Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Melanterite from
Excelsior Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Pasco province, Pasco, Peru


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Melanterite
Formula:Fe2+(H2O)6SO4 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Melanterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Excelsior Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Pasco province, Pasco, Peru
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1096787
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1096787:4
GUID (UUID V4):5de2b423-b466-4bba-94c3-9d8e2deae33a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Deposits of the Atacocha District ·Departamento de Pasco Peru By ROBERT F. JOHNSON, RICHARD W. LEWIS, Jr....with the lnstituto N acional de lnvestigacion y Fo·mento Mineros, Ministerio de Fomento y Obras Publicas..._______________ _ Mine descriptions _________________________________________________ _ ~1achcan mine ________...__________ _ Mine workings ____________________________________________ _ -:\lilpo mine ____________...sections of the Atacoeha district, Departamento de Pasco, Peru. Geologic map of the Machcan area. Map of the
Book
.....• ••~.. lnstituto Tecnol6gico i ~ GeoMinero de Espana Special Publication No. 8 f_o_r_G~e~o-lo_g_y_...CARDOZO Universidad Nacional de lngenieria, and Newmont Peru Limited Gerente de Exploraciones Av. Jose Galvez...Isidro, Peru Prof. Dr. ESTEBAN CEDILW Facultad de Minas, Metalurgia y Geologia, Universidad de Guanajuato...Guanajuato Ex-Hacienda de San Matias s/n Apartado Postal 347 Guanajuato, Gto. 36020, Mexico Prof. Dr. Lwfs...Lwfs FONTBOTE Departement de Mineralogie, Universite de Geneve 12, rue des Maraichers CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spontaneously combusting coal waste pile of the Kukla mine in Oslavany, Czech Republic, were investigated....hematite, evaporation, Mg sulphates. Introduction ACID mine drainage (AMD) has been studied extensively in sulphidic...investigated a waste-rock pile in a mountainous region of Peru. They found seasonal changes in element cycling...siderite and dolomite (BousĚŚka et al., 2000). The Kukla mine, located 270 m above sea level in Oslavany, is part...exploited). The mine-waste pile is located to the north-east of Oslavany, west of the Kukla mine, and occupies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bernhard Dold 1,3,* 1 2 3 Institut de Minéralogie et Géochimie, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland...Switzerland Present Address: Laboratoire de Traitement des Eaux usées, Institut Fondamental d’Afrique...Mining Research & Consult EIRL), Casilla 28, San Pedro de la Paz 4130000, Chile * Author to whom correspondence...to metal sulfides precipitation. Keywords: acid mine drainage; bioremediation; sulfate-reducing bacteria;...Introduction Sulfide oxidation in mine tailings is a major source of acid mine drainage (AMD) production [1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dissolution, and Transformation of Secondary Minerals in Mine Rock and Drainage: A Review Jose Eric Ortiz-Castillo...Dissolution, and Transformation of Secondary Minerals in Mine Rock and Drainage: A Review. Minerals 2021, 11,...ca Correspondence: wenying.liu@ubc.ca Abstract: Mine waste rock and drainage pose lasting environmental...industry, regulatory agencies, and society as a whole. Mine drainage can be alkaline, neutral, moderately, or...oxidation, the diverse microbial communities present in mine rock and drainage may also participate in the formation
Book
dehydration of their surfaces some minerals, such as melanterite and chalcanthite become paler, and it is advisable...orthoclase C monoclinic (3) a = y = 90° melanterite C b a orthorhombic (3) o = B=y= soo sulphur...Almaden (Spain), Monte Amiata (Italy), Juan Cavelica (Peru), (USA) • Application : chemistry, measuring instruments...(Yugoslavia), Mercur - Utah (USA), Juan Cavelica (Peru); large crystals (up to 60 cm and 30 kg) are found...Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the information about cinnabar from the Red Devil Mine of Sleetmute, Alaska, and thought you might like...siderite have been found in the Junction copper mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS — A black mass...sphalerite (gem quality) from the famous Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo. Some small specimens...us — very nice material. "From the Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo., by the Green Mountain...Mountain Reservoir. Some galena xls also found here. "Mine temporarily closed again due to low price of zinc
