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Dolomite from
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:617613
Long-form Identifier:1:3:617613:6
GUID (UUID V4):9d64613a-feb6-4091-9cb7-0653aab815e1
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
79.3km (49.3 miles) San Francisco Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
91.6km (56.9 miles) Cerro Pabellón Geothermal System, Ollagüe, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
97.4km (60.5 miles) Mina de Chulacao, Cordillera de la Sal, San Pedro de Atacama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...and CopperGold Deposits at Los Pelambres, Central Chile José Perelló, Richard H. Sillitoe, Constantino...History of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest Known...Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposits of the Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida...Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern Chile Geology of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGY OF THREE SULPHATE DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN CHILE* Moss' Menr C. BaNov, HaraardUniaersity,Combri'd'ge...of Chuquicamata, euerena, and Alcaparrosa, three sulphate deposits near calama, in Northern chile. The...of these minerals are known only from northern chile and twelve are known only from these three deposits...study of the mineralogy of Chuquicamata, euetena and. Alcaparrosa in Northern chile forms the basis of this...this paper. The writer worked for five years at Chuquicamata and had ample opportunity to study the deposits
Catalog/List
FLUORITE, SPHALERITE, BARYTE, Rosiclare Level, Minerva Mine No1, Cavein-Rock, Southern Illinois, USA. Cubes...4 KROHNKITE. (Rare+), Chuquicamata deposit, north of Calama, Antofagasta, Chile. (Dana Locale). Also ex...£56 5 DIABOLEITE, (Rare+), / Mammoth St Anthony Mine, nger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA. Also with Anglesite...~ 8 NATIVE ANTIMONY, Tom Moore Mine, Erskine Creek Mining District, Kern Co., California, USA. 79.1grams...1grams. 53x31 x23mm £42 9 BORNITE, DOLOMITE, BARITE, Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Ex Fersman Mineralogical
Journal (issue)
Arlesheim, Switzerland Articles Collector’s diary: Chuquicamata and the Nitrate Pampa ........................in Redfield, Iowa, to begin the long journey to Chile. The diary o f his three-month expedition in search...Smithsonian makes interesting reading. O Traveling to Chile in 1935 was a major undertaking, beginning with...—minerals that he would most likely encounter in Chile —and to obtain his passport and Chilean visa. From...Tocopilla, Chile. The voyage took from July 27 to August 10. The entire collecting trip in Chile lasted from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in magmatic arc settings. At the regional and district scales, the occurrence of many deposits in belts...central Chile; A.J. Wilson, writ. commun., 2009) and Mo (2.5 Mt: El Teniente, central Chile; Camus, 2003)...Toquepala & Cuajone Los Pelambres Los BroncesRío Blanco El Teniente Mamut Grasberg-Ertsberg Ok Tedi Cerro...Collahuasi dist. Bau Batu Hijau El Abra Cabang Kiri Chuquicamata dist. Koloula Frieda River dist...dist.(Nena) Wafi-Golpu Gaby El Salvador Potrerillos Marte & Caspiche Taca Taca Bajo Bajo de la Alumbrera
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reported from the now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine....occurs sparingly in ores of the Tucson mine in the Leadville district of Lake County, Colorado (Eckel 1997)...identified widely throughout the Warren mining district but always in small amounts (Palache and Merwin...other mines in the Pyramid district, also north of Reno. In the latter district, chalcophyllite occurs with...chalcophyllite microcrystals is the 3 Metals mine in the Weepah district of Esmeralda County. Utah boosts two
Journal (issue)
Feature articles Kammererite from the Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglari, Turkey .............................J. F. Poullen Famous Mineral Localities: Chuquicamata, Chile ........... 321 by Robert B. Cook Departments...Record Inc. COVER: KAMMERERITE from the Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglari, Turkey. The crystals, from the collection...(Columbiana, Alabama). The owner o f the fine Old Yuma mine vanadinite pictured on page 195 is Ray DeMark; Ray...y 270 W est n e a r A n im al W o n d erlan d . T el. 501-767-4800 Hot Springs, Arkansas The M ineralogical
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Book
