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Atacamite from
Sofia Mine, Puquios mining district, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Atacamite
Formula:Cu2(OH)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Atacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sofia Mine, Puquios mining district, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:535126
Long-form Identifier:1:3:535126:8
GUID (UUID V4):76ee5126-18fb-4107-a61f-3f452ce3b745
References
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Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the Atacama Desert: Refining the Protocol for...Minerals 2022, 12, 79 Romania Bulgaria Serbia Sofia Mace donia Black Sea Balkan Mountains High land...Map Sheet; Geology and Geophysics Corporation: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1995. Okay, A.; Satır, M.; Tüysüz, O...region, SE Bulgaria. Geochem. Mineral. Petrol.·Sofia 2006, 44, 73–89. Kamenov, B.K.; Vergilov, V.; Dabovski...and magmatic evolution. Geochem. Mineral. Petrol.·Sofia 2010, 48, 1–37. Schaller, M.; Lachner, J.; Christl
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cavity of dolomite carbonatite. 6 x 5 cm. Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Fersman Mineralogical...Administratively, the Imeretinsky site is located in the Urup district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, 60 km SW of...It corresponds those of leadhillite from Mammoth Mine , Arizona, USA and to the empirical formula Pb...complete resemblance to that of caledon.ite from Rowley Mine, Arizona, USA (;;060506 from the RR FF database)...first ti.me in the sample from the Preobrazhensky mine at the Berezovskoe gold deposit in the Central Urals
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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:
Book
-- � rn· ..__ EARTH AND MAN NATIONAL MUSEUM SOFIA y GENERAL INFORMATION The Earth and Man National...Elshitsa, (x5 ) The museum is located in downtown Sofia in a restored building, a cultural monument from...the museum. Various institutions of metallurgy, mining and geology endowed mone­ tary gifts for buying...clenche; "dodecahedron" chalcopy­ ritc from Strashimir mine; disso­ lution fonns of be1yl from Minas Gcrais;...sits: hibonite f ro m Androy, Madagascar (E 104); atacamite from Copiapo, Chi le ( E 1 06); ottrelite fro
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Historical highlights of gold mining in Romania 10 2. Overview of the gold mining in Romania 12 3. The metallogenic...Metaliferi Mts. 15 4. Baia Mare metallogenic district 64 5. Other sources of native gold from Romania...alabandite, etc. The museum belongs to ”MINVEST” - Deva mining company. After 1990, when everybody expected a...courage and commitment of several people devoted to mining and geology (the mayor of Brad – Florin Cazacu...from various mineral, rock and mining tool collections belonging to mining companies from the end of the
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variety of a fourth polymorph, additional to atacamite, paratacamite, and botallackite, and indexed on... A steel-grey mineral from the Sedmochislenitsi mine, Bulgaria, with tennantite, bornite, chalcopyrite...with klockmannite and tellurites at the Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, are tetragonal, a 3"865...hexagonal plates from the Foote Company's spodumene mine at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina...Mn ~+ and Mn 3+ from the Takayama mine, a branch of the Bunko mine, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan: 'believed
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Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...graduating from the Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) Mining Institute. Working here for nearly a year, the...right to the 1 4 W o r l d of Stones, N9.11 /96 mining and exploration for chromediopside here. A portion
Book
1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
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History Mining Background India is a vast and densely populated country with a history of mining going...(the Golconda district in the princely state of Hyderabad, now Andhra Pradesh; a district located between...between the Mahanadi and Godavari valleys; and a district around Panna in the old region of Bundelkand, now...in the early 1800’s at Padyur in the Coimbatore district of Tamilnadu. Exceptionally deep blue aquamarine... and there is likewise little thought given by mining personnel to saving specimens that are primarily
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involvement in collecting the great Bunker Hill mine pyromorphite bonanza, was born in Spokane, Washington...mined by a Phelps Dodge subsidiary as the Sherwood mine. His career was interrupted by the draft in November...engineering capacities. His mining career restarted in 1961 at the Black Pine mine in Phillipsburg, Montana...(the type locality for phillipsburgite), but the mine quickly ran out of ore, so he went to work for the...Norm was hired as a geologist at the Bunker Hill mine, where he worked for more than 16 years. He continued
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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...Louis Cordier (1777-1861), French geologist and mining engineer; student of Haiiy; helped enlarge the...identified as scientists, or related to mineral mining, collecting, or exploration, there are some cases
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2 , Ana I. Janeiro 1 , Manuel F. C. Pereira 3 , Sofia Martins 1,4 , Sven Petersen 4 and Fernando J. A...available in near-real time. Keywords: seafloor mining; Mid Atlantic Ridge; TAG hydrothermal field; sediment...EU-FP7-funded project “Blue Mining-breakthrough solutions for sustainable deep sea mining”. In this work, rapid...of this mineral. Furthermore, minerals of the atacamite group were described onboard in the top-most layer...of this mineral. Furthermore, minerals of the atacamite group were described onboard in the topmost layer
