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Malachite from
San Francisco Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Francisco Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:978615
Long-form Identifier:1:3:978615:8
GUID (UUID V4):ad7c13bf-5ac5-4383-980f-a535838d6f36
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
9.3km (5.8 miles) ⓘFaride Mine, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
63.6km (39.5 miles) ⓘLomas Bayas Mine, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
64.9km (40.3 miles) ⓘToki Cu deposit (Toki Cluster), Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
78.0km (48.5 miles) ⓘSanta Ana Mine (Chapacase Mine), María Elena, Tocopilla Province, Antofagasta, Chile
79.3km (49.3 miles) ⓘChuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
97.0km (60.2 miles) ⓘMantos Blancos Mine, Antofagasta, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
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Report (issue)
PROSPECTS OF THE I, H, IE, IV, AND V REGIONS, NORTHERN CHILE compiled by William C. Williams Open-File Report...complement to my dissertation work in northern Chile under the auspices of Dr. John Guilbert at the University...prospects in the I, n, IE, IV, and V Regions of Chile (Figure 1). Over 3000 sites were compiled from published...Geologia y Yacimientos Metaliferos de la Region de Antofagasta: Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Boletin...well as descriptions of the major mines throughout Chile with insights as to their genesis. Finally, Frutos
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crystals from the Aris Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District. Khomas Region. Namibia). In my view they are...collected April or May 2006 in the Cigana Mine (used to be Jocao Mine) (Galilea, Minas Gerais, ‱ Brasil). The...crystals on prehnite from Da Liang Shan (Sichuan Province. China) but never saw them myself, but I did see...novelty. Vesuvianite crystals from Da Ye (Hubei Province) were new to me. The crystals are about 1 cm,...the vendors said the material comes from a copper mine - they are unusual in metamorphic, calc-silicic
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CAPRICORNIO Au-Ag EPITHERMAL VEIN SYSTEM, ANTOFAGASTA REGION, CHILE GIUSEPPE ARFȧ AND MARIA BONI* Dipartimento...Paleocene–Eocene metallogenic belt, 60 km ENE of Antofagasta in the physiographic Central Depression, between...epithermal, Au-Ag, supergene Au-Ag, aridity, gold, Antofagasta Region, Central Depression. § Corresponding...CANADIAN MINERALOGIST INTRODUCTION The Antofagasta region in northern Chile hosts many of the world’s signiïŹcant...Capricornio property is located 60 km ENE of Antofagasta (23831 0 S latitude, 69850 0 W longitude), in
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Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal from...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless...Bandylite 27 CuB(OH)4F Locality: Palestina, Atacama, Chile. Description: Blue crystals from the association...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description:
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Sillitoe Jeffrey W. Hedenquist, Michael Harris, and Francisco Camus, Editors Special Publications of the Society...Sillitoe Jeffrey W. Hedenquist, Michael Harris, and Francisco Camus, Editors First Edition 2012 Printed by...label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Finlayson ix Jeffrey W. Hedenquist, Michael Harris, Francisco Camus xiii Richard H. Sillitoe 1 Sergio L... Sillitoe, Chilong Wong, Patricio FernĂĄndez, Francisco Crignola, Marco Ipinza, and Felipe UrzĂșa 55
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Central Atacama Province, Chile Abstract: Geologically, the central part of Atacama Province straddles the...contact between the Andean batholith of western Chile and the stratified rocks to the east. Apophyses...The entire area is in the copper metallogenetic province of Ruiz and Ericksen (1962), and parts of it are...hypogene ore deposits in Chile are represented in the central part of Atacama Province. However, most of the...References cited 317 Figure 1. Index map of Atacama Province, Chile . . . 306 2. Locations of figures in Plates
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Transylvania, Romania). A new mineral for this famous gold mining locality and Romania. The mineral is associated...Kladno on the dumps of a long time closed uranium mine at Slavkovicc, western Moravia, Czech Republic....lavendulan from Santa Catalina Mine. Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The lavendulan is not present...sampleite in Chile; first reported in Mineral News, March, 1997 issue from the El Guanaco gold mine near Taltal...Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Wolscndorlite was found on a very old specimen (late Continued on
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Origin of Copper-bearingTourmaline BrecciaPipes, Chile R. H. SILLITOEAND F. J. SAWKINS Abstract In northandcentralChile...pipesandthelatterstages of theearliestTertiarymagmatic cycle in Chile. This studyincludes groupsof tourmaline breccia...NEAR-VERTICAL columnsof brecciacementedby tour- tinela, San Pedro de Cachiyuyo,Cachiyuyode maline,quartzandsulfides...or detail in view of their wide distribution in Chile and workedon a relativelysmall scalefor copper,gold...undertakenbecausethis classof depositis closely centeredon the San Pedro de Cachiyuyogroup of associated in time and
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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
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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
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Trebisky and S. B. Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California..........................c o rc l W \ Beryl. The Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina... PERI LITHON BOOKS Box 9996, 5372 Van Nuys Ct. San Diego, CA 92109 P.O. BOX 487-MF, YUCAIPA, CALIF...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
