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Orpiment from
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón District, Oyón Province, Lima, Peru


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Orpiment
Formula:As2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orpiment data
Locality Data:Click here to view Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón District, Oyón Province, Lima, Peru
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:20383
Long-form Identifier:1:3:20383:8
GUID (UUID V4):12ff430e-469c-484d-8cb5-bb14bc21f35d
Nearest other occurrences of Orpiment
52.0km (32.3 miles) Atacocha Mine, Atacocha mining district, Cerro de Pasco, Pasco province, Pasco, Peru
References
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TSKnerals of i'eru ! Indian miner, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 1869 (Simonin, 1869). J3E(mes and J3E(merals...crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection; Jeff Scovil............................... History of Peru Mining in Peru The Mineral Specimen Business C o l l e c....................... Quiruvilca district, Santiago de Chuco province, department of La Libertad PASTO.......................... Pasto Bueno district, Pallasca province, department of Ancash R a u r a -H u
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Homologous Series from the Uchucchacua Base-Metal Deposit, Oyon District, Peru Luca Bindi 1, * 1 2 3 *...discovered in the Uchucchacua base-metal deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru, as very rare...crystals, up to 100 µm in length, associated with orpiment, tennantite/tetrahedrite, menchettiite, and other...the Oyon district, Lima Department, Peru, the district where the type locality (Uchucchacua mine) is located...sulfosalt; copper; antimony; arsenic; Oyon district; Lima department; Peru 1. Introduction Oyonite has been found
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Ag-Mn-Pb-ZnVein, Replacement,and SkarnDepositsof Uchucchacua,Peru: Studiesof Structure, Mineralogy, Metal Zoning...Buenaventura, S.A., Carlos Villaran 790, Santa Catalina, Lima 13, Perd AND ALISTAIR N. BAXTER Schoolof Earth...BiglandStreet,LondonE1 2NG, UnitedKingdom Abstract Uchucchacua is anAg-Mn-Pb-Znvein,replacement, andskarnmineraldistrictin...andskarnmineraldistrictin the central Andesof Peru. Host rocksare massiveJumashaFormationshelflimestonesof Turonianage...ofmostveinsandinvolves thegrowthofMnhydroxides, goethite,orpiment,marcasite,cerussite,andsiderite. Distributionpatternsof
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. 3.29 (100), 2.821...24.17 100.00 (1) Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru; average of 5 electron...calcium silicates in carbonate rock. Association: Orpiment, tennantite-tetrahedrite, menchettiite, other...From the Nivel 890, Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. Name: For the region...region that produced the first specimen, Oyon district, Peru. Type Material: National History Museum, University
Catalog/List
1/18/21 11:02 AM Quartz and Hematite Jinlong Iron Mine, Longchuan, Guangdong, China 7.5 cm tall x 11 cm...AM Malachite on Quartz with Shattuckite Omaue Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia 7.6 cm tall... Aquamarine with Schorl and Quartz Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 7.6 cm tall x 15.2...1/18/21 11:02 AM Scheelite on Muscovite Pingwu Beryl Mine, Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan,...example, mined 25 years ago from the Pingwu Beryl Mine, is one of the most remarkable of the species. Scheelite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lillianite series from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru Luca Bindi,1 Frank N. Keutsch...from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. It occurs...grains up to 200 µm across, closely associated with orpiment, tennantite/tetrahedrite, other unnamed minerals...diffraction data; ramdohrite; lillianite; Uchucchacua deposit, Peru Introduction The building principles...coming from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Lima Department, Peru. The mineral, ideally
Report (issue)
24.65 100.00 (1) Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru; average of 11 electron...and dacitic volcanic intrusions. Association: Orpiment, stibnite, quartz, tennantite/tetrahedrite, manganoquadratite...Socorro section, Uchucchacua deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. Name: Honors Dr...Peruvian minerals and specifically species of the Uchucchacua deposit. Type Material: Natural History Museum...sartorite homologous series from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Peru. Eur. J. Mineral., 30(6), 1155-1162
