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Gypsum from
Morococala Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morococala Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1267468
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1267468:6
GUID (UUID V4):e569febd-dcf3-4775-b247-256ee5720847
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
1.6km (1.0 miles) Santa Fé Mine, Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
8.1km (5.0 miles) Japo Mine (Negro Pabellón Mine), Santa Fé mining district, Pantaleón Dalence Province, Oruro, Bolivia
37.5km (23.3 miles) Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí, Bolivia
41.0km (25.5 miles) San José Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
41.6km (25.9 miles) Itos Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
65.0km (40.4 miles) Incuyo, Tapacari Province, Cochabamba, 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 (issue)
Trebisky and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California..........................Henderson The Mineralogy of the Department of Oruro, Bolivia..............................................c o rc l W \ Beryl. The Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina...made his mark in a tourmaline find at the B.B. #7 mine in north Norway, Maine, and came to fame as the...Maine, and proceeded to learn Maine’s pegmatites by mining them. He has, over the years, mined commercial-grade
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
July/August: Pyrite, quartz, and galena, Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, John...photo. September/October: PhosphophylIite, Potosi, Bolivia. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. November/December:...November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht...Pedro Mine, Malacacheta District, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 320-22; Vivianite, Morococala Area, Oruro, Bolivia...G., The Sunrise Mine near Hartville Wyoming, 163-68 ' Dyck, H. M., The Sunrise Mine near Hartville, Wyoming
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Sterling mine, Antwerp, New York ........ 199 G. W. Robinson...and S. C. Chamberlain Pseudomorphs from the Burra mine, South Australia ..............................219...cm long, on white natrolite from the Dallas Gem mine, San Benito County, California. For more on this...directed the electrification of various Spanish mine shafts and facilities near Tarragona, Almaden, and...years, beginning at the age of ten while visiting mining properties owned by his family. The first of his
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extensivefield mappingby the GeologicSurveyof Bolivia, are adequateto allow elucidationof the major featuresof...Cruz. Group III are samples from the mining districtsfrom Oruro to, and a little southof, Potosl. Samplelocalitiesand...collectedon rocks in part suppliedby severalgeologistsin Bolivia and in part collectedon field trips by the authors...dating veins, flows, and in- have been publishedin Bolivia. The part of this trusions associated with various...Altiplano Basin carried out by the GeologicSurvey of Bolivia in cooperationwith the U.S. Agency for International
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manchester Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production...number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that state’s leading...associated with blue fluorite, galena, and water-clear gypsum have been found in recent years in the Dolomite...the commercial zinc mines of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and Figure 1....sphalerite (variety marmatite) on siderite from the Eagle mine, Gilman, Colorado. The 8.4-cm specimen is in the
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...gysinite-(Nd) and other rare minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by...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
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
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 (issue)
Jianghshan, Guangdong Province. I have seen others listed as coming from Hebei Province. Regardless of where...4 Fig. 1. Apophyllite, Jianghshan, Guangdong Province, China, photo by Dan Weinrich. neat piece. To...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite
Book
crystal 10.5 cm (41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover:...Willian, Boyce Thompson, founder of the Newmont Mining Corporation, along with an endowment that enables...8ixbite (Mn,Fe)2O3 78 109-116 Anhydrite CaSO, 109 Gypsum CaSO, • 2H 2O 110 Anglesite PbSO, 111 21 Barite...Octahedral Diamond Crystal in Kimber lite Premier Mine, Kimberley, South Africa On loan from Mrs Charles...an edge 65 Fluorite on Sphalerite 66 Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Tennessee Crystals 2.5 cm (1 ,n.) across
Report (issue)
SUMMARY OF DATA AVAILABLE FOR THE SALAR DE UYUNI, BOLIVIA by G.J. Orris Open-File Report 95-618 This report...Ignimbrite (Pleistocene-Pliocene) C3 Los Frailes and Morococala ignimbrites (Miocene) I Intrusive rocks (Pliocene-Oligocene)...sylvite; possibly Cu, Au, Ag. Gangue mineralogy: gypsum, clays. Alteration: Strong hydrothermal clay alteration...is very porous, composed largely of halite and gypsum, and up to 10 feet thick. A 121 m deep borehole...sediments. Halite has been produced from the Colchani Mine since the 1500's and reportedly grades 95.10% NaCl
Journal (issue)
Resources, a branch of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. John was born in Buffalo...the Sunday and West Sunday Mines, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado. His mineral collecting...leftovers later. In 2008, Tim took over sales for UK Mining Ventures at the Tucson Show and did an outstanding...every Tucson Show thereafter, either working for UK Mining Ventures or for Cal Graeber Minerals. He also traveled...Scotland, Taft’s quarry in Wales, and the Florence mine in Cumbria), and to work in the cleaning lab of
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 (issue)
Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than anywhere...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas
Report (issue)
- - - - - - - - 16 9. Proportions of total world mine production of tin accounted for by countries having...Countries having greater than 2,000 metric tons of tin mine production in any one of the selected years 1940-8...deposits and districts, by country, deposit type, and mining method ------------------------------------------Tin...- - - - - - - - Estimated cumulative and annual mine production of tin, contained in ore and concentrate:...world's major deposits and districts, listed by mining method and economic class of country- - - - - -
Journal (issue)
.... 5 by C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ..................................and M. Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ................................ Sabelli and G. Brizzi Siegenite from the Buick mine, Bixby, Missouri .................................collectors with a side-interest in western and mining memorabilia should find it particularly inter­...December 13, 1941, in Bisbee to a family whose mining tradition reaches back four generations. He is
Journal (issue)
January 1998 ISSN: 1355-4565 Turquoise from Hubei Province, China Qi Lijian, FGA, DGA, Yan Weixuan, FGA,...ABSTRACT: The turquoise deposit in Yunyang district, Hubei Province, China, is characterized by its large...secondary leaching Introduction unyang in Hubei Province, located in the eastern section of the Qinling...handicrafts (Figure 2). Y The exceptionally long mining history of turquoise can be deduced from the 20...located in Yongjing County, Gansu Province, China. This indicates a mining history of about 3200-3800 years
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: Llallagua, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...perhaps the finest known, 2 cm, from Llallagua, Bolivia. Mark Chance Bandy collection; current owner unknown...experience at the Gottesehre (“God’s Honor”) mine, a small fluorite mining operation in Urberg, near Sankt Blasien...E-Mail: stuwil@aol.com Rhodochrosite, Uchucchaqua mine, Lima Dept. Peru 2 inches. Wilensky photo. Clara...SMALE Famous Mineral Localities: Llallagua, Bolivia Jaroslav Hyrsl Ke kurtum 383 142 00 Prague, Czech
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FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais...photo. Benitoite on natrolite, 5.5 cm, Dallas Gern mine, San Benito County, California. Ex Robert Gill collection
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
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..... 127 by T. Szenics The El Dragon mine, Potosi, Bolivia ..........................................Lehrberger & G. Schnorrer-Kohler Arizona's Silver mining district .............................................family in Mainz, Germany, in 1853. He entered the mining academy at Frieberg and, after his graduation,...it unlikely that axinite would be found in a gold mine. Checking with local residents turned up nothing...court house in Madera to check the property and mine records of the Coarsegold area. I located the name
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MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous
 
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