Book
illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...dehydration of their surfaces some minerals, such as melanterite and chalcanthite become paler, and it is advisable...a Ls gypsum sulphur realgar cerussite melanterite augite olivine enstatite chalcopyrite scapolite...rare; Idria Monte Amiata (Italy), Juan Cavelica (Peru), (USA) e Application: chemistry, measuring instruments...(Yugoslavia), Mercur — Utah (USA), Juan Cavelica (Peru); large crystals (up to 60 cm and 30 kg) are found
Book (edition)
Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada), Joel...\lim•ra/ogica ASG ASJS,\' Arc:hil-1.•s de Science G,•111.½·e Atti de/la Sod,•ta ltalicma di Scienze Natura/i...1·exactas,jisicos y natura/es. Unil'ersidad nacicmal de Cordoba Bulletin of the Geologica/ Society of Finland...Geo/ogical Sciences Bulletin de ,\lineralogie and its precursors Boletin de Minera/ogia (Sociadad Mexicana...Association Bulletin de fa Societe Beige de Geologie 8111/elinde la Societe franraise de Mineralogie 8111/etincie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
black botryoidal hematite from a working strip iron mine at Brookwood, Tuscaloosa Co., Ala. ALASKA—Some of...brilliant green zaratite. COLORADO—"At the Brooklyn mine and adjacent prospects in the Red Mountain range...visited the dumps of the Eagle-Picher Mine and the TriState Mine. We found galena, pyrite, marcasite,...Elizabethtown, Bartholomew Co., Ind. IOWA—From a coal strip mine near Melrose (Monroe Co.), Iowa, we have a specimen...made in the Tri-State District. Supposed to be in a mine which had been worked for 30 years and this was
Report (issue)
and good specimens have come from the Manzanita mine. Imperial County: The mud volcanoes near Volcano...mineral. gypsum have been found in the Defiance mine. Kern County On both sides of the San Joaquin Valley...district. Lake County: At the Sulphur Bank quicksilver mine, situated on Clear Lake, a very interesting deposit... mony mines has also been found in the Buffalo mine and in the anti- San Emidio Mountains, of the...Alisal mine on El of Salinas, in the foothills of the Gabilan range, W. P. Blake^^^. This mine contained
Book (edition)
(12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page 117 Transpose...instructive specimens, especially the rarer sulfo salts of Peru. John van ltallie- lover of nature and scholar of...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely... Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores...intergrown with clausthalite in a calcite matrix at Cerro de Cacheu ta, Mendoza, Argentina. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH:
Report (issue)
considerable amounts in the wall rock at the Argonaut mine, Josephson (32). County: It is found in the copper-bearing...occurs in brecciated tuff duced at the Leviathan mine, Leviathan Peak of Markleeville, W. W. Bradley (35)...deposited by solfataric action occurs in the Defiance mine. an area of several acres, 9 miles east of Coso...interesting deposit at the Sulphur Bank quicksilver mine on Clear Lake was described by Le Conte and Rising...occasionally occurs in large balls filling cavities mine of Champion Sillimanite, Incorporated, on the western
Book
effects, for instance the sulfates rich in water melanterite, FeS04 . 7 HzO, which transforms between 85 and...lying close together. The amounts of gypsum, melanterite and goslarite differ from the standard amount...2Mg(S04)· 2 H 2O Astrakanite Na 2Mg (S04h ·4 H 2O Melanterite, FeS04 ·7H 2O Goslarite, ZnS0 4 ·7H 2O Mirabilite...between 530 and 700° C due to the dehydration and the de- Kaolinites 65 composition of the structure,...(0.4) 808 (0.1) 910 (0.5) Palygorskite, Midway Mine, Florida 160 (0.8) 285 (0.2) 316 (0.1) 482 509
Book (edition)
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...es: CW DB DE DG DJ DK DM DO DP DS EB EO EE FM GD GG GH GM Arnold Hampson David Baker Ben De Witt William...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)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...figure caption code. Arnold Hampson David Baker Ben De Witt William Larson Carlos Barbosa Cal and Kerith...Mines cw Charles and Marcelle Weber DB Dan Behnke DE Demetrios Pohl DG Richard Graeme DJ D. K. Jones Douglas...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely
Journal (issue)
