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Tourmaline from
Cerillos Mine, Quebrada Seca, Caldera, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerillos Mine, Quebrada Seca, Caldera, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1607972
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1607972:8
GUID (UUID V4):d1f6a2c2-7ff0-4e9f-a193-1c52f83fad5f
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
58.5km (36.4 miles) Adrianitas-Raúl Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
62.4km (38.7 miles) Portezuelo de Pajas Blancas deposit, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
80.1km (49.8 miles) Lucero mine, Cabeza de Vaca mining district, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
88.2km (54.8 miles) Los Colorados Mine, Huasco, Huasco Province, Atacama, Chile
90.5km (56.2 miles) Japonesa Mine, Cabeza de Vaca mining district, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
90.8km (56.4 miles) Copiapó Nordeste prospect, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
96.6km (60.0 miles) San Samuel Mine ("San Manuel Mine"), Carrera Pinto, Cachiyuyo de Llampos mining district, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
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(Sverige) Aln6 lsland, titanomagnetite, 265 Brattfors mine, Nordmarks Odalffalt, Viirmland, manganhumite, katoptrite...Gutter, Brook, Hampshire, glauconite, 373 Mill Close mine, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, corundophilite, I7I Seathwaite... 373 Turf Pits mine, Grassington, Yorkshire, spencerite, I76 Cornwall Botallack mine, digenite, I72 Carn...Just, Land's End, epidote, axinite, hornblende, tourmaline, 427 Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet...pseudomorphous after analcime, 245 INDEX Geevor mine, neotocite, 279 and M26 Luxulyan, luxullianite (in
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Esquimaux. ATACAMITE. BROCHANTITE. Beads, Chile. Beads, Chile. x6th Century. CYANITE. Used in Europeanjewelry... cut by German lapidary Cornellius). x573. TOURMALINE. I573, found in Brazil: identifiedby Dutch in...preciousand semi-precious stones were known to man. Tourmaline, however, I am satisfiedmust have'beenimportedinto...Island, Red Sea. •,Ioo B.C. Jade mined in Shen-si province, China. Looo-7,ooo B.C. Sicilian amber produced...-:,ooo A.D. : A.D. Nishapur (Persia) turquoise mine probably opened up; perhaps, however, not until
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mentioned t h a t most of the mineral from the Bunny mine, St. Austell, was in colour light blue-green, but...turquoise-blue. Likewise, at the Castle-an-Dinas wolfram mine, St. Columb Major, there occurred rarely in addition...Speefinens of this turquoise were found at the Bunny mine, associated with varlamoffite. 8 ][ have since found...1908), which lies some 670 yards south-west of Bunny mine. Traversing almost the full length of the pit is...almost certainly a continuation of one of the Bunny mine lodes. A year or two back, this lode was even better
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from the world renowned locality at Chanarcillo, Chile is present in outstanding groups of crystals, some... botryoidal specimens is present from the Kelly Mine, Magdalena, New Mexico to a foot and a half in size...groups of dark brown crystals from the old Wheatley Mine at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Not many of these...(SPHENE) is present from the old Tilly Foster Iron Mine at ROCKS AND MINERALS Brewster, New York in nine...which were obtained from a Mr. Beadle in 1874. TOURMALINE is predominant in the Bement collection from
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documented in the mid-Tertiary Basin and Range province of the United States. The concept presented was...Graben. ELSTON (1984) defines the Basin and Range province (western Mexico and southwestern USA) as the site...English language caldera (spanish for kettle) and cauldron are synonymous. A caldera is a topographic...(1973) # 40 The German language uses only the word caldera. Resurgence in the sense of SMITH & BAILi~Y(1968)...BAILi~Y(1968) means a magma pulse later than caldera collapse. 2. S o u t h w e s t e r n N o r t h A m e r i c
