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Chalcedony from
Chocaya mine, Chocaya-Animas mining district (Animas-Chocaya mining district), Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chocaya mine, Chocaya-Animas mining district (Animas-Chocaya mining district), Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:575322
Long-form Identifier:1:3:575322:2
GUID (UUID V4):f911c341-91b1-4fd4-9f14-482f7ea98663
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
0.8km (0.5 miles) Chocaya-Animas mining district (Animas-Chocaya mining district), Atocha Municipality, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
75.2km (46.7 miles) Pulacayo Mine (Huanchaca mine), Huanchaca, Uyuni Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
82.5km (51.3 miles) Veta Montecristo (Monte Cristo mine), Churata District, Caiza D municipality, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....owned by Richard Bideaux’s Arizona Exploring and Mining Company for quite a few years. Bideaux and Wayne...period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
70, 1975, pp. 913-927 PorphyryTin Depositsin Bolivia R. H. SILLITOE,C. HALLS, AND J. N. GRANT Abstract...central and southern parts of the Bolivian tin province has been derived largely from lode systemsassociatedwith...Potos[ A mineralized volcanic edifice remains at Chocaya and is believed to overlie a subjacentstock. The...dikes that intrude the Paleozoic-to- The tin province Tertiarysuccession are considered late Tertiary...antimonyhavealsobeenworked. In the northernsectorof the province (Fig. 1), in the CordillerasReal and QuimsaCruz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metallogenetic Epochs and Provinces of Bolivia The Tin-Province (Part I) The Metallogenetic Provinces...the Altiplano (Part II) F. A~LFELD Cochabamba, Bolivia Partf. An attempt is made to solve the relationships...formation of ore deposits using the Bolivian tin-province as an example. In the eastern Cordillera we are...old geotectonic zone of weakness divides the tin district into two parts which differ from each other in...tin-silver mineralization is discussed. Within the tin-province three metallogenic epochs are recognized, with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization although no intrusive rocks are exposed in the mine region. Taking the noble gas evidence for a magmatic...of the Pircas River and led to small underground mining activities for tin and silver ore. From 1936 until...until its closure in 2017, the Pirquitas mine became the most important Sn-Ag⁎ (Zn) producer in Argentina...was first operated by underground mining and since 2009 by open pit mining. The total silver production was...is about 12 km east of the mine. A borehole extending 800 m below the mine floor (Soler et al., 2007) failed
Report (volume)
Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA With a section on...Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia I by U.S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia; with a section...mineral resources-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental. 3. Geology-Altiplano. 4. Geology-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental...Geological Survey (U.S.) II. Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia. Ill. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1975 [TN39.A4] 557.3s--dc20...cooperation between the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia and the U.S. Geological Survey. The geologic research
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Polymetallic Ores from a Porphyry System: the Morococha District, Peru Diego Benites, Lisard Torró, Jean Vallance...Polymetallic Ores from a Porphyry System: the Morococha District, Peru, Ore Geology Reviews (2021), doi: https://doi...Polymetallic Ores from a Porphyry System: the Morococha District, Peru 3 Diego Benitesa, Lisard Torróa,*, Jean...in the Miocene porphyry- 20 related Morococha District, Central Peru. Among the investigated minerals...bodies formed during the so-called “Morococha district- 36 scale polymetallic event” include, from
Book (edition)
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...matrix (dark grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany
Journal (issue)
Calaveras County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$1,400 Crystal Mine, Angels Camp, Calif. GOLD—1.4 oz. mass, large crystals...dera County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$2,750 Crystal Mine, Angels Camp, Calif. KRISTALLE Wayne and Dona.............. 28 by Peter B. Leavens The Bluebell Mine, Riondel, British Columbia, Canada................38 by Wendell E. Wilson and John S. White, Jr. Mining Claims for the Mineral Collector.................Nev. 89503 Introduction The Copper Mountain mining district, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, was active
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Greenish-blue hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarho, Ourzazate, Morocco, have the composition...occurring as an intergrowth with djurleite at the Ani mine, Akita, Japan, in prismatic or platy crystals closely...graftonite, as red-brown crystals from San Luis Province, Argentina, at Los Aleros, Amanda, and San Salvador...on a few specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona. Named for its discoverer...lead-grey aggregates from the North Lily mine, East Tintic district, Utah; orthorhombic. Named for P. Billingsley