by P. M. Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia .........................COVER: ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo...break to collect minerals at the famous Red Cloud mine. Everyone had fun on the trip, and Graham found...after three semesters to pursue an opportunity to mine placer gold near Quartzsite. He also bought and...made many collecting trips back to the Red Cloud mine in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996 he managed
Report (issue)
Pegmatite gem area of southern California 46 Cerro Gordo 49 History and development of the California...stone hammers and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Mining Bureau reported at about the...tools, found partly in the caves and largely in the mine pits are carefully wrought and polished from hard... the most important, was the famous New Almaden mine, near San Jose, and the other, Last Chance Peak
Report (issue)
specimens have come from the Manzanita mine, and also from the Elgin mine. Imperial County: The mud volcanoes...fluorite and gypsum have been found in the Defiance mine. .A small deposit is reported in the mountains east...Spriiijrs. Native sulpluir at 11 the SuiLshiue mine. Last Chance ^lountains. Kern County: On both...district. Lake County: At the Sulphur P>ank quicksilver mine, situated on Clear Lake, a very interesting deposit...east of Vaughn. It has been found in the Buffalo mine and antimony mines of the San Emidio Mountains
Report (issue)
mineral localities, with the minerals found at each mine or locality. Most mining districts and mineral localities...whole, along with those for which the specific area (mine, for instance) is not known. Other minerals, however...powellite, pyrite. Black Rock mine - specular hematite. Galena mine - galena. Iron Mountain Pass deposits...deposits - hematite. Skylark mine - azurite, calcite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper, cuprite, diopside...c1inozoisi te, tourmaline, tremolite, wollastonite. Cave mine - anglesite, aragonite, argentite, aurichalcite
Book (chapter)
hydroxylapatite, Thrush 368 (1968). earth of Kaffe = sepiolite, de Fourestier 99 (1999). earth stone = amber, Read 75...Bates & Jackson 205 (1987). earthy alum = aluminite, de Fourestier 99 (1999). earthy bitumen = bitumen, Egleston...446 (1964). écume de loup = hübnerite or ferberite, Dana 7th II, 1064 (1951). écume de manganèse = pyrolusite...pyrolusite, de Fourestier 99 (1999). écume de mer = sepiolite, Dana 6th, 680 (1892). écume de terre = calcite...vesuvianite, Dana 6th, 477 (1892). Egerin = aegirine, de Fourestier 100 (1999). Egersalz = mirabilite, Chudoba
Book (volume)
W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY...banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions...States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS...Smithsonite, Strontianite, Witherite; e the Minerva No. 1 Mine, area minerals and also noted fluorescent minerals⎯Alstonite...ROSICLARE: c area mines, especially Ozark Mahoning mine⎯Calcite crystals, Fluorite (blue, yellow, purple
Book (volume)
W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY...banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions...States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS...Smithsonite, Strontianite, Witherite; e the Minerva No. 1 Mine, area minerals and also noted fluorescent minerals⎯Alstonite...ROSICLARE: c area mines, especially Ozark Mahoning mine⎯Calcite crystals, Fluorite (blue, yellow, purple
Book
collected and prospected in nearly every state and province in the United States and Canada. A Fel¬ low of...always one that has been well opened, such as a mine, a quarry, road or railroad cut, or a cliff. Fresh...wrapped with the specimens. The locality should be de¬ scribed as completely as possible. Unidentified...are too heavy for proper handling. A layer of excelsior, straw, hay, grass, Spanish moss, coarse shavings...them should be filled with excelsior. Then add another layer of excelsior, a layer of specimens, and
Book
collected and prospected in nearly every state and province in the United States and Canada. A Fellow of the...always one that has been well opened, such as a mine, a quarry, road or railroad cut, or a cliff. Fresh...wrapped with the specimens. The locality should be de- scribed as completely as possible. Unidentified...are too heavy for proper handling. A layer of excelsior, straw, hay, grass, Spanish moss, coarse shavings...them should be filled with excelsior. Then add another layer of excelsior, a layer of specimens, and
 
Mineral and/or Locality  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: April 20, 2024 01:25:33
Go to top of page