GREENE Cleveland, Ohio The Antofagasta-La...young American engineers, who had been sent to Bolivia to examine the tin mines of Simon I. Potino, sleepily...breezes blowing along the reaches of Altiplano of Bolivia reminded one of the winter Dakotan breezes off
Journal (issue)
Number Four Articles The El Desierto sulfur mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....of the Mazarrón-Águilas mining district, Murcia Province, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...mineral localities: The Pacajake selenium mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....1980 when he paid me a visit at the Jacupiranga mine; somehow he had learned of my mineralogical researches...studies of the mineralogy of the now-famous Brumado mine in Bahia, recovering countless superb crystal specimens
Journal (issue)
EUCLASE with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See...ROOMJ53 BARITE 20.3 CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA TOM SPANN PHOTO ■ ...1751 was funded mainly by donations from wealthy mine owners and from simple mining families. Modem times...when the area was also being referred to as Bana ("Mine"), and in 1228 when the name Argentifodina ("Silver...runoff from the mine dumps); this was later combined with the word Banska meaning "mine." The name Banska
Book
surfaces some minerals, such as melanterite and chalcanthite become paler, and it is advisable to store them...identification. For instance, rock salt and chalcanthite dissolve readily in water, whereas other minerals...tricltn ic (2) albite kyanite gypsum realgar chalcanthite sassolite rhodonite augite orthoclase C...Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of...Schwarzwald (FRG), in large masses in (Chile) and (Bolivia)• Application: copper ore. Kermesite (Red antimony
Book
illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...surfaces some minerals, such as melanterite and chalcanthite become paler, and it is advisable to store them...identification. For instance, rock salt and chalcanthite dissolve readily in water, whereas other minerals...triclinic (2) at p#y#90° ees HI albite kyanite chalcanthite sassolite rhodonite {_L/ monoclinic (3) ...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of
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
Book (volume)
Argentina, at Potosi and other localities in Bolivia, and in Peru. In Mexico found in Zacatecas and...Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially...probably also occurs in that state in the Hechman mine, near Globe, Gila County. Many other occurrences...with atacamite in limestone at the San Augustin mine, Huantajaya, near Iquique, Chile, as an alteration... Sierra County, New Mexico, At the Commonwealth mine, associated with vanadates and calcite. deposits
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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
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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
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina...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)...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)
from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho (see vol. 13, no. 5) and wulfenite from the 79 mine, Arizona (see vol....action or inaction which might offend or aggravate mine owners. Secondly it means the most careful and skillful...determine visually . . . such falls within the province of scientific appreciation. A broken or stream-rounded...festation, beyond simple specialization in a certain province, involves ignorance of and lack of exposure to...whatever errors in reasoning that may remain are mine alone. REFERENCES BENTLEY, R. E., WILSON, W. E.
Book (edition)
one species only, or even specimens only from one mine. Whatever limits the collector imposes on himself...form of chalcedony. From the copper deposits in Bolivia come splendid specimens of native copper perfectly...in quartz. A 7” rock crystal from the San Pedro Mine, Hiriart Hill, Pala, San Diego County, California...before two slender pink crystals from the Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California. Ordinary light is...because special pains are taken to discover and mine the deposits in which they are concentrated. Thus
Book (edition)
44. c 1 3 .50 A. A natural occurrence at a coal mine in the (TL) Lvov-Volynsk basin, USSR. Achates. syn...09. c 7.76 A . Z=2 [PDF 27-620]. (TL) San Carlos mine. Guanajuato. Mexico. Named for S. Aguilar. Agustitc...25- 1 233 on synth. crystals). (TL) Colqucchaca. Bolivia. Named for F. Ahlfcld. Forms a series with the...PDF 34- 1 266 on synth. material]. (TL) Akaganc mine. Iwate Pref., Japan. Named for locality. 9 Akalidavyne...Nufficld ( 1 954) Amer. Min. 39, 338]. (TL) Alaska mine. Colorado. USA. Named for locality. Alaun, syn.
Book (edition)
one species only, or even specimens only from one mine. Whatever limits the collector imposes on himself...form of chalcedony. From the copper deposits in Bolivia come splendid specimens of native copper perfectly...in quartz. A 7" rock crystal from the San Pedro Mine, Hiriart Hill, Pala, San Diego County, California...before two slender pink crystals from the Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California. Ordinary light is...because special pains are taken to discover and mine the deposits in which they are concentrated. Thus
Book (edition)
as siderite, and blue vitriol is now called chalcanthite. The general chemistry of individual species...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
Book (edition)
Gypsum. Polyhalite. Epsomite. Copperas group. Chalcanthite, CuSO 4 + 5aq, also the other vitriols, ; ;...gold is found in Brazil in New Granada ; Chili in Bolivia sparingly Also in Central America, in Honduras...rare, and mostly in filaments at the Ophir tained. mine rare, and disseminated or filamentous in California...its name platina,, from plata, silver. In the province of Antioquia, in Brazil, it has been found in...superior hardness. Obs. Occurs with platinum in the province of Choco in South America in the Ural mounin Australia
Report (volume)
California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Compressor NEW YORK Crushing Rolls Air Compressors Mine Pumps Ball Mills Blast Furnaces Oil Engines Screens...considered to be working the public and not the mine. Many suspicious promotions are however not positively...Huanchaca de Bolivia, Antofagasta, Chile, S. A. Cable: Howban, BANCROFT, Rowland, Mine Valuation, Apartado...Elisabethville, Katanga, Congo Beige, Africa. Available for mine examinations America or Africa after July, 1923
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the arts is the proper focus of interest at every mine; that the operations converging on this point are...conditions The problem of ore treatment confronts every mine manager. Mining should be looked upon as a manufacturing...crushers that first take the ore as it comes from the mine (some of them can take 6-ft. cubes) are called COARSE...flow-sheet at a large mine has more steps and is more complicated than that at a small mine. Grade of ore. High-grade...The fact that the mill owner is also usually the mine owner is not sufficient insurance as to the adequacy
 
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