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Posnjakite from
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Posnjakite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Posnjakite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:933736
Long-form Identifier:1:3:933736:7
GUID (UUID V4):63dcc564-4d04-405d-b949-53ad2a922821
References
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Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...brochantite associated with langite and posnjakite occurs in the Ecton mine, Montgomery County (Smith 1978);...upper workings of the Stonehill or Woods copper mine, Randolph County, Alabama (Cook and Smith 1982)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu sulfates including antlerite, brochiantite, posnjakite, langite, and wroewolfeite and selected complex...brochantite Cu4SO4(OH)6 (Helliwell and Smith 1997), and posnjakite Cu4SO4(OH)6⋅H2O, langite Cu4SO4(OH)6⋅2H2O, and...significant in the synthesis of these minerals, with posnjakite formed at lower temperatures than brochantite...copper sulfate minerals antlerite, brochiantite, posnjakite, and langite all contain OH groups that are hydrogen...1997; Mellini and Merlino 1979). The minerals posnjakite and langite contain water molecules that are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
most famous deposit of the mineral at Chuquicamata in Chile, where the paragenefic sequence chalcanthite...diffraction file for antlerite, brochantite and posnjakite and the stoichiometry of Cu3SO4(OH)4.2H20 was...phase formed initially in these circumstances is posnjakite, Cu4SO4(OH)6.H20 (Komkov and Nefedov, 1967).... At all temperatures used in this study, posnjakite was seen to react to give brochantite within 24 hours...Bandy, 1938; Palache et al., 1951), notably at Chuquicamata, and in a number of deposits in Arizona, U.S
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formed rapidly under a wide range of conditions. Posnjakite (a hydrated basic cupric sulfate) forms under...that some atacamite, antlerite, and possibly posnjakite are also present but at levels below XRDA detectability...Cu4SO4(OH)6. H20 I , II, b ¶, II, b ¶, II, b, h Chuquicamata, Chile Gila County, Arizona, U.S.A. Gunnislake,...Precipitated SalJates Antlerite Brochantite Posnjakite * 1 indicates compound was observed by us in...orientation as indicated in Table 4. Small amounts of posnjakite, the hydrated basic sulfate Cu4(SO4)(OH)6- H20
Journal (issue)
Field Trip to South Wales Collecting Minerals in Chile Arthur Kingsbury - Falsified British Mineral Locations...196 July/Aug 2005 PERU MINERAL COLLECTING IN CHILE Alan and Sue Edwards have collected minerals from...the world including 7 trips to Namibia and two to Chile. They realised, as SMLS has done with its Geotourism... Alan and Sue both had brothers working out in Chile and this was the main reason for this trip. The...Pedro de Atacama and the northern province of Putre (see map). •' Calama / { \ I ? I • On their first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
antlerite (Cu3SO4(OH)4), which predominates at Chuquicamata, Chile. Our literature search also yielded evidence...also observed the formation of brochantite or posnjakite, Cu4(SO4)(OH)6.H2O, in the slow, reverse titration...evidence for the hydrate of antlerite and prepared posnjakite by fast addition of sodium carbonate to copper...here the solution was heated to at least 80ºC. Posnjakite (Cu4SO4(OH)6.H2O). Cold (5ºC) 0.02 M NaOH was...week 0 1 week 30 min 0.05 0.05 5 30 min posnjakite 0.05 0.05 0 30 min wroewolfeite{ 1.0 1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...Baumgarten et al. 2008 Dill et al. 1997a Cajamarca Province Peru Palache et al. 1951 Malpelo Island, Colombia...Agua Shuca Cerro Blanco El Salvador Schneider 1958; Cazañas et al. 2003 El Cobre Cuba Camprubí et...Maksaev et al. 2007; Singer et al. 2008 Tarapaca Chile Cu porphyry-type Cu volcanicBouzari & Clark 2002;...Maksaev et al. 2007; Singer et al. 2008 Arica Chile Zn-(Bb-Ba) non-sulfidic/ Soares Monteiro et al
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and geochemistry of the copper-dominated neutral mine drainage at the Cu deposit Ľubietová-Podlipa (Slovakia)...and geochemistry of the copper-dominated neutral mine drainage at the Cu deposit Ľubietová-Podlipa (Slovakia)...and geochemistry of the copper-dominated neutral mine drainage at the Cu deposit Ľubietová-Podlipa (Slovakia)...TE D M AN U SC RI PT Abstract – The neutral mine drainage system at Ľubietová in Slovakia is overwhelmingly...ppb in the most concentrated aqueous sample). This mine drainage is generated by oxidative dissolution of
Journal (issue)
Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...(1882–1976) Charles Oscar Fernquist was born in Loa Born Ralso, Sweden, in 1882, and followed in his
Book (edition)
ACGAEC Acra del XV Co11greso Geologico Argentino, El Ca/afate ACSc Acta Clremica Sca11di11a1•ica AE... of CanadaFinal Program and Abstracts Geochimica el Cosmochimica Acta Geologiska Fore11i11ge11S i Stockholm...Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the...104(3). 326-328 □ Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza
Journal (issue)
Teca li (M exico); Bergen (Norway); Tortosa (Spain); El Marmol, Ca lifornia and Yul e, Colorado (USA). Group:...aggregate of prismatic bismuthinite crystals from a mine at Brosso, near Turin (Italy). TESTS AND TREATMENT...bonattite, booth ite, chalcantl1ite, langite, posnjakite and wroewolfeite. Despite ilieir numerous similari...crystals of brochantite from the Atacama Desert (Chile). The vivid green coloration of this mineral is...aggregates of brochantite from mines at Chuquicamata {Chile). Right: Dark green and black prismatic crystals
