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Paratacamite from
Remolinos mine, Vallenar, Huasco Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Paratacamite
Formula:Cu3(Cu,Zn)(OH)6Cl2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Paratacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Remolinos mine, Vallenar, Huasco Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:535404
Long-form Identifier:1:3:535404:7
GUID (UUID V4):60c8f4c2-df39-4426-9feb-98f5a8a23e47
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Paratacamite Cu2 Cl(OH)3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point...X-ray Powder Pattern: Sierra Gorda [district], Chile; almost identical to clinoatacamite. (ICDD 19-389)...65 Total 100.44 [100.00] 100.00 (1) Generosa mine, Chile; same material later shown by electron microprobe...microprobe to also contain Zn 2.45%. (2) Remolinos, Chile; recalculated to 100% after deduction of insoluble...e, boleite (Sierra Gorda district, Chile). Distribution: In Chile, from the Generosa and Herminia mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
34 On paratacamite and some related copper chlorides. 1 By CLIFFORD FRONDEL,Ph.D. H a r v a r d University...collection labelled paratacamite. These were labelled as from Remolinos, Vallinar, Chile (no. 97523), and...and from Sierra Gorda, Chile (no. 82883). Paratacamite was originally described b y G. F. Herbert Smith...Sierra Gorda, Chile, and another occurrence is mentioned at the Bolaco mine, San Cristobal, Chile. Paratacamite...reference works. The H a r v a r d specimen from Remolinos comprised a dense mass of antlerite in which were
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: Chuquicamata, Chile; nearly identical to paratacamite. 5.47 (100), 2.742 (70), 2.767...65 3.74 Total [101.0] 100.00 (1) Chuquicamata, Chile; by electron microprobe, H2 O calculated from stoichiometry;...Polymorphous with atacamite, botallackite, and paratacamite. An oxidation product of other copper minerals...Atacamite, paratacamite, gypsum, alunite (Chuquicamata, Chile); atacamite, zincian paratacamite, caracolite...e, boleite (Sierra Gorda district, Chile). Distribution: In Chile, from Chuquicamata, and in the Sierra
Report (issue)
Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Inca de Oro mine, Copiapó, Chile. 5.48 (100), 5.03 (70), 2.278 (69), 1.6060...H2 O 16.55 12.69 Total 100.07 (1) Collahurasi, Chile. (2) Boleo, Mexico. (3) Cu2 Cl(OH)3 . Polymorphism...Polymorphous with botallackite, clinoatacamite, and paratacamite. Occurrence: An oxidation product of other...chrysocolla, paratacamite, Distribution: In small amounts from many copper deposits worldwide. In Chile, originally...originally from an undefined locality in the Atacama Desert; now known from many places, as at Copiapó
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...polymorphism with botallackite, clinoatacamite, and paratacamite. Pseudomorphs of malachite and chrysocolla after...instrumentation from the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine at Balmat, New York, and in association with granophyllite...Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey, and the Wheatley mine near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The copper mines
Catalog/List
mass. ~x2x2" , fL?-:O 5 . ARGENTI TE . Himmelfurst Mine , Fre iberg, Saxony , Germal)Y . Lustr ous grey...Quartz. 4x?ix1i", £24.("') 7. ARSENOPYRITE. Carrock Mine , Caldbeck , Cumberland. Bright silvery flat crystals...matrix. 2x1;:X1i" , £ 2,75p 8. ATACAMITE. Remolinos, Atacama , Chile . Bright dark green sharp crystals to...matrix. 2x1ix1i" , £18 . 00 9. AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine, Haysen , Arizona , U.S.A. TUrquoise coloured crystal... 5tx5t" , £140.00 12. BARYTOCALCITE. Nentsberry Mine , Alston Hoor , Cumberl and. Lustrous transparent
Journal (issue)
Australian Museum, Sydney • Antleriet van de Jomac mine, Utah • En veel MKA- en ander nieuws… Mineralogische...antleriet met carbonaatcyanotrichiet van de Jomac mine, Utah, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt...cerussiet-kristallen van de Proprietary Block 14 mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Specimen...anhydrous amphibole from the Kajlidongri manganese mine, Jhabua District, madhya Pradesh, India 428-440...186-187 New York mining 188-193 Autunite, Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington 194-196 Orpiment from