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
Catalog/List
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...‘goodies,’ as Rock would say, as they came out. Mining projects that Rock was a part of, often yielded...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans...let alone someone hunting crystals. He went to Bolivia, Fiji, Ethiopia, Rhodesia, and many other places
Report (issue)
HATCH, Consulting Mining Engineer, forn1erly President of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. 1...East Africa, South-\.vest Africa 91 A1nerica: Bolivia, Other South American States, Mexico, United States...followed in 1872 by the Australian deposits. The tin-mining areas of South Africa and Nigeria are of more recent...a small amount. The chief foreign sources are Bolivia, the Dutch East Indies, Siam and China. The chief...Settlem'ts 8 Foreign Countries : Austria-Hungary 24 Bolivia . 22,657 China . . 8,644 Dutch East Indies 19,912
Journal (issue)
Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...graduating from the Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) Mining Institute. Working here for nearly a year, the...thickness, the following minerals are formed: chalcedony, kaolinite, calcite, serpentine (sungulite),
Journal (issue)
History Mining Background India is a vast and densely populated country with a history of mining going...(the Golconda district in the princely state of Hyderabad, now Andhra Pradesh; a district located between...between the Mahanadi and Godavari valleys; and a district around Panna in the old region of Bundelkand, now...in the early 1800’s at Padyur in the Coimbatore district of Tamilnadu. Exceptionally deep blue aquamarine... and there is likewise little thought given by mining personnel to saving specimens that are primarily
Book (edition)
production, and prices often so low as to make mining unprofitable; and the end of that period has not...to record production since 1930. Just now gold mining appears to be the only metal industry which is...—Interpretation sulpliide waters — Chloride water analyses Mine waters waters— Sulphate waters Oxidation of waters—“Carbonate...veins in basic lavas General features The Kennecott mine, Alaska— ( ’opper sulphide veins in intrusive basic... region, district district-“' — — — Rico district—Lake City district— Creede district Summary C'asapaica
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...position. in the figure labeled 461 San Jose, Bolivia, for the brachydome v read w. insert superscript...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg
Book (edition)
PAGE Extraction of Metals and Minerals 398 Mining, 398; Milling, 1+10; Smelting, 1+11+; Refining...and as such was taught as one phase of mining in the early mining schools. As greater attention was paid...tive industries. The early kinship with mining, and metal mining in particular, with which economic geology...specialized subdivision of economic geology known as mining geology which deals especially with the problems...problems of ore deposits and their relation to metal mining and, to some extent, with metallurgy. This relation
Book (edition)
waters-Summary- Interpretation of ·water analyses-Mine waters-Chloride waters- Carbonate waters-Sulphate...veins in basic lavas-General features-The l(ennecott mine, Alaska-Copper sulphide veins in intrusive basic...·veins-1\tlincral association- Origin-Mine \vatcrs-Rock alteration-Mining and srnelting operations-The copper...features-Telluride district-Silverton district-Rico district-Lake City district-Creede district-Summary-Casapalca...barite-Pyritic galena-quartz veins- The silver-tin veins of Bolivia- The silver-lead replacement deposits in limestone-General
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
---- |----:-( |- % A DICTIONARY OF SPANISH MINING TERMIS MININAND METALURCICALPUBLICATIONS Geology...Studies. Mining Geology . . Prospecting for Minerals . Ore and Stone Mining. . Elements of Mining . . Coal...Coal Mining . Practical Coal Mining . Elementary 39 Elect. Colliery Practice . Mine-Surveying . . Mine...Mine Air, Investigation of. Mining Law . . Blasting and Explosives . Testing Explosives . Shaft Sinking...Sinking . 39 - e - - - º - Mining - - . - *3 - - - 7º . - - $10.00 - H. W. HUGHES, F
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
present of mining and metallurgy of lead . . . . . . . . . . . 18.7.2. Past and present of mining and metallurgy...hampering our access to mineral deposits, such as mining depth controlled among others by the geothermal...Hewett in 1927 who was able to demonstrate that in mining countries exploitation, export and import of metals...passed its climax. At the very end the domestic mining industry can no longer cater for the needs and...looked up in various publications such as the “World Mining Data”, a yearbook issued by Weber and Zsak (2007)
 
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