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Brochantite from
Cerro Colorado Mine, Pozo Almonte, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Brochantite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chrysocolla4 photos of Brochantite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brochantite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerro Colorado Mine, Pozo Almonte, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:364379
Long-form Identifier:1:3:364379:2
GUID (UUID V4):aab574f5-3404-420b-8982-1a432eb8493f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Supergene Orebody of the Cerro Colorado Porphyry Copper Deposit, I Región, Northern Chile FARHAD BOUZARI† AND...Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Abstract The 51.8 Ma Cerro Colorado porphyry Cu(-Mo) deposit is situated at 20º...Cordillera Occidental. Supergene processes at Cerro Colorado generated a complex weathering profile that...precursors. The Upper Supergene ore is dominated by brochantite and atacamite with relics of chalcocite, but...the initiation of the Incaic orogeny in northern Chile. An age of 35.26 ± 0.68 (2σ) Ma for alunite associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...environments. It is commonly associated with cuprite, brochantite, antlerite, linarite, caledonite, malachite,...instrumentation from the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine at Balmat, New York, and in association with granophyllite...Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey, and the Wheatley mine near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The copper mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dredmetersof the 12 majorporphyrycopperdeposits in Chile was substantiated furtherby Alpersand Brimhall ...supergene alunitefromthe Eseondida porphyry copper province. Indeed,perhaps onlytwoof thesemajordepositsdeposit(Fig...Salvador(Gustafsonand Hunt, 1975) in northern Chile Chile,duringthe late Oligocene to earlyMioceneinterval...0361-0128/96/1809/164-1655.00 164 CHILEAN Cu PROVINCE: OXIDATION & ENRICHMENT in controlling anyagedifferences...3' ½'*• I ß CHILE ?5 ø ,,,,)ARGENTINA ) 43.31 23 SanMiguel de Tucum•n (CERRO CAMPANA)I:::•C
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the oxide zone of copper deposits in northern Chile: involvement of deep formation waters? Eion M. Cameron...deposits in northern Chile, whereas in similar deposits elsewhere, it is rare. In Chile, it has generally...Supergene enrichment of copper deposits in northern Chile extended over a long period, 44 to 9 Ma, being terminated...within the stability fields of atacamite and brochantite, the two minerals that comprise the oxide zone...Keywords Atacamite . Copper deposits . Northern Chile Editorial handling: B. Lehmann E. M. Cameron (*)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF HYPOGENE AND SUPERGENE MINERALIZATION IN THE CERRO VERDE-SANTA ROSA PORPHYRY Cu-Mo CLUSTER, AREQUIPA...JORGE GUILLÉN B. Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A., Asiento Minero Cerro Verde-Uchumayo, Avenida Alfonso...Casilla 299, Arequipa, Peru Abstract The contiguous Cerro Verde and Santa Rosa porphyry copper deposits are...dates of 61.8 ± 0.7 (2σ) and 62.0 ± 1.1 Ma for Cerro Verde, and 62.2 ± 2.9 Ma for Santa Rosa, representing...identified by multiple analyses of a sample from Cerro Verde comprising alunite partially replaced by natroalunite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Brochantite Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi]...Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green...acicular copper minerals were routinely labeled brochantite, a seemingly inexhaustible supply of such specimens...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times... and although the once implied abundance of brochantite may be burned permanently into the minds of older
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...halogenide (Cl-Br-J) Halcretes anglesite tsumebite brochantite chalcanthite copiapite gypsum anhydrite sulfate... Halcretes apatite phosphate Phoscretes brochantite linarite chalcanthite jarosite. REEwoodhouseitesvanbergite...woodhouseite svanbergite alunogen aluminite alunite brochantite chalcantite gypsum alunite sulfate (plus APS...assemblage / ore type Primary mineralization Cerro de Pasco Peru Pb-Cu-Zn-Ag- tenorite Bi replacement/
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of copper at a porphyry system, Atacama Desert, Chile: Cu isotope evidence Carlos Palacios & Olivier Rouxel...Cu-Mo porphyry in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Chalcopyrite displays a restricted range of δ65Cu...Atacama Desert . Chile C. Palacios (*) : M. Reich Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla...Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile e-mail: cpalacio@ing.uchile.cl O. Rouxel Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry...the Cu deposits of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, the meteoric supergene enrichment stage covered
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/...District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...uranium and vanadium deposits; "mine fire" minerals at the United Verde mine in Jerome; and Arizona meteorites...Research and Development Commission, Grand Junction, Colorado American Museum of Natural History, New York Arizona-Sonora
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have also specimens of oak and firwood from the mine, given me by Mr. Osborne, in which a similar action... about one-third of the whole production of the mine, is neither the richest nor the poorest of the mass;...Much of the export ore has a thin coating of Brochantite on it---a lining of the original joints of the...materially differ. 214 a . n . COLLieS os the mine known as San Dionisio. Here it occm's in considerable...also on the hills known as the Cerro de los Vacas, Cerro Colorado, and Cerro Salomon. It is frequently botryoidal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have also specimens of oak and firwood from the mine, given me by Mr. Osborne, in which a similar action... about one-third of the whole production of the mine, is neither the richest nor the poorest of the mass;...Much of the export ore has a thin coating of Brochantite on it---a lining of the original joints of the...materially differ. 214 a . n . COLLieS os the mine known as San Dionisio. Here it occm's in considerable...also on the hills known as the Cerro de los Vacas, Cerro Colorado, and Cerro Salomon. It is frequently botryoidal