................. 61 , The Mankayan Mineral District, .Luzon Philippines. Artemio F Disini, Bruce M...Radomiro Tomic Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile. Patricio Cuadra and Francisco Cam us.............Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit,Catamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina. Part 1 : Exploration...Rosario Copper Porphyry Deposits, CoUahuasi District Chile. Claudio Bisso B, Manuel Durdn andAquiles Gonzales...a deposit, but rather the engineering ability to mine on a large scale at low cost, and simultaneously
Book (volume)
Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...and out-of-plane (ν2) vibrations of calcite- and dolomite-group carbonates (Ca,Mn,Mg,Fe) (CO3) with respect...rhodochrosite (2), siderite (3), magnesite (4), dolomite (5), ankerite (6) and kutnohorite (7) Fig. 1...Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless
Journal (issue)
RECORD 39(5), 10.08 355-367 The Königskrone topaz mine, Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany 373-381 Olmiite...from the Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa 385-396 An appraisal...Treasure Chest pockets, Jacksons Crossroads Amethyst mine, Wiles Co., Georgia  NAUTILUS INFO 33(09), 12...Australië en goud uit de Alpen [Georges Claeys]  Province, NE Brazil 1131-1158 The phosphate mineralization...magnesiotaaffeite as replacement products of spinel in dolomite marble from Stubenberg, Styria, Austria. 1317-1322
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu ENARGITE Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County, Colorado Are all things...the north orebody of the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County, Colorado. Specimen...sedimentary-hosted lead-zinc deposits of the Tri-State district in the United States. It is known to replace pyrite...Frondel 1944). The copper arsenates of the Tintic district, Utah, and of Tsumeb, Namibia, result from the...the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County (fig. 1). The Longfellow mine was discovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
soon progressed to shallow depth, resulting in a mine. The numbers of mines and intensity of ACCEPTED...colonialism, modern economic booms (Belich, 2009). Active mine numbers and sizes skyrocketed during two World Wars...rapidly growing number of mineral discoveries and mine establishment was partly driven by the discovery...of conquests and non-military acquisitions. But mine importance and fame did not necessarily correspond...in the world ocean interpreted as a single VMS district. What both groupings of natural metal occurrences
Book (volume)
Alter. Anhydrite, gypsum, polyhalite, celestite, dolomite, quartz, hematite, and pyrite have been found...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...amounts at many places in Chile, as at Caracoles in Antofagasta, the Huantajaya district in Tarapaca, and especially
Report (issue)
Copper Mountain (British Columbia, Canada) and El Teniente (Chile) porphyry copper deposits..................porphyry copper deposits include El Teniente and El Salvador in Chile, Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina...regional faults such as near deposits in northern Chile (Behn and others, 2001; Gow and Walshe, 2005), central...by as much as about 100°C for samples from El Teniente, Chile. When binned in 10°C intervals, the median...reported homogenization temperature range in the El Teniente data is 380°–390°C. At Bajo de la Alumbrera
Catalog/List
arsenopyrite. 3x2~x1t", £13.00 . 5. Hingston Down Mine: nr. C~llington, Cornwall. Rich apple green micro...CABRERITE (Magnesian Annabergite). Laurium, Attica district, Greece. Light green small sharp crystals lining...Specimen B, 1~1fx1", £3.2Sp 17. CASSITERITE. Seal Hole Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall. Bright deep brownish sharp... 1-tx1tx1" , £12.00 1B. CASSITERITE. Blue Hills Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall. Rich heavy light brown mass...matrix. 2-tx2tx2~", £3.7Sp 21. CERUSSITE. Redgill Mine, Caldbeck, Cumberland. Lustrous creamy-~~ite ljackstraw
Catalog/List
4~x4x2-t". £17.00. ATACAMITE. Copiapo, Atacama District, Chile. Specimen A - Bright, deep green, radiated...are from a new find in this famous old mining district. , AUTUNITE. Bessinesi Haute-Vienne, France. Rich... 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. -2BARYTES. Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, westmoreland. ~ single glassy transparent...pinkish Granite. ltxltxlt"- £2.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne Cornwall. A pure, purply, tarnished metallic...the higher workings of the Mine. 2xltxlt". £1.50. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Select