Report (issue)
22.93 9.41 24.15 . 100.00 (1) Uchucchacua deposit, Catajambo, Peru; average of 12 electron microprobe...replacement, and contact metamorphic mineral district. Association: Orpiment, tennantite/tetrahedrite, quartz, calcite...Level 890, Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. Name: Honors...lillianite series from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru. Amer. Mineral., 97, 440-446
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rises to 6,272 meters (20,577 feet), Huascaran in Peru is 6,768 meters (22,205 feet), Tocorpuri on the...mining and smelting oxidized copper ores in central Peru about 1500 B.C. By the time the Spanish conquered...have been spectacular silver specimens from Uchucchacua, Peru; emeralds from Muzo, Colombia; pink fluorite...fluorite and huge pyrites from Huanzala, Peru; 25-cm Volume 78, JanuaryFebruary 2003 13 Downloaded by [University...Bolivia; and fantastic pyrargyrites from Hauncavelica, Peru. The combination of awe-inspiring topography, mining
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23:45 31 December 2014 Realgar Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Hunan Province, China T here has been a dramatic...geochemistries and geologic occurrences are quite varied. Orpiment (As2S3) has already been covered in this column...as a product of coal-mine fires. Commonly associated minerals include orpiment, stibnite, a variety of...Paris, Oxford County, Maine, and the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton County, New Hampshire. It occurred with...attractive groups of crystals from the Getchell mine, Humboldt County, where individual crystals to 12
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2011.075.5.2549 Kirovskii mine, Mount Kukisvumchorr, Khibiny alkaline massif, Kola...AgMnAsS3 Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru Paola Bonazzi...Pb5Mn3Ag2Sb6As4S24 Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru Luca Bindi*...Anorpiment As2S3 Palomo mine, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru Anthony R. Kampf*, Robert...Gerald V. Gibbs *E-mail: akampf@nhm.org Dimorph of orpiment Triclinic: P1; structure determined a = 5.7577(2)
Journal (issue)
.89 by W. E. Wilson The Palomo mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .95 by J. Hyršl Pseudomorphs from Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....White Ca-Mg-Fe-rich rhodonite from the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil . ....BaCa2(CO3)2F2, a new mineral species from the Kirovskii mine, Khibiny, Kola Peninsula, Russia . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, atanga, Republic of the Congo. Rob Lavinsky (The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sartorite homologous series from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Peru. European Journal of Mineralogy...section the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. It is an...and alabandite coexist with calcite and pyrite. Orpiment, marcasite and siderite along with Mn oxides,...and now hyršlite found in close association with orpiment, stibnite, quartz, tennantite/tetrahedrite, manganoquadratite...expert on Peruvian minerals, in particular on the Uchucchacua deposit. The holotype is deposited in the reference
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Einigkeit) shaft, Jáchymov (Sankt Joachimsthal) ore district, western Bohemia, Czech Republic (50°22′ 21.136″N...of Otto Mountain, 0.4 miles northwest of the Aga mine. The only material available is from a single 1...discovered at the old dumps of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah, U.S.A. It was found in...MINERAL NAMES common hypergene Te mineral at this mine. Eurekadumpite occurs in small cavities and in fractures...oxides. Other tellurates and tellurites found at the mine are: jensenite, leisingite, frankhawthorneite, juabite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
include the thallium sulphate, dorallcharite. The ‘orpiment’ quoted by Mantienne (1974) appears to be wakabayashilite...(Bindi et al., 2011), from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit in Peru, occurs also as anhedral to subhedral...subhedral black grains. It is associated with orpiment, tennantite/tetrahedrite, sulfosalts and calcite...TlPb3(Sb7As2)9S18, a new mineral species from the Monte Arsiccio mine: occurrence and crystal structure. Can. Mineral...lillianite series from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru. Am. Mineral., 97, 440–446
Journal (issue)
