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Opal from
Los Tres Presidentes Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Los Tres Presidentes Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:283133
Long-form Identifier:1:3:283133:6
GUID (UUID V4):adccef96-65a8-43e4-b9d6-4bf490229f1a
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been characterized using natural specimens from Chile and Iran and is named herbertsmithite. The other...spectroscopy, XRD, Cu chlorides, Anarak, Iran, Sierra Gorda, Chile. Introduction IN 1972, Adib and Ottemann...ā€˜ā€˜zincan paratacamiteā€™ā€™ from Herminia mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile, with a composition close to Cu3Zn(OH)6Cl2...and Generosa mines, Sierra Gorda, and the Bolaco mine, San CristoĢbal, all in Chile. Chemical analysis...material collected from Mina Los Tres Presidentes, Sierra Gorda, Chile, and which he had analysed. The
Report (issue)
d. Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mina Los Tres Presidentes, Chile. 2.764 (100), 5.466 (55), 2.266 (36)...18.2 17.2 12.5 3.9 100.1 (1) Mina LosTres Presidentes, Chile; average of 5 electron microprobe analyses...mineral deposits. Association: Gypsum, opal, dioptase (Chile); wulfenite, hemimorphite, chrysocolla,...diabolƩite (Iran). Distribution: Mina Los Tres Presidentes, Sierra Gorda, Chile; at the Kali Kafi and Chah Khouni
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gypsum on chert that I collected at the Minerva No. 1 mine dump in 1985. It had bundles of orange crystals...specimens I had collected in 1995 from the Annabel Lee mine ore pile had been cataloged as "celestine." I found...trips into the tluorspar district. One of the stops was the Pigmy (Pygmy) mine, near the village of Mexico...Mexico in Crittenden Co., KY. A description of this mine can be found in Goldstein ( 1997) or on the mindat...the only manganese minerals described from the district are "wad" which occurs in residual soils and manganese
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2007 Collector's Newsletter $3.00 History of Mining the Main Tantalite Dyke Wodgina, Western Australia...interest and her enthusasium, she promoted tantalite mining in the remote Pilbara, providing the United States...the PiIbara were discovered during a cassiterite mining boom in I 901-5. The brothers Francis Hawes Michell...92). Then, the Michell brothers were working as mining engineers at TantalitefromtheWodginaMainTantaliteDyke...Crystalis ninecm in length. the Mons Cupri Copper Mine, southwest of Whim Creek. After confirming its identity
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CeCu6(AsO4)3(OH)6ā€¢3H2O H EXAGONAL Locality: The Clara mine, central Black Forest, Germany. Occurrence: Associated...the long-abandoned Clear Creek mercury mine, New Idria district, San Benito County, California, USA. Occurrence:...of the Argentinaā€“Chile border, in the Andean Puna, Los Andes Department, Salta Province, Argentina (Lat...Mina Los Tres Presidentes, Sierra Gorda, Chile (type locality). Also from (2) the Kali Kafi mine, Anarak...Anarak, Iran and from (3) the Chah Khouni mine, Anarak, Iran. Occurrence: (1) On a white quartzite. Associated
 
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