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol...Atacamite and anglesite Aurichalcite Boleite Brochantite Brochantite with azurite Caledonite Carnotite and weeksite...Yedlinite 53 59 61 62 66 67 67 70 78 Bermanite Brochantite Butlerite Calcite Cerussite Cerussite twin Cerussite
Book (edition)
zy MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County...District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...uranium and vanadium deposits; “mine fire” minerals at the United Verde mine in Jerome; and Arizona meteorites...Develop- AM ASDM ment Commission, Grand Junction, Colorado American Museum of Natural History, New York Arizona-Sonora
Book (edition)
Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...Atacamite and anglesite Aurichalcite Boleite Brochantite Brochantite with azurite Caledonite Carnotite and weeksite...Drawings Antlerite Azurite Azurite Bermanite Brochantite Butlerite Calcite Cerussite Cerussite twin Cerussite...16 PART ONE INTRODUCTION Wulfenite. Glove mine, Cottonwood Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 14:12 03 February 2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district...(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...Canyon subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume
Report (issue)
Mountain (British Columbia, Canada) and El Teniente (Chile) porphyry copper deposits.........................deposits include El Teniente and El Salvador in Chile, Bajo de la Alumbrera in Argentina, Grasberg in...regional faults such as near deposits in northern Chile (Behn and others, 2001; Gow and Walshe, 2005), central...much as about 100°C for samples from El Teniente, Chile. When binned in 10°C intervals, the median reported...several intrusive stages related to the El Salvador, Chile, porphyry copper deposit, described fluids associated
Report (issue)
467 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140 Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA 2010 Copyright © 2010, The...Permissions, 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA. GSA provides this and other forums...Inc. 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA www.geosociety.org Printed in.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Au-Ag EPITHERMAL VEIN SYSTEM, ANTOFAGASTA REGION, CHILE GIUSEPPE ARFȧ AND MARIA BONI* Dipartimento...INTRODUCTION The Antofagasta region in northern Chile hosts many of the world’s significant porphyry Cu...owned by SQM Inc. (Sociedad Quı́mica y Minera de Chile), hosts a low-sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag vein system...same area. REGIONAL GEOLOGY The Atacama Region in Chile consists of several physiographic units, which include...deposits of the Coastal Cordillera in northern Chile (Coira et al. 1982). The Paradero del Desierto Formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey, P.O. Box 25046, MS 963, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA American Exploration (Philippines)...Niño (Ph) Atlas (Ph) Aya Aya (Ph) Salatan (Ph) Cerro Verde-Santa Rosa (Pe) Kingking (Ph) Rio Blanco...Chuquicamata (Cl) Inspiration (Az) Toquepala (Pe) Cerro Colorado (Cl) Ok Tedi (PNG) El Abra (Cl) Mocoa (Co)...Locality abbreviations: Az = Arizona (USA), Cl = Chile, Co = Colombia, NM = New Mexico (USA), Pe = Peru... Thickness (m) 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 336 Peru Cerro Verde-Santa Rosa 150 Cuajone 120 Quellaveco 80 Toquepala
Report (issue)
1. A.-Ore deposition and enrichment at the Magma mine, Superior, Arizona: Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Trans....flakes at the Empire mine, and as small masses of wire silver, Flora Morrison mine. Bisbee district, in...chalcocite, more rarely with halloysite. Commonwealth mine, Pearce, with cerargyrite, embolite, and jarosite...at the Continental mine, as stout wires in the oxidized ore of the Old Dominion mine. Fine specimens from...of the Silver Butte mine. Graham County.-Aravaipa district, at the La Clede mine. MINERALS OF ARIZONA
Book (edition)
Leigh McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa...material was cut parallel to the grain. The Blue Ball Mine, in Gila County, has produced thousands of azurite...quantity of this material came from the United Verde Mine at Jerome, GEMSTONES ANDLAPIDARYMATERIALS OF ARIZONA...Gila County. The Keystone Mine, the Inspiration Mine, and the Old Dominion Mine have all produced good gem-quality...the following about the material from the Keystone Mine: "It varies in color from bright to pale blue, bluish-green
Report (issue)
Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral Park;; Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty;...Mountains; carries gold and some silver at McCabe mine. ASBESTOS (chrysotile ). Coconino County, associated...copper). Cochise County, was abundant at Copper Queen mine, Bisbee district. The finest specimens of Azurite"in...Azurite"in many museums have come from this mine. Gila and Pinal Counties, rare in Globe district. Greenlee...County, as impregnation of porphyry at John Kay mine, Mineral Park. 4 A rizona State Bureau of Mines
Report (issue)
flakes at the Empire mine, and as small masses of wire silver, Flora Morrison mine. Bisbee district, in...chalcocite, more rarely with halloysite. Commonwealth mine, Pearce, with cerargyrite, embolite, and jarosite...ca1citeat the Continental mine, as stout wires in the oxidized ore of the Old Dominion mine. Fine specimens from...of the Silver Butte mine, Graham County-Ar avaipa district, at the La Clede mine. Maricopa County-From...Picacho District. Mohave County-Cerbat Range, Distaff mine, as chunks of several pounds' weight in the deeper
Report (issue)
978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado USA © 2009 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613...Ph08pl,ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...and Erica Van Pelt Lithographie, LLC • Denver, Colorado 60° 10 B R A S I L 14 PAZ /LAApolo 0 CRUZ...in Oruro ... 26 BY ROBERT B. COOK The Morococala Mine ...............................................
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....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
 
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