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Apatite from
Potosí Mine, Barracanao (Baracoa), Moa-Baracoa District, Holguín Province, Cuba


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Potosí Mine, Barracanao (Baracoa), Moa-Baracoa District, Holguín Province, Cuba
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1290116
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1290116:4
GUID (UUID V4):dcda0a78-8c14-4ac6-b963-8be01a916bff
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
49.3km (30.7 miles) Sierra del Convento, Guantánamo Province, Cuba
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
differentiation of tholeiitic melts (Moa-Baracoa ophiolite, Cuba) Núria Pujol-Solà, Joaquín A. Proenza...differentiation of tholeiitic melts (Moa-Baracoa ophiolite, Cuba), LITHOS(2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/...differentiation of tholeiitic melts (Moa-Baracoa ophiolite, Cuba) Núria Pujol-Solà1 , Joaquín A. Proenza1...in the Potosí chromitite bodies located in the Moho Transition Zone of the Cretaceous Moa-Baracoa suprasubduction...suprasubduction zone ophiolite (eastern Cuba). Such HFSE-bearing phases were found in the interaction zone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the largest magnetite deposit in a series of apatite and sulphide-free magnetite orebodies hosted in...(Unst), UK ophiolite [13], and the Moa-Baracoa ophiolitic massif (Cuba) [14]. On the basis of magmatic texture...chalcopyrite, bornite, and in lesser amounts abandoned mine, at the Kondro Hill, very close to the village of...Alps, Italy), which is the largest in a series of apatite and sulphide-free magnetite orebodies that are...olivine–norite dikes in the Potosí Mine (Moa-Baracoa ophiolitic massif, eastern Cuba). Miner. Depos. 2001,
Book (edition)
orange Chromite Zincochromite Gaudefroyite Apatite - (CaF) Willemite Ludwigite reddish brown to... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample
Report (issue)
production at two important mines in Bolivia, Porco and Potosí, are described. Petersen’s field work indicates...use today. Native copper from the Cerro de Pasco Mine, a shell used as a palette for mixing cinnabar-based...in Latin America. The pleasure has certainly been mine. I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation...Adán, Casma; Mina de Escoruro, Santa Isabel de Potosí, Bolivia. Anthracite, (C). Black, vitreous, submetallic...names, quillimsa or sansa in Quechua (González Holguín, 1608), wood that burns without flame (Middendorf
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inclusions (including quartz, orthoclase, muscovite and apatite), 18O (6.16 to 12.67 ‰) and εHf(t) (-11.9 to 1...Hauterivian times (e.g., at ca. 135 Ma in central Cuba; Rojas-Agramonte et al., 2011; between 136- NU...Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and eastern Cuba segments of the island-arc, arc magmatism would...volcanic rocks of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP, which comprises the plume-related Caribbean-Colombian...represented in the Central Cordillera geological province of the Dominican Republic (and its extension to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
states. Examples include the Cove mine, Lander County, the Bald Mountain mine, White Pine County, and the famous...famous Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada; with freibergite and andorite at the Bear Basin mines...sphalerite at the Young American mine, Stevens County, Washington; the Old Dowdy mine, Gunnison County, Colorado...löllingite, smaltite, and various sulfides; the Merrimac mine, Doña Ana County, Figure 1. A 2.5-cm-high stannite...arsenopyrite. This 13-cm specimen is from the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan, China. Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as pyromorphite, mimetite, other members of the apatite group, and a very long list of additional minerals...nothing more than impure beds of one or more of the apatite species, having formed in an ancient, restricted...as crandallite, variscite, turquoise, and the apatite group. Wavellite is a well-known mineral in the...specimens were once found at General Trimble’s iron mine at East Whiteland, Chester County, where it occurred...collected from the vicinity of an old manganese mine at White Rocks in Cumberland County where it occurs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Autónoma de México, Carretera Querétaro-San Luis Potosí km 15.5, Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Apartado Postal...age for the La Guitarra deposit, Temascaltepec district. From the latter, adularia from a barren stage...activity of the Sierra Madre Occidental volcanic province (Staude and Barton, 2001). The Sierra Madre Occidental...as the Sierra Madre del Sur Tertiary magmatic province (Morán-Zenteno et al., 1999). The time relation...México, Michoacán, Nayarit, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas. The oldest epithermal deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu-Au skarn deposits of the Santa María de la Paz district (Sierra del Fraile, Mexico) Siegfried Siesgesmund...Cu-Au skarn deposits of the Santa María de la Paz district (Sierra del Fraile, Mexico), Ore Geology Reviews...Cu-Au skarn deposits of the Santa María de la Paz district (Sierra del Fraile, Mexico) Siegfried Siesgesmund1...Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Av. Manuel Nava 5, 78240 San Luis Potosí, Mexico 3 División de Geociencias...San José 2055, Lomas 4° Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, Mexico 4 Department of Earth Sciences, University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Earth. In 2017, the Central Andes accounted for the mine production of around 39% of the world’s copper,...Haller and Fontboté 2009). Important iron oxide–apatite (IOA) deposits that consist mainly of magnetite...2016). The enigmatic Quaternary El Laco magnetite–apatite deposit (Chile) shares similarities with iron deposits...1 Mt Sn (>0.2%) −19.62, −65.75 Cerro Rico de Potosí, Bolivia Sn–Ag veins >60.000 t Ag (102 g/t) 1...examples are Chorolque and core of Cerro Rico de Potosí 3, 4 tour, cast, gn, sph, sulfosalts, py; in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
El Dragón Selenium Mineralization, Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia Günter Grundmann 1 and Hans-Jürgen...13], district of Hiaco de Charcas, Chayanta Province, and El Dragón, Antonio Quijarro Province, both...both in the Department of Potosí [14]. Virgen de Surumi is the type locality of ahlfeldite (Ni,Co)SeO3 ·2H2...occurrence. 2. Regional Geology The abandoned El Dragón mine (entrance and dump) is located at ~19◦ 490 23.90”...m above sea level, about 5 km east of the Porco mine, which is currently Bolivia’s most productive zinc
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
high-temperature (and low pH) mineralising fluids. District-scale mineralogical zonation suggests a thermal...temperatures from the central to the peripheral areas. A district-scale zonation has been also determined for δ34...2. Geology The Huanuni district (Oruro department, Pantaleón Dalence province) is located 275 km SE of...[21]. A similar dike also occurs at the Dolores mine, on regime [29,30]. Llallagua Formation consists...intercalated the western side The of the mining district, striking WSW–ENE and over m long, and smaller
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lincoln] at 19:55 09 April 2015 Apatite LOCALITIES Figure 1. Apatite, back row (from left) 7.06, 6.20...report on every locality that has ever produced apatite gemstones. 260 ROCKS & MINERALS Although no hard...localities are added where warranted. documented apatite gemstones in the GIA Museum’s collection are recorded...about parcels of “greenish blue to bluish green” apatite they had observed at the Tucson Show that year...with the name Paraíba, either labeled “Paraíba apatite” or simply as “Paraíba.” The same article (p. 161)
Report (issue)
North American plate margin in México. It is this province that is the subject of the paper by Ferrari et...for the first time, a comprehensive view of the province, including its structural and stratigraphic characteristics...of the magmatic and tectonic evolution of the province as well as a discussion of the age-old debate...The Mesa Central (Mexican Plateau) is a geologic province whose stratigraphy and structure are very different...propose the crustal structure of this geologic province, taking into account the tectonics of the oceanic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Argentina and is the easternmost metallogenic province of the central Andes (Ahlfeld, 1967; Turneaure...Rice, 1997), which makes Llallagua the largest tin mine of the western world. The bulk geochemical tin enrichment...dispersion) is on the order of 2 Mt Sn. The Cerro Rico de Potosí is the historically most important silver producer...producer of the world and became an important tin mine in the early twentieth century. The cumulated Ag production...Rico and the deposits of the Quechisla mining district with Chorolque, Tasna, and Chocaya (Sillitoe et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photos. September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado;...Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59 Apatite, nomenclature, 204–5...Connoisseur’s Choice, Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59; Calaverite...Exploration and Mining History of the de Linde Wavellite Mine, East Dug Hill Area, Near Avant, Garland County...Mineralogy Feldspar, New York, 253 Ferraris, C., New Apatite Nomenclature, 204–5 Fire opal, Turkey, 126 Fisher
