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Aragonite from
San Francisco Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Cleavage corresponds to aragonite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Francisco Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1622148
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1622148:2
GUID (UUID V4):62bb79dc-7957-4919-8333-ce24cfe03e1f
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
7.0km (4.3 miles) La Compañia Mine, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
34.3km (21.3 miles) Colina Larga Mine, Cerritos Bayos, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Gerhard Möhn collectionIdentified by Gerhard Möhn: Wet Chemical, SEM-EDS
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crystals from the Aris Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District. Khomas Region. Namibia). In my view they are...collected April or May 2006 in the Cigana Mine (used to be Jocao Mine) (Galilea, Minas Gerais, • Brasil). The...crystals on prehnite from Da Liang Shan (Sichuan Province. China) but never saw them myself, but I did see...novelty. Vesuvianite crystals from Da Ye (Hubei Province) were new to me. The crystals are about 1 cm,...the vendors said the material comes from a copper mine - they are unusual in metamorphic, calc-silicic
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the Thomas Vein, Central l(entuclry Fluorspar District Alan Goldstein 1607 Washington Blvd. Louisville...of the more famous Illinois-Kentucky lluorspar district. (Despite the editor-produced title in Goldstein...mineral name.) The Central Kentucky lluorspar district is certainly less wellknown, having been sporadically...northern end of district. For a review of the ,eneral geology of history of the district, see Anderson...minerals were found on one of the umps of the Diamond Mine northeast of Grand Rapids, Minesota. Although not
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Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal from...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless...Bandylite 27 CuB(OH)4F Locality: Palestina, Atacama, Chile. Description: Blue crystals from the association...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description:
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Transylvania, Romania). A new mineral for this famous gold mining locality and Romania. The mineral is associated...Kladno on the dumps of a long time closed uranium mine at Slavkovicc, western Moravia, Czech Republic....lavendulan from Santa Catalina Mine. Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The lavendulan is not present...sampleite in Chile; first reported in Mineral News, March, 1997 issue from the El Guanaco gold mine near Taltal...Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Wolscndorlite was found on a very old specimen (late Continued on
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Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de... tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the San Rafael swell about 47...Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza, Argentina. l'UM...a seri Qlh·enite. compare E\Clte. Chanårcillo. Chile . .\U 6. 320-328 (str.) witb 0/ivenite 0 Adamsite-(\')...AgardJte-(Ce), CeCu.(AsO4)i(OH).-3H1O, hex., Clara mine, central Black Forest, Gennany,A1ifSS(2004),17-23
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maand worden specimens van boleiet van de Amelia mine in Mexico aangeboden. Meer details hierover vind...BUDAPEST. Óbudai Kulturális Központ Nonprofit Kft., San Marco utca 81. www...from the Woods mine, NSW, Australia 21-24 Coulselite, a new mineral from the Cleveland mine, Luina, Tasmania...Australia 47-52 The supergene zone of the Peak Hill gold mine, NSW, Australia 53-60 The gold nugget bonanza of...10.09 396-413 Creede, the last wild west silver mining camp in Colorado (USA) 414-424 Colorado miner&l
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crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...100. Found at several mines in the Huantajaya district, calcite, embolite, cerargyrite, bromyrite, iodyrite...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...in great quantities during the early period of mining in these districts. An earthy variety (Buttermilk
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from the El Tatio geothermal field, Antofagasta Province, Chile K. A. RODGERS1,{, R. GREATREX1, M. HYLAND2...the high-temperature El Tatio geothermal field of Chile. Other minerals present include halite, which is... halite, evaporite, geothermal field, El Tatio, Chile. Introduction TERUGGITE, Ca4MgB12As2O28.18H2O,... was first described from Loma Blanca, Jujuy Province, Argentina by Aristarain and Hurlbut (1968). The...is associated with inyoite, calcite, ulexite, aragonite, realgar and orpiment. Alonso et al. (1988) regarded
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Av. Jose Galvez Barrenechea 218, Urb. Corpac Lima-San Isidro, Peru Prof. Dr. ESTEBAN CEDILW Facultad de...Geologia, Universidad de Guanajuato Ex-Hacienda de San Matias s/n Apartado Postal 347 Guanajuato, Gto. 36020...Universidad de Concepci6n Casilla 4107 Concepci6n, Chile ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1.... . . . 37 The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc
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not be reliable, for information about from which mine they came. Most will have forgotten but often will...erroneous detailed location data. The Sweet Surrender mine near Story is located near the northwest end of...Show. We might have done better buying a bucket of mine run quartz and cleaned it at home. These run from...Schmitt and Joe Castoral are now mining the Clear Creek Crystal mine near Oden, west of Lake Ouachita...Stu thinks they are better than Sweet Surrender mine and he is probably right. Stuart is a true wholesaler
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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...International border -----·- Departmental border 22 + Antofagasta ! i A RGENT A 0 100 0 640 200 100 600............................ 4 BY ALFREDO PETROV Mining, Politics, and Tumult: A Brief Look at Bolivian...BY JAROSLAV HYRSL AND ALFREDO PETROV The Poopo District .............................................
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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)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....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
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SEE VAN NEW YORK CINCINNATI ATLANTA DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO LONDON TORONTO MELBORNE Van Nostrand Reinhold...Offices: New York Cincinnati Atlanta Dallas San Francisco Van Nostrand Reinhold Company International...crystallographers, geologists, petrologists, geochemists, mining engineers, mineral assayers, curators, collectors...States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, Chile, and Peru have been honored. This honor has also...chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius
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Trebisky and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California..........................c o rc l W \ Beryl. The Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina... PERI LITHON BOOKS Box 9996, 5372 Van Nuys Ct. San Diego, CA 92109 P.O. BOX 487-MF, YUCAIPA, CALIF...made his mark in a tourmaline find at the B.B. #7 mine in north Norway, Maine, and came to fame as the...Maine, and proceeded to learn Maine’s pegmatites by mining them. He has, over the years, mined commercial-grade
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