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Paratacamite from
Herminia Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Paratacamite
Formula:Cu3(Cu,Zn)(OH)6Cl2
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Atacamite
Caracolite
Schwartzembergite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Paratacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Herminia Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:68361
Long-form Identifier:1:3:68361:8
GUID (UUID V4):e5cb78ca-e034-4f3f-9f89-6f7207b7afd8
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
β = 90◦ Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Beatriz mine, Chile. (ICDD 25-706). 2.927 (100), 1.906 (56), 3.55...18 1.84 11.52 4.39 0.99 100.00 (1) Beatriz mine, Chile; partial analysis of impure material; composition...(Beatriz mine, Chile); atacamite, boleite, osarizawaite–beaverite, paratacamite (Herminia mine, Chile). Distribution:...From the Beatriz, Herminia, Santa Ana, and San Rafael mines, Sierra Gorda district, southwest of Calama...Calama, Antofagasta, Chile. In the Auguste-Victoria mine, Marl-Hüls, Ruhr Valley, North Rhine-Westphalia
Report (issue)
Paratacamite Cu2 Cl(OH)3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point...041(6) Z = 24 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sierra Gorda [district], Chile; almost identical to clinoatacamite...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...boleite (Sierra Gorda district, Chile). Distribution: In Chile, from the Generosa and Herminia mines, Sierra
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
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...described material came from the Herminia and Generosa mines at Sierra Gorda, Chile, and another occurrence is...is mentioned at the Bolaco mine, San Cristobal, Chile. Paratacamite was later said by Ungemach 3 on the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu3Zn(OH)6Cl2, a new species, and the definition of paratacamite R. S. W. BRAITHWAITE1, K. MEREITER2, W. H. PAAR3...site is substituted by e.g. Zn, thus giving paratacamite; the Zn is essential for stability and forms...been characterized using natural specimens from Chile and Iran and is named herbertsmithite. The other...been, should be named species. Clinoatacamite, paratacamite and herbertsmithite have rather similar X-ray...distinguished by infrared spectroscopy. Zn-stabilized paratacamite forms blue-green crystals of rhombohedral habit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magazine, December 2013, Vol. 77(8), pp. 3113–3124 Paratacamite-(Mg), Cu3(Mg,Cu)Cl2(OH)6; a new substituted...substituted basic copper chloride mineral from Camerones, Chile A. R. KAMPF1,*, M. J. SCIBERRAS2, P. LEVERETT2,...San Agustin 4045, La Serena, Chile Los Algarrobos 2986, Iquique, Chile [Received 14 July 2013; Accepted...ABSTRACT Paratacamite-(Mg) (IMA 2013-014), Cu3(Mg,Cu)Cl2(OH)6, is the new Mg-analogue of paratacamite. It...village of Cuya in the Camarones Valley, Arica Province, Chile. The mineral is a supergene secondary phase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
170 Paratacamite, a new oxychloride of copper. By O. F. HEaBEaT S ~ r , M.A., F.G.S. With a chemical...OXYCHLORIDE OlV COPPER. 171 The Herminia mine and the Generosa mine, Sierra Gorda, Chili, are the localities...conjunction with native gold, comes from the Bolaco mine, San CristSbal, Chili. The matrices are more or...less decomposed, and one specimen in Fig. 1. Paratacamite. Twinned crystal : Rhombohedral type. particular...from this district usually show the form f Y / Fig. 2. Fig. 3. e~ ./ Fig. 4. Paratacamite. Fig.
Journal (issue)
DeMark Malachite pseudomorphs from the Sir Dominick mine, Arkaroola, South Australia ......................Osarizawaite-beaverite intergrowths from Sierra Gorda, Chile ..........................101 by W. H. Paar...Tucson, Arizona 85740 COVER: GOLD from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. This specimen, about...geologically and culturally, are not the center of metal mining that they once were, and are cer­ tainly not as...NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111 he Red Cloud mining d, situated in the Gal­ linas Mountains o f central
Book (edition)
Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the...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
Journal (issue)
Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...the day that open-pit mining would reveal its expected buried treasures. Mining by Union Carbide for vanadium...a lifetime. There was always hope that renewed mining would hit the mineral bonanza but now that hope...Colorado Mining History By Arthur E. Smith Jr., a listing of more than 740 books on Colorado Mining History;
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 (volume)
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...amounts at many places in Chile, as at Caracoles in Antofagasta, the Huantajaya district in Tarapaca, and especially
Book (edition)
British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity...Trinity Co., Michigan Bluff district, Placer Co., in AK, placers at Fairbanks, Iditarod, and Nome, and quartz
 
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