Report (issue)
PROSPECTS OF THE I, H, IE, IV, AND V REGIONS, NORTHERN CHILE compiled by William C. Williams Open-File Report...complement to my dissertation work in northern Chile under the auspices of Dr. John Guilbert at the University...prospects in the I, n, IE, IV, and V Regions of Chile (Figure 1). Over 3000 sites were compiled from published...well as descriptions of the major mines throughout Chile with insights as to their genesis. Finally, Frutos...accessed through MRDS computer database). District Name District to which site belongs. Lati tude / Long
Journal (issue)
ma/achite c,ysta/s. Mednorudyanskii Mine, Midd/e Ura/s. 4.5 ст across. Тhе Mining Museum, St.Petersburg (ММ),...malachite pseudomorphs after azurite, cerussite, and atacamite, i.e., minerals typical ofoxidized zones capping...picturesque specimens of malacl1ite pseudomorphs after atacamite were found in the Turiynskiye mines, North Urals...pseudosta/actites оп wa/1ofjissure in mica schist. Gumeshevskii Mine, Middle Urals. Pseudosta/actites 2 ст. SGM, № 11945...сотр/еtе/у in minera/ forming solution. Gumeshevskii Mine, Middle Ura/s. 8 ст. мм, № 278/99. Photo: А. Sverdlov
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J. Murton, Berit Lehrmann, Adeline M. Dutrieux, Sofia Martins, Alba Gil de la Iglesia, Iain J. Stobbs...Murton 1*, Berit Lehrmann 1, Adeline M. Dutrieux 2, Sofia Martins 5 1,6, 6 Laurence J. North 1, Isobel...25 land-based resources, may result in deep sea mining within the next decade. Seafloor massive 26 sulphide...deposits are likely to more accessible to future mining and far more 29 abundant, but are often obscured...low-carbon economy (Zepf et 48 al. 2014). Yet the mining industry faces numerous challenges including rising
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North Dakota and Washington, and began working as a mining geologist in 1950. During World War II he had served...800-634-4000, code SGE0699 June 4 - 6,1999 ★ MINING ★ GEOLOGY ★ GEMSTONES ★ MINERALOGY ★ JEWELRY ★...1998 Ernest H. Nickel* Division of Exploration & Mining, CSIRO Private Bag, P.O. Wembley, W.A., 6014, Australia...unclear. One such case is the occurrence of “post-mining minerals,” new sub­ stances that owe their origin... at least in part, to human activities such as mining or quarrying. If such substances are formed purely
Book
org/details/geologyofchile0000unse The Geology of Chile • The Geologica l Society of London Books Editorial...T. & GIBBO, s, W . (eds) 2007 . The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society, London. CHARRIER, R., PINTO...the Andean Orogeo in Chile. Jn: MORENO, T. & GrnsoNs, W. (eds) The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society...Society, London, 21-114. The Geology of Chile EDITED BY TERESA MORENO Earth Sciences Institute 'J aume...Grosjean 13. Field excursion from central Chile to the Atacama De<,crt. W. Gibbons & -1. Moreno 329
Journal (volume)
2007 PAPERS Zoned oxidation deposits in Tynebottom Mine, Garrigil1, Cumbria Trevo r F. Bridges and David...Copper·bearing silica gel from the walls of the Tankardstown mine, Co. Waterford, Treland Stephen Moreton 10-17 ...47-50 NOTES Childrenite from the English Lake District Richard S. W. Braithwaite and Richard P.H. Lamb...and 1. Ike Wilson 52-54 Powellite from Benallt mine, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd: a first Welsh occurrence...Tom F. Cotterell 54-55 Cesarolite from Frongoch Mine, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales Tom F. Cotterell
Journal (issue)
inclusions. СgophоtolиmiпеsceRе (77К). Liaonin Province, China. Specimen: Yana Baa. (right) Photoluminescence...calcite; crystal aggregates 15 cm in size. Vеrklinii Mine, Dabugorsk, Pпmorskii Krai, Russia. Specimen: V...crystal (about З т т across) with vacuoles. Liaonin Province, China, Specimen: Yana Bao. (left) Laser luminescence...vacuoles and mineral inclusions (10'). Liaonin Province, China. Specimen: Boo Yana. (left) Luminescence...found among the Chinese crystals from the Liaonin Province, Northeastern China (samples of these crystals
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Mexico. Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be...conifer trees, which are (or were) living things. Mining for minerals is tricky and it can be dangerous...available. The main source was once the Kongsberg Mine in Norway, but this closed in 1956. Man has, however...the silver produced today is a byproduct of lead mining. ◄ Example of natural silver - silver threads on...Clear crystals of anglesite on galena found in a mine near Cagliari, Sardinia. ► Anglesite crystals on
Journal (issue)
STONEREALM-93 61 Cover 1 Rose topaz. Andree-Yulievskii Mine, South Urals, crystal 2,2 x 0,5 cm. Museum of the...opposite the Khitostrov, is about 3 km from Karel’skii Mine, where a road passes along the Shchuch’e Lake shore...marble onyx. It was the beginning of unprecedented mining pro­ ject resulting in the destruction of this...«Soyuzquartzsamotsvet» enterprise after the beginning of the mining project. I agree with this point of view, based...very large con­ tinuation was found during the mining works in the small Promeszutochnaya Cave as well
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)...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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Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet ...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;
 
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