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Antonio Lanzirotti, and Matthew Newville Zircon and apatite geochemical constraints on the formation of the...deposits related to andesitic magmatism (Khan Kandi district, NW Iran)—Ali Abedini, Mansour Rezaei Azizi, and...brine and redbed-derived fluid: Schwarzwald mining district, SW-Germany—Benjamin F. Walter, Jordan L. Jensen...volcanic-intrusive complex in the Zijinshan ore district, southeast China: Implications for different stages...country rocks in the Shangdan uranium mineralization district of North Qinling orogenic belt, China—Feng Yuan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals include trolleite, goyazite, variscite, and apatite. Farther south in North Carolina, dark blue, well-formed...Ryan-Purcley property. The Gearhardt, Staley, or Carolina mine deposit at Staley, Randolph County, North Carolina...also reported from the Piedmont Minerals Company mine at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina....occurrence at the American Progress mine, Bare Mountain district, Nye County, and from an undisclosed...lazulite-scorzalite series are well known from the Champion mine andalusite deposit in the White Mountains, Mono
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...SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Angarf-Sud pegmatite, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ region, Morocco. It occurs in...from the Biraya Fe-REE deposit, north of Irkutsk district, 145 km east of Bodaibo city, Russia. It is associated...Cu6BiSe4(Se2), a new mineral species from the El Dragón mine, Potosí, Bolivia, and its crystal structure. Canadian...at the El Dragón mine known for its selenium mineralization and located in province of Quijarro, Department...Department of Potosí, Bolivia. This new mineral species is named after the location where it was discovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe-oxides, pyrrhotite, pentlandite, galena, barite, apatite, and native gold. Intercumulus minerals are microcrystalline... with minor clinopyroxene, accessory olivine, apatite, magnetite and ilmenite, and rare sulfides (mainly...2012; Malehmir et al. 2012) is now accessible from mine reports (Geological Survey of Finland website 2016)...so-called regular ore (also referred to by Kevitsa’s mine geologist as the “normal ore”). It Genesis of...Almandine (Ti, Ca, Mg), kaersutite (Ni, Cr), and apatite (F, P, Cl), from the Smithsonian Institution and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Magnetite Zinc Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological...recent decades have come not from a New York iron mine but from one of its interesting zinc mines. One...fine specimen from the Zinc Corporation of America mine No. 4 at Balmat. Magnetite is one of many black...include chromite, ilmenite, ulvospinel, rutile, apatite, the common sulfides, and a wide variety of silicates...several stand out. The famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and
Thesis/Dissertation
and located at Oruro (one zeolite occurrence), Potosí (one diatomite and one montmorillonite occurrence)...aplicativa. Memorias XVIII Congreso Geológico Boliviano. Potosí - Bolivia, 2009, 7 pp. % Zeballos A, MachacaV...Micaya. Memorias XVIII Congreso Geológico Boliviano. Potosí - Bolivia, 2009, 5 pp. % Zeballos A, Weihed P...Charaña y Bella Vista (Departamentos de La Paz y Potosí) XX Congreso Geológico Boliviano. La Paz – Bolivia...nine other deposits at La Paz (four), Oruro (one), Potosí (two) and Santa Cruz (two) (Fig. 1). The results
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
America has produced some of the world’s finest apatite specimens, and there are many wellknown localities...best-known specimen from anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly...gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite...faceted, they produce some of the most sought apatite gemstones (see Mauthner and Ottaway 2015, this...deposit characteristic minerals, sometimes including apatite, in these clefts. This is how our Connoisseur’s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
system recorded by trace elements in quartz: Krupka district, eastern Krušné hory/Erzgebirge—Tereza Peterková...element mineralisation in the North Atlantic Igneous Province— Jordan J. Lindsay, Hannah S.R. Hughes, Dermot...mineralization in the High Arctic large igneous province, Nunavut, Canada—Derek H.C. Wilton, Benoit M....diversity in a hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example—Gregor Markl, Maximilian...the Cu-Au geochemical prospects in the Feizabad district, NW Iran—Reza Ghezelbash, Abbas Maghsoudi, Mehrdad
 
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