San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals...minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing beautiful specimens of finely crystalline...Phillip have also developed a surface exposure at the mine to produce some very nice, single, sceptered quartz...recent finds . The material included the well-known orpiment crystals in sizes to IO mm, some fascinating pseudomorphs...ci rc ulatio n for some years. Sulfides are real mine rals and I still regret no t buy ing a good specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the south part of the Koashva open pit (Vostochnyi mine), Mt. Koashva, Khibiny alkaline complex in Kola...andorite homeotypic series from the Monte Arsiccio mine, Apuan Alps. European Journal of Mineralogy, 30...Arsiccio mine, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy (43°58′16″N, 10°17′05″E). The Monte Arsiccio mine exploited...knowledge of magmatic activity in the Tuscan Magmatic Province and the related ore deposits, in particular, the...arsenic analogue of medaite, from the Molinello mine, Liguria, Italy: occurrence and crystal structure
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Teil IV• Rother Kopf/Vulkaneifel • Neue Funde in Peru 2010-2014 • Lava CapThundereggs von Deming, New...Showreport 12 Über die neuen Mineralienfunde in Peru 26 Einschlüsse in Quarz (4) 54 Die „vergessenen...Titelbi ld zeigt Pyrit-Kristalle van der Pucarrajo Mine in Peru . Höhe der Stufe 4 cm . Sammlung K. & M. Proctor...2014 von der Chino Mine in New Mexiko (5150 Bench, East Pit, Townsite Island, Chino Mine bei Bayard, Grant...der bekannten Pyromorphit-Fundstelle der Yangshuo Mine im Kreis Yangshuo der Provinz Guangxi Zhuang A.R
Catalog/List
in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...Kevin Ward Minera! on QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly...years to find a specimen rhombs rhombs Climax Mine, ot rhodochrosite $50 OOU 60.000 Ex The ... 8 nn ae from the \ slight ¢ « nax 1g Mine : The Kevin Ward Mineral Exceptional German...labeled base. From Freiberg, 12.7 cm Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany; by the consignor
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p. 258 COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to...DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals 14 Longview...and Other Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les...Presmyk and Tony Potucek The Mammoth-St. Anthony mine at Tiger has produced not only large amounts of...Frank Schultz staked the first claims in 1879. The mine began as several separate workings that ultimately
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Rivet quarry (in the area of Peyrebrune Pb–Zn–Ag mine, Tarn department, France), one of us (R. P.) discovered...veins of Peyrebrune ore deposit (crossed circle: mine buildings); 6. Quarry. 1. The deposits and their...240 m. A general review of the nearby Peyrebrune mine (history and exploitation) has been presented by...dolomite, siderite Sulfides A: galena, sphalerite. t: orpiment, marcasite, chalcopyrite Sulfosalts F: tetrahedrite-freibergite...Location of the Biò occurrences from Borgofranco mine district (reproduced from Ambrino et al., 2008). Veneziana
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Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans...early 1980s Rock began to concentrate on Brazil and Peru with occasional trips to Uruguay, Chile, and Colombia...Atacama Desert to collect Underground Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 1993. "RPG," Artigas, Uruguay
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(2006) and Deb and Thorpe 2004) surrounding the mine pit at Agucha. Holler et al. (1996) identified three... 186 Miner Deposita (2009) 44:183–204 Fig. 2 a Mine scale geological map around Rampura–Agucha ore deposit...(CuK α ), sphalerite (ZnK α ), galena (PbMα), orpiment (SbLα), Ag metal (AgLα), mimetite (AsLα), spessartine...China (Chang et al. 1987) and Uchucchacua polymetallic vein system, Peru (Petersen 1995). Jamesonite (Pb4FeSb6S14)...the Herja hydrothermal vein deposit, Baia Mare District. Geol Carpath 48:387–399 Craig JR, Vokes FM (1993)
Book
Homologous Series from the Uchucchacua Base-Metal Deposit, Oyon District, Peru Reprinted from: Minerals...lillianite homologous series from the Uchucchacua deposit in Oyon district, Peru [15]; and cerromojonite, CuPbBiSe3...selenide of the bournonite group from the El Dragón mine in Potosí, Bolivia [16]. Some new supergene minerals...homologous series from the Uchucchacua Base-Metal deposit, Oyon District, Peru. Minerals 2018, 8, 192. [CrossRef]...ordering in both A and B sites, from the Cleveland mine, Tasmania, Australia. Am. Mineral. 2010, 95, 736–740
 
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