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Ercit, the ordonezite is a new mineral for Madoc mining dis1rict and for Canada. and only the third locality...found on a specimen from Uchucchagua Mine, near Oyon, Oyon Province. Lima Department. Peru. A new mineral...silver mining locality and only the second locality in Peru after the Casapalcu mining district. The mineral...Socrates Mine. Sonoma County. Cahfom1a. Both are new minerals for this famous mercury mine. The mineral...Lloyd Twaides from the Good Hope Mine, near 1-!edley,_S_1milkameen District, BC. Canada labelled as hedleyne
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Av. Jose Galvez Barrenechea 218, Urb. Corpac Lima-San Isidro, Peru Prof. Dr. ESTEBAN CEDILW Facultad de...Geologia, Universidad de Guanajuato Ex-Hacienda de San Matias s/n Apartado Postal 347 Guanajuato, Gto. 36020...Universidad de Concepci6n Casilla 4107 Concepci6n, Chile ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1.... . . . 37 The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc
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crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...100. Found at several mines in the Huantajaya district, calcite, embolite, cerargyrite, bromyrite, iodyrite...unstable and AgCl exsolves on standing.^^ Tarapacd, Chile, associated with Sylvite 7 Ref. 1. 015 Goldschmidt...various sulfates in the nitrate deposits of Tarapaca, Chile, and similarly in Peru. In the United States sylvite...wad, and limonite; also cerussite, atacamite, malachite, pyromorphite, wulfenite. Cerargyrite occurs
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Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de... tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the San Rafael swell about 47...Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza, Argentina. l'UM...a seri Qlh·enite. compare E\Clte. ChanÄrcillo. Chile . .\U 6. 320-328 (str.) witb 0/ivenite 0 Adamsite-(\')...AgardJte-(Ce), CeCu.(AsO4)i(OH).-3H1O, hex., Clara mine, central Black Forest, Gennany,A1ifSS(2004),17-23
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across, perched on a compact fibrous crust of malachite and crystalline azurite attached to massive cuprite...consist primarily of native copper and cuprite with malachite, azurite and a large suite of secondary copper-oxysalt...ïŹbrous crust of malachite and crystalline azurite on massive cuprite. The malachite and azurite ïŹll pore...contain abundant randomly-oriented inclusions of malachite and (possibly) paratacamite. The streak is pale...106 in: Microbeam Analysis, 1985, San Francisco Press, San Francisco, California. Schlüter, J., Klaska
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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,...of Coarsegold.” In May of 1968 I stopped in San Francisco to visit the mineral museum of the California...northeast on route 41 from the fertile and flat San Joaquin Valley of central California in Madera County
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ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11ïżœ. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,Uïżœ Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...International border -----·- Departmental border 22 + Antofagasta ! i A RGENT A 0 100 0 640 200 100 600............................ 4 BY ALFREDO PETROV Mining, Politics, and Tumult: A Brief Look at Bolivian...BY JAROSLAV HYRSL AND ALFREDO PETROV The Poopo District .............................................
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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
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Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș A translation of MinerĂ­a y Metalurgia en el Antiguo PerĂș ArqueolĂłgicas...[MinerĂ­a y metalurgia en el antiguo PerĂș. English] Mining and metallurgy in ancient PerĂș / by Georg Petersen... Contents Introduction to the English translation of Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerĂș Prologue . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Alluvial Gold Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission... CONTENTS ‱ Foreword lX Preface Xl Important Mining Districts 1 Discovery and Developments in Mexico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in Mexico, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- LX x I Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors
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The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...is * CONTENTS Foreword Preface Important Mining Districts Discovery and Developments in MĂ©xico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in MĂ©xico, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- x / Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors
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org/details/geologyofchile0000unse The Geology of Chile ‱ The Geologica l Society of London Books Editorial...T. & GIBBO, s, W . (eds) 2007 . The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society, London. CHARRIER, R., PINTO...the Andean Orogeo in Chile. Jn: MORENO, T. & GrnsoNs, W. (eds) The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society...Society, London, 21-114. The Geology of Chile EDITED BY TERESA MORENO Earth Sciences Institute 'J aume...\ii . Grosjean 13. Field excursion from central Chile to the Atacama De<,crt. W. Gibbons & -1. Moreno
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cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals...are many and include brochantite, caledonite, malachite, aurichalcite, cerussite, anglesite, leadhillite...several Maine occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham...(Graham or Galena King mine), Coos County, and Mineral Hill near Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire
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