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the Paleozoic Sambagawa schists; and the Huelva province in Spain ( Rio Tinto). Cimmerian pyritic deposits...Cheshmeh, e t c . ) , recently discovered in this province, are genetically associated with orogenic intrusions...and some of them (located in the south of the province) are of Early Cretaceous age. They are usually...Argentina in the south. The unique deposits of Peru and Chile are located here (fig. 6). The chalcopyrite volcanogenic...volcanogenic and skarn copper deposits of Chile, as understood from the work of Ruiz et al. ( 1971), are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ude of 13,000 feet, and at, a rope garnets. mica mine near New Milford, Conn., where $15,000 The finest...spessartite of Amelia Court House, Va., Nearly every mine so far discovered was workeg.bY that has recently...come Spaniards seized the turquoise mines at Los Cerillos from the Tyrol, whilp at severa.1 American localities...posits and associated with a variety of fossils; also mine by throwing water on the walls after they had with...Sinai . Companies are now working mines near Los Cerillos THE device consists of a square straw board paper
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commissioners have been so hampered by the fancies of the mine owners or others in their districts that, though...improved. A glass-plate model of the zinc mines at Mine Hill, Franklin Furnace, Sussex county, is an attractive...cross-section of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company's mine is given. A wooden model of the No. 4 Ore Dock at...the Calumet and Hecla mine, and of the rock and shaft house of the Tamarack mine. Other interesting features...are also displayed. A wooden model of the Chandler mine, and a number of maps showing the mines and the
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of its localities, Bunny mine, St. Austell, and Castle-an-Dinas wolfram mine, St. Columb Major. As a result...News, 1864, vol. 10, p. 290. 2. Turquoise, Los Cerillos, New Mexico. It. Jung, Chemie der Erde, 1932,...Castle-an-Dinas mine, St. Columb Major, Cornwall. Analyst, J. A. Smythe. 5. Rashleighite, Bunny mine, St. Austell...p. 19. [M.A. 5-391.] 7. Chalcosiderite, Phoenix mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. N. S. Maskelyne, Journ....uranium oxide trace. 8. Andrewsite West Phoenix mine, St. Cleer, Cornwall. N. S. Maskelyne. Ibid., p
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sphalerite. Luster resinous' Sp' ir' 6.697. in Los Cerillos' 7 km' southwestof OccunnrNco: From a small, abandoned...pegmatite' Sanmartinite willemite' to replace,quartz' tourmaline, and *n".ft i of Argentina' Jos6de : For tn"
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containing selenium and tellurium from El Plomo mine, Ojojama District, Honduras. Two of these have proved...Galena, Cherokee Go., Kansas. When taken from the mine, it is soft, full of water, and resembles white...existence of a large body of this peculiar ore in the mine. An analysis of a dried sample yielded : Insol....are represented as turquoise with gold from Los Cerillos, New Mexico. Specimens analysed by the author...63-42 3-23 31.83 6. ScnpoZite.-At the Elizabeth mine, French Creek, Pennsylvania, small crystals of scapolite
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sphalerite. Luster resinous' Sp' ir' 6.697. in Los Cerillos' 7 km' southwestof OccunnrNco: From a small, abandoned...pegmatite' Sanmartinite willemite' to replace,quartz' tourmaline, and *n".ft i of Argentina' Jos6de : For tn"
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St. Just aureole, Cornwall, 427 Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369 Alkali feldspar,...breakdown product of staurolite from Donegal, 237 Auburn mine, Michigan, stilpnomelane, 36I and M37 Augite, Turkey...anal., opt., sp. gr., X-ray, I79 Bali Low copper mine, Capricorn Range, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369... Larne, Co. Antrim, tobermorite, 229 Bambollita mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, tlapallite, 183 Ban...Pembrokeshire, 8 I Bingham, Utah, tobermorite, 229 Binny mine, Kondapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India, chromite, bronzite
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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
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frontispiece is a striking combi nation of quartz and tourmaline, also from Lincoln County, North Carolina. The...were found at Haddam Neck, Conn., a quantity of tourmaline crystals of a beautiful combina tion of colors...the matrix of sharply terminated crystals of tourmaline ; the quality of both minerals being so fine...pretty black things in the world, is called " Tourmaline." It may be transparent, and green, or red, as... opaque, and as black as jet." " What does ' Tourmaline ' mean V " " They say it is Ceylanese, and I
