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Chrysocolla from
Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Project
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Clinoclase3 photos of Chrysocolla associated with Clinoclase at this locality.
Brochantite2 photos of Chrysocolla associated with Brochantite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:390811
Long-form Identifier:1:3:390811:2
GUID (UUID V4):cc514846-a865-43a7-ab42-035304517c11
Localities for Chrysocolla in this Region
Emma Luisa Mine, Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
98(7)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: El Guanaco mine, northern Chile. 8.420 (100), 4.210 (64), 4.322 (21)...19 15.80 36.05 16.96 100.00 (1) El Guanaco mine, northern Chile; average electron microprobe analysis...epithermal deposit hosted by felsic rocks (El Guanaco mine), weathered in an arid and Mg-rich environment...conichalcite, olivenite, chrysocolla, brochantite, quartz, enargite (Chile); quartz, dolomite, chalcopyrite...Distribution: From the El Guanaco mine, ~93 km east of Taltal and 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, 2nd Region, northern
Report (issue)
D(meas.) = 3.71 D(calc.) = 3.96 (Morocco); 4.03(Chile) Optical Properties: Semitransparent. Color: Dark...1 α = 113.58(6)° X-ray Powder Pattern: Arhbar mine, Morocco. 4.57 (100), 4.51 (90), 3.72 (60), 2.603...24 [7.49] 100.08 46.61 7.92 100.01 (1) Arhbar mine, Morocco; by electron microprobe supplemented by...01Co0.01)Σ=0.99(AsO4)1.02(OH)2.92. (2) El Guanaco mine, Chile; by electron microprobe supplemented by FTIR...(Arhbar mine, Morocco); chrysocolla, brochantite, olivenite, iodargyrite, dolomite (Emma Louisa mine, Chile);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arsenate mineral species from the El Guanaco Mine, near Taltal, Chile: Description and crystal structure...from the El Guanaco Mine, around 93 km east of Taltal and 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, 2nd Region...Region, Northern Chile. The mineral occurs as blue to pale blue prismatic to acicular crystals up to 0.7 mm...association with arhbarite, conichalcite, olivenite, chrysocolla, brochantite, quartz and enargite. The crystals...mineral, crystal structure, akrochordite, El Guanaco Mine, Chile, Taghouni, Morocco. Introduction In 1997
Report (issue)
9.65 Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Chuquicamata, Chile. 9.60 (10), 3.04 (10), 4.30 (8), 1.71 (8), 6.85...16 0.90 Total 100.00 100.00 (1) Chuquicamata, Chile; recalculated to 100% after deduction of insoluble...pseudomalachite, torbernite, chrysocolla, gypsum, calcite, Distribution: In Chile, in Antofagasta, from Chuquicamata;...Fortuna mine, east of Baquedano; as large crystals from Mantos Blancos; at the Santa Catalina mine, Sierra...Sierra Gorda district; and from the El Guanaco mine, near Taltal. In Australia, from the Lake Boga granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper arsenate, Cu2(OH)AsO4·6H2O, from the Arhbar mine, Morocco. Due to the very small grain size no crystallographic...type material and of new finds from the El Guanaco mine, Chile, is based on Rietveld refinement of X-ray...with the formula Cu2(OH)AsO4·6H2O from the Arhbar mine, Bou Azzer, Morocco (Schmetzer et al., 1982), where...the El Guanaco gold mine, near East Cat ali na Station, 93 km east of Taltal, Antofagasta, Chile (Färber...microprobe analyses of arhbarite from the El Guanaco mine surprisingly gave a Cu:As ratio of ~2.3:1. Neither
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the Koashva open pit of the Vostochnyi apatite mine, Khibiny, with aegirine, microcline, lamprophyllite...copper tin sulfide from the El Guanaco gold deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie–...covellite, was discovered at in the Chilena mine at the El Guanaco Au deposit (25°06′22″S 69°32′10″W), in...Atacama desert ~100 km ENE of Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The El Guanaco is an epithermal deposit...alunite, jarosite, olivenite, and scorodite. El Guanaco is famous by secondary Cu-Al arsenates and sulfate
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Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Conichalcite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb Otjikoto Region, Namibia A n article appeared...Conichalcite on malachite, 10.5 cm across, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Fine spherules...green crusts of fibrous spheres at the Cap Garonne mine, Le Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France...across and associated with chrysocolla and cuprite has come from the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden-Württemberg...Figure 2. Conichalcite with azurite from the Clara mine, OberTsumeