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Copiapite from
Santa Elena Mine, Quebrada Alcaparrosa, Calingasta, Calingasta Department, San Juan Province, Argentina


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copiapite
Formula:Fe2+Fe43+(SO4)6(OH)2 · 20H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Sarmientite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Botryogen27 photos of Copiapite associated with Botryogen at this locality.
Parabutlerite11 photos of Copiapite associated with Parabutlerite at this locality.
Butlerite6 photos of Copiapite associated with Butlerite at this locality.
Halotrichite5 photos of Copiapite associated with Halotrichite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copiapite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Santa Elena Mine, Quebrada Alcaparrosa, Calingasta, Calingasta Department, San Juan Province, Argentina
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:120259
Long-form Identifier:1:3:120259:5
GUID (UUID V4):aad0684e-de09-4b52-b41f-962be8e6c448
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
97◦ 390 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Santa Elena mine, Argentina. 9.29 (100), 4.64 (90), 4.26 (80), 3...35.19 21.84 Total 100.66 100.00 (1) Santa Elena mine, Argentina. (2) Fe2 (AsO4 )(SO4 )(OH) • 5H2 O. Occurrence:...veins in diabase. Association: Fibroferrite, copiapite, botryogen, szomolnokite, zincian melanterite...From the Santa Elena mine, Quebrada de La Alcaparrosa, between San Juan and Calingasta, San Juan Province...Province, Argentina. Name: To honor Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), former President of Argentina.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vélez Sarsfield 1611, (X5016GCA) Córdoba, Argentina Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona...Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, (5000) Córdoba, Argentina [Received 13 September 2013; Accepted 19 January...2O, from the type locality (Santa Elena mine, San Juan Province, Argentina), was solved and refined from...extracted between 1941 and 1974 (Angelelli, 1984). The mine is currently inactive. This deposit is hosted by...interleaved with Ordovician shales and limolites (Alcaparrosa Formation); diabase dykes cut the sedimentary
Report (issue)
71 Total 100.45 100.00 (1) Quebrada de La Alcaparrosa, Argentina. (2) NaMg2 Fe5 (SO4 )7 (OH)6 • 33H2...gypsum. Halotrichite, pickeringite, fibroferrite, copiapite, melanterite, epsomite, jarosite, Distribution:...Servette mine, Saint Marcel, Val d’Aosta, Piedmont, Italy. From the Santa Elena mine, Quebrada de La Alcaparrosa...Alcaparrosa, San Juan Province, Argentina. At Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier Co., Tennessee, USA. Name: In honor
Report (issue)
20.13 c = 7.22 Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Alcaparrosa, Chile. 4.99 (FFF), 3.11 (FFF), 5.83 (F), 3.60...23 (2) 38.96 39.06 21.98 Total 100.59 • (1) Alcaparrosa, Chile. (2) Fe(SO4 )(OH) 2H2 O. 100.00 SO3...by alteration of other sulfates. Association: Copiapite, cuprocopiapite, butlerite, jarosite, melanterite...and Alcaparrosa, near Cerritos Bayos, southwest of Calama, Antofagasta, Chile. In the Santa Elena mine...mine, Quebrada de La Alcaparrosa, San Juan Province, Argentina. In the USA, at the Dexter No. 7 mine, Calf
Report (issue)
28 9.64 32.53 Total 99.51 100.00 (1) Redington mine, California, USA. (2) MgFe(SO4 )2 (OH) • 7H2 O....pyrite, especially in arid climates. Association: Copiapite, amarantite, hohmannite, coquimbite, voltaite...Distribution: From Falun, Sweden. At the Rammelsberg mine, near Goslar, Harz Mountains, Germany. In Chile... and Alcaparrosa, near Cerritos Bayos, southwest of Calama. From the Santa Elena mine, Quebrada de La...La Alcaparrosa, San Juan Province, Argentina. In the USA, from the Redington mine, Knoxville, and at the
Report (issue)
Rhomboclase, halotrichite, fibroferrite, römerite, copiapite, voltaite, pyrite. Distribution: Widespread in...Czech Republic. From the Staszic mine, Rudki, Poland. In the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest...Gwent, Wales. At Quetena, west of Calama, and Alcaparrosa, near Cerritos Bayos, southwest of Calama, Antofagasta...Chile. From the Santa Elena mine, Quebrada de La Alcaparrosa, San Juan Province, Argentina. In the USA,... from the Tintic Standard mine, near Dividend, East Tintic district, Utah Co., Utah; at Bisbee, Cochise
Report (issue)
= 5.84–5.87 X-ray Powder Pattern: United Verde mine, Arizona, USA. 4.97 (FF), 3.15 (F), 3.59 (mF), 3... 101.46 100.00 38.96 21.97 (1) United Verde mine, Arizona, USA. (2) Fe(SO4 )(OH) • 2H2 O. Polymorphism...fumarolic conditions from mine fires. Association: Parabutlerite, copiapite, fibroferrite, other iron...Verde copper mine, Jerome, Yavapai Co., Arizona; at the Lone Star mine, La Bajada district, Santa Fe Co.,... New Mexico; in the Dexter No. 7 mine, Calf Mesa, San Rafael district, Emery Co., Utah; from near Cimarron
Report (issue)
c = 7.656 Z = 18 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cetine mine, Italy. 12.10 (100), 4.57 (53), 6.98 (42), 4.07...krausite, coquimbite, parabutlerite, butlerite, copiapite, epsomite, gypsum, pyrite. Distribution: Worldwide...Thick beds in the Santa Elena mine, Quebrada de La Alcaparrosa, San Juan Province, Argentina. In the USA,...Calico Hills, San Bernardino Co., at Island Mountain, Trinity Co., and in the Redington mine, Knoxville...from the Shattuck mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona; in Nevada, at the Cordero mine, Poalit district
Book (edition)
COMPENDIO de LAS ESPECIES MINERALES DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA Compilado y parcialmente actualizado por Milka...edición Roberto Miró ASOCIACIÓN MINERALÓGICA ARGENTINA FUNDACIÓN EMPREMIN 2015 PRÓLOGO Los tomos 1...(2007) de LAS ESPECIES MINERALES DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA se encuentran agotados y a pedido de numerosos...COMPENDIO DE LAS ESPECIES MINERALES DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA Con respecto a la versión anterior se han agregado...“Observaciones mineralógicas de la República Argentina”, referente a unas 30 especies pertenecientes
Journal (issue)
see botryogen crystals from Mina Sta. Elena (San Juan. Argentina). The crystals are up to 3-4 cm long...indeed. Botryogencrystals from Mina Sta. Elena(SanJuan, Argentina) up to 3-4 cm long. Jurgen Tron specimen...unpublished 'skorpionite' from the new Skorpion Mine near Rosh Pinah in Southwest Namibia were offered...or tarbuttite. Skorpion Mine is expected to become the world's largest zinc mine, covering 15% of our zinc...new minerals from that mine. I saw a few pieces of kochsandorite from the coal mine at Many in Hungary.
Journal (issue)
excaliburmineral.com Micromineralogy of the Blue Monster Mine, California Paul M. Adams 126 South Helberta Ave...Redondo Beach, California 90277 The Blue Monster Mine is located in Section 17,T I 2S, R37E on the east...and past the base of the tram for the Blue Monster Mine (Figure I). On my second visit I found the canyon...switchbacks up 400 feet vertically to the Blue Monster Mine (Figures 2-3). This trail is highly preferable to...trail existed. The Blue Monster Mine, formerly known as the Monster Mine, was a lead prospect that was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
*Corresponding author, e-mail: Juraj.Majzlan@uni-jena.de 2 Department of Material Research and Physics, Division of...Slovance 1999/2, 18221 Praha 8, Czech Republic Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum...Many of these phases bear some relevance for acid-mine drainage (AMD) systems, as briefly described below...or ferricopiapite. Minerals of the jarosite or copiapite groups are much more common at the AMD sites and...Fe(SO4)(OH)(H2O)2 Botryogen, copiapite Copiapite Amarantite Fe2O(SO4)2(H2O)7 Chalcanthite, copiapite Fibroferrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lane3, Janice L. Bishop4 and Stanley A. Mertzman5 Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley...Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, U.S.A. 2 Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts...Center, Mountain View, California, 94043, U.S.A. 5 Department of Earth and Environment, Franklin and Marshall...similar to those observed at Arad Samra, and copiapite and parabutlerite could be present at Tyrone Mount...E-mail: mdyar@mtholyoke.eud ‡ Present address: Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of tridvmite from other iocalities. A sample from san cristobal, Mexico, was found to have the same o and...county material rvere missing on the pattern of the San cristobal material. spectroscopic and chemical analyses...no evidence of a middle form. The tridymite from San cristobal showed two inversions, Iow to middle at...temperature range than expected in the case of the San Cristobal material are attributed to the presence...complicated, sequence was found using the materiai from San Cristobal. The presence and the behavior of the satellite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iron