Book (volume)
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...England. Found in large amounts at many places in Chile, as at Caracoles in Antofagasta, the Huantajaya...district in Tarapaca, and especially Chanarcillo in Atacama; bromian varieties are found at many of the localities...Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially
Book
in chlorine-rich environments (especially in acid mine waters; Schwertmann and Cornell, 2000). It is named...named after its type locality at Akagané mine (Iwate Prefecture, Japan), where Nambu discovered it in...Italy). The type locality for alacranite is in Chile at Alacran, Pampa Larga, where it was discovered...Sonora, Mexico and has also been found in the Tsumeb Mine of Otavi, Namibia and in the Altai Mountains in...Spain probably derives from the existence of a tin mine in Spain that had been in operation since antiquity
Book (edition)
in chlorine-rich environments (especially in acid mine waters; Schwertmann and Cornell, 2000). It is named...named after its type locality at Akagané mine (Iwate Prefecture, Japan), where Nambu discovered it in...Italy). The type locality for alacranite is in Chile at Alacran, Pampa Larga, where it was discovered...Sonora, Mexico and has also been found in the Tsumeb Mine of Otavi, Namibia and in the Altai Mountains in...Spain probably derives from the existence of a tin mine in Spain that had been in operation since antiquity
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)...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...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION
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CO3)4.0-6H2O, from a lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan province, Afghanistan. The powder diagram...Greenish-blue hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarhro,* Ouazazate,* Morocco, have the composition...270. Natural /1-FeOOH, occurring at the Akagane mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan, and named from the locality...1931. Bol. Minero Soc. Nac. Mineria, Santiago de Chile, vol. 43 (ano 47), p. 433; Zeits. Prakt. Geol.,...massive, occurring in large amount near Salamanca, Chile. Named from the chemical composition. [Evidently
Book (edition)
gives the indices 221 for the face. To deter 192. mine, by plotting, the axial ratio of an orthorhombic... PART IV. DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY It is the province of De506. Scope of Descriptive Mineralogy. scriptive...black diamond (H. = 9) in the meteorite of Carcote, Chile; in the meteoric iron of Canon Diablo, Ariz. India...Bahia, etc. region was that near Diamantina in the province of Minas Geraes; The discovery of diamonds in...character to those near Kimberley, are the Jagersfontein mine in Orange Free State and the Premier, near Pretoria
Book (edition)
44. c 1 3 .50 A. A natural occurrence at a coal mine in the (TL) Lvov-Volynsk basin, USSR. Achates. syn...spec. from Durango. Mexico]. (TL) Chaiiarcillo. Chile. Named for M. Adam. Syn. Adamine. Var. Cuproadamite...09. c 7.76 A . Z=2 [PDF 27-620]. (TL) San Carlos mine. Guanajuato. Mexico. Named for S. Aguilar. Agustitc...PDF 34- 1 266 on synth. material]. (TL) Akaganc mine. Iwate Pref., Japan. Named for locality. 9 Akalidavyne...found by A.H. Clark at (TL) Alacran. Pampa L1rga. Chile. Then at the caldera of Uzon volcano. Kamchatka
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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
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Md Cover photo: the 180 fathom level of East Pool mine, Illogan, Cornwall, in 1893, by John Charles Burrow...producing the specimens for fear of being found out by mine management, and dealers would carefully guard their...is whether it would be wise in stating the exact mine yet until good examples are secured. I would call...from Wheal Basset, lllogan and from Old Gunnislake mine, Calstock though totally dissimilar in character...crystals of chalcocite from St Ives Consols Mine, Lelant and Levant Mine, St Just though dissimilar in habit
 
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