Book (edition)
Massicot Feitknechtite grey; 15 light blue Posnjakite medium grey; 15 bright yellow, orange bright... 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
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illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of...Badenweiler — Schwarzwald (FRG), in large masses in (Chile) and (Bolivia) e Application: copper ore. Kermesite... Andreasberg (FRG), Pribram (Czechoslovakia), (Chile), (Mexico), (USA) and (USSR) e Application: silver...200 kg (USSR), San Sebastian (Mexico), Coquimbo (Chile), Red Cloud (Colorado) and Calaveras Co. (California)
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Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of...Badenweiler - Schwarzwald (FRG), in large masses in (Chile) and (Bolivia)• Application: copper ore. Kermesite... Andreasberg (FRG), Prfbram (Czechoslovakia), (Chile), (Mexico), (USA) and (USSR) • Application: silver...200 kg (USSR), San Sebastian (Mexico), Coquimbo (Chile), Red Cloud (Colorado) and Calaveras Co. (California)...- aggregation of crysta ls from pil e of a coal mine; Kladn o (Czechoslovakia - width of field 15 mm)
Book
symbols are used: E — approved by the CNMMN [1466]; El — discredited by the CNMMN [248]; E — “Grandfather”...K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...brownish-yellow, green, white, etc. Chanarcillo, Chile. H= 3.5, Djj4= 4.434, Dq= 4.45, VHB 04. Friedel...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
several copper sulfate minerals (brochantite, posnjakite, and antlerite) acquired using CuO and CuSO4...most common secondary minerals in the dump are posnjakite and langite, whereas malachite is rare. In hand...which the secondary copper minerals langite, posnjakite, or malachite are the dissolving source of copper...discharged from the dumps and adits in this mining district is invariably near-neutral. Devilline also precipitates...in the dumps 957 and mine wastes. The dissolution of langite or posnjakite, however, should quickly
Journal (issue)
Tim Neall Mud-filled fluorite vugs in Greenlaws mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Stephen Moreton Gearksutite...lding and Andy G. Tindle Cotunnite from Penrhyn Du Mine, Gwynedd, Wales Neil Hubbard and David I. Green...An update of the supergene mineralogy of Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F Bridges and David I...fluorite from Rampgill, Coalcleugh and Bameycraig mine system, Nenthead, Cumbria, England - an update Trevor...an update on the supergene mineralogy of Hilton mine in Cumbria where they have found the arsenates adamite
Journal (issue)
Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite from Bwlch mine, Deganwy, Conwy, Wales C; Ryback and J G. Francis... D.I. Green and G. Ry back Raspite from Carrock mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England: a first British...Neall and D.I. Green Vesignieite from Castletown mine, Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, a first Scottish... particularly in Cornwall, Devon and the Lake District. (See obituaries: Embrey, 1973a, IlJ73b. See also...Hanley's name added to papers dealing with Lake District minerals). Kingsbury himself, howe~er, carried
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1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...The Canadian Mineralogist 2 val ( ew ‘ )) AT “EL aye ia a ae daaYepAoNpte Nee Y ; Limonite, Eldorado
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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....canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country names are...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry, Academy Sinica, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, People's Republic of China (Accepted after revision... 1 ). Since July 1982, a 2 million tpy open pit mine and mill complex is being operated by the Hindustan...c at La Escondida porphyry copper deposit, (N. Chile). We consider that the mineral sequence at Malanjkhand...grinding. The an from Ani mine, Japan (type locality ), from Mina Estrella, Chile (Clark and Sillitoe, 1971)...Figure 4). The iron-free ans from Ani mine, Japan, Mina Estrella, Chile, and Yarrowite Spionkop Creek deposit
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...103 by M. Hansen The libethenite zone, Burra mine, South Australia .................................92-meter level,” though all other measurements in the mine will be converted. In short, English units will...worked in the Surveyor’s Department at the Geevor tin mine (Pendeen, Cornwall), and with Consolidated Goldfields...in Redfield, Iowa, to begin the long journey to Chile. The diary o f his three-month expedition in search...that might be compared to the pampa of northern Chile was the Cerros de Sal of Atacama. The ground must
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FLUORITE crystal group, 8.1 cm, from the Shangbao mine, H unan, China. Collector's Edge Minerals specimen;...color, and give a historical background for each mine or mining venture. These catalogs, still available...edu Fax: (904) 822-7328 234 E. M ichigan Avenue D eL an d , Florida Mailing: 421 N. W oodland Blvd., U...than 120 minerals have been identified from this mine, but as a mineral locality it is best known fo r...of the iron ore mine, ore concentration plant, and many small coal mines in the district. During its operation
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...TY EP ie is eet i fro 7 tin tas o/iotewy” el ry: ae ~“ytivee Pahaiecl apeaivent 7 1d sadinee...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet
 
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