sulfate deposits (alcaparossa) of the "Santa Elena" mine, Dept. of Barreal, where a vein of pyrite...oxidized Associated minerals are fibroferrite, copiapite, botryogen. szomolnokite, gypsum, and epsomite...sulfatos de hierro de La Alcaparossa (Prov. de San Juan) . Boletin de Obras Sanitarias d.e la Nacion,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...wrote for Rocks & Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April...Cement quarries, 3 miles W of Bracken- ridge Park, San Antonio, in Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk; pyrite...creek located S of Loop 13 (Military Highway) in San Antonio, in Paleocene Willis Point Clay; gypsum*...(Zeitner, 1972). Altuda Mountain district, Bird mine, 8 miles E of Alpine on a N projecting ridge. Worked
Book (volume)
crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...the localities. Also obtained at Cerro Negro, Argentina, at Potosi and other localities in Bolivia, and...Rand district and in the Calico and Barstow mines, San Bernardino County, California. A mass of cerargyrite...Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially...native silver, iodyrite, calcite. In Mexico in the San Onofre and Plateros An iodian variety districts,
Book
Pefloles, Compania Minera Fresnillo, and Compaii.ia Santa Rosalia, who aJlowed me to photograph, gather samples...specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the state of Baja California...places as Mapimi in the state of Durango; Naica and Santa Eulalia in the state of Chihuahua; and Zacatecas...CALl[NTCS ... I MI ( Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...University of New York, Albany) Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Modified from Berstein, 1964, back
Book (edition)
vanadinite, Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...beeen foe We @ Wadeetin relvvagigld .xteliliey? santa rowan leks ) Get « ryi St pewory sine toting bee...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet
Book (edition)
vanadinite, Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double...MODE OF OCCURRENCE: Found in waste piles in a coal mine in the L'vov-Volynskii basin, USSR. It is found
Book
Pefioles, Compafiia Minera Fresnillo, and Compania Santa Rosalia, who allowed me to photograph, gather samples...specimens from such places as the La Fé Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the state of Baja California...places as Mapimi in the state of Durango; Naica and Santa Eulalia in the state of Chihuahua; and Zacatecas...WIC ' ' (OSE INSET) Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...Mexicali Show & Nensengdo Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Mod ors ified from Berstein, 1964
Book (edition)
Bernard (Czcch Republic). W.D. Birch (Australia), Elena Bonaccorsi (Italy), Ernst A.J. Burke (Netherlands)...(ltaly). Tony Steede (Canada). Ricardo Jose Sureda (Argentina). Ghcorgc Udubasa (Romania). Giovanna Veualini... tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the San Rafael swell about 47...FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza, Argentina. l'UM.\11972. 276-280...AgardJte-(Ce), CeCu.(AsO4)i(OH).-3H1O, hex., Clara mine, central Black Forest, Gennany,A1ifSS(2004),17-23
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....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...Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. I was fascinated by Prof. Juan Comas’ ancient history class...Calvo; Ing. Mario Arenas; Sr. Paulino Arias; Ing. Juan Ayza; Ing. Alfonso Barreda M., Ing. José Becerra
Book (edition)
ROBERT RAPP, JR. Associate Professor of Mineralogy Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota...Minneapolis. Minnesota JULIUS WEBER Associate, Department of Mineralogy American Museum of Natural History...History, New York, New York Research Associate, Department of Mineralogy Royal Ontario Museum.Toronto. Canada...Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely
Journal (issue)
Nataliya Yu. Pitomtseva, Ol'ga A. Golynskaya, Elena .S. Svirina PATHOLOGY OF CRYSTALS: WONDERFUL PHENOMENON...MINERALOGY: A SKETCH OF AN EXPOSITION Andrei V. Bobrov, Elena O. Bogacheva, Victor K. Garanin, and Galina P. Kudryavtseva...Glikin, Nataliya Yu. Pitomtseva, Olga A. Golynskaya, Elena S. Svirina PATHOLOGY OF CRYSTALS: WONDERFUL PHENOMENONOF...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...Expedition of the Eastern-Siberian Geological Department, prepared a geological map at a scale of 1 200
 
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