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sedimentary character is ob­ scured. Nearly every mine so far discovered was workeg.bY the natives before...The Spaniards seized the turquoise mines at Los Cerillos when they conquered New Mexico, and forced great...turquoise by cracking the rock from the sides of the mine by throwing water on the walls after they had been...Sinai . Companies are now working mines near Los Cerillos and the Buno Mountains, New Mexico, and elsewhere...crowbars fragments of the rock from the side of the mine, which is cut into narrow terraces, like a gib'antic
Report (issue)
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...in Oruro ... 26 BY ROBERT B. COOK The Morococala Mine ..................................................Deposit: A Pre-Columbian Gem Mine ........... 80 BY ALFREDO PETROV The Anahi Mine ..........................(Chacaltaya, about 5,100 meters), the highest metallic ore mine (Chorolque, up to 5,450 meters), and so on. But
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(admixture of Cr''). Height 7cm. b. Polychromatic tourmaline. 5. Fine zoned crystals. a. Synthetic quartz...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...during the warm season. Only a watchman stays at the mine through the winter. Last year, the teamleader Vasilii...Outstanding specimens - emeralds, alexandrite, topazes, tourmaline, andmanyothersfivm Urals and Fastem Siberia;...with crystals of orange danburite, polychrome tourmaline, and morion. The second subtype comprises superimposed
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in work, but no true red rubies or true blue mica mine near New Milford, Conn., where $ 15,000 THE laRt...sedimentary character is obscured. N early every mine so far discovered was worked by the natives before...turquoise by cracking the rock from the sides of the mine by throwing water on the walls after t'1ey had been...Sinai. Companies are now working mines near Los Cerillos and the Buno Mountains, New Mexico, and elsewhere...were sold within a short time to Farther India. The mine itself is an excavation about six hun­ dred feet
Report (volume)
.....................^. .........'....' 58 Tourmaline.........-...-..---..----.----.---------.-------...Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...[BULL. 220. POLYDYMITE. A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25... 4.80 3.25 STROMEYERITE. From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity
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in work, but no true red rubies or true blue mica mine near New Milford, Conn., where $15,000 THE laRt...sedimentary character is obscured. N early every mine so far discovered was worked by the natives before...turquoise by cracking the rock from the sides of the mine by throwing water on the walls after t'1ey had been...Sinai. Companies are now working mines near Los Cerillos and the Buno Mountains, New Mexico, and elsewhere...were sold within a short time to Farther India. The mine itself is an excavation about six hun­ dred feet
Report (volume)
all red stones: spinel, ruby, garnet, and rose tourmaline; the term "sapphire," to lapis lazuli and other...beauty of irregularly colored stones, such as tourmaline. UNIT OF WEIGHT The carat, meaning one-fifth...dikes contain a variety of gem stones, such as tourmaline, beryl (emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite...Ford, Burke County; the J. B. Twitty gold placer mine, Rutherford County; Cottage Home, Lincoln County;...Kings Mountain, Cleveland County; and Portis gold mine, Franklin County. In South Carolina diamonds have
Report (issue)
............................................ 49 MINE DESCRIPTIONS ....................................................... 51 Marshall Bonanza Mine ............................................................................................. 52 Tom Payne Mine ................................................................................. 55 Pennsylvania Mine ................................................................................... 57 Cash Entry Mine ...............................................
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Dolores for milling the ores from the celebrated Ortiz mine in Santa Fe County; one at the gold camp of Pinos...Pinos Altos in Grant County; and one at the Aztec mine at the head of Ute Creek on Baldy Mountain, in Colfax...Oro, constituting what is now known as the Ortiz mine. In the Los Cerrillos district, a few miles west...water level and have been flooded ever since the mine was originally abandoned, the full extent of underground...remnants of an old canoe were still in evidence in the mine. This curious water HISTORICAL 11 craft was
 
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