Book (edition)
260 Petaca District, New Mexico 266 11 IGNEOUS METAMORPHIC DEPOSITS 272 Central District, New Mexico...Mexico 276 Iron Springs District, Utah 283 12 HYPOTHERMAL DEPOSITS 293 Morro Velho, Brazil 297 Broken...Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 319 Magma Mine, Arizona 325 Chuquicamata, Chile 333 14 EPITHERMAL DEPOSITS 344...346 Almaden, Spain 349 Pachuca-Real del Monte District, Mexico 15 TELETHERMAL DEPOSITS 354 362 Colorado...370 16 XENOTHERMAL DEPOSITS 381 Ikuno-Akenobe District, Japan Potosi, Bolivia 387 382 17 SEDIMENTARY
Catalog/List
Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...Auction 3 52001 HEMATITE Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy If there was ever a specimen that...POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics has been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magnetite, plagioelase, hercynite, 513 Glomsrudkollen mine, Modum, ktenasite, unidentified CuZn-A1 sulphate...4o6; datolite, apophyllite, 4IO Yorkshire Boulby mine, Loftus, Saltburn, iron-boracite, 404 Hepworth Iron...287, M4 ISLE OF MAN Lough Skillicore, calcite, dolomite, illite, dickite, I45 CHANNEL ISLES Jersey, diorites...Mtn., kerolite, 443 Greece ( 'E~t~tag ) Kamariza mine, Laurium, ktenasite, 65 ASIA Israel Menhamiya...piemontite, spessartine, 537 India Nausahi, Keonjhar District, Orissa, chromian dravite, 408 Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
manganese-oxide-coated friable quartz rock. Birnessite, halite, dolomite, taranakite, todorokite, apatire, and malachite...country rock is a partially silicified Proterozoic dolomite intruded by dolerite dykes. A small chalcopyrite...cavities or as crusts are birnessite, halite, dolomite, taranakite, todorokite, apatite, and malachite...Sampleite was originally described from Chuquicamata, Chile by Hurlbut (I942) associated with gypsum...limonite. It is also reported from Mantos Blancos, Chile, with atacamite, chrysocolla, copper carbonate,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
....64,66 Barksdale, J. D. Silicified wood in dolomite. .. ..181,699 Bavenite, ne\\roccurrenceof. (Claringbull)...M. H. Occurrence of riebeckite in Michipicoten district, Ontario 382 F r o n d e lC , .. ... 185 Fuller...geologicsignificance.. Hexahedritemeteoritesfrom Chile, chemical study of. (Hender- 194 I87 677 729 ...minerals from Chuquicamata, ......188,629 Chile...... Occurrenceof antlerite at 301 Chuquicamata with Palache...Salesite, a new mineral from Chuquica388 mata, Chile. Jefterson,M. E. Optical measure729 rnents on micas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE BIG GOSSAN SKARN, ERTSBERG-GRASBERG MINING DISTRICT, INDONESIA S. Wafforn,1,† S. Seman,2 J. R. Kyle...located in the prolific Ertsberg-Grasberg mining district, on the island of New Guinea in eastern Indonesia...Andradite garnet U-Pb ages are compatible with district-wide zircon U-Pb geochronology and a single 2...last ore-forming events in the Ertsberg-Grasberg district. This study demonstrates that andradite garnet...episodic over millions of years (e.g., Chuquicamata, Ballard et al., 2001; El Teniente, Maksaev et al., 2004;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porphyry Copper Center in the Superior (Pioneer) District, Arizona SCOTT L. MANSKE† Independent Consultant...has been discovered in the Superior (Pioneer) district of east-central Arizona, lying under thick Tertiary...lies within the well-known Superior (Pioneer) district, a base and precious metals camp that has been...approximately 1.5 km south-southeast of shaft 9 of the Magma mine and 120 km north of the city of Tucson, Arizona...consider to be a mature, well-explored metallogenic province in which the last major copper find (Santa Cruz;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Kalamazooportionof the San Manuel-Kalamazoo district,Pinal County,Arizona, has presentedan unparalleledopportunityfor...drilling(Lowell,1968) of the Kalamazoo portionof the district and in exploitationof the San Manuel portion....cp-gal,sl Au-Ag' VEINS VEINS PERIPHERAL cp-gel-el Au-Ag VEINLETS DISSEMII• ED DISS '4- MICRO VLTS...wolframite zo zoisite dck dickite dg .digenite dol 'dolomite Arg ArgiI I ic Phyl Phyllic Pot Potassic Prop.............................. Chuquicamata metaseds& volcs Chuquicamata Ear N & N l0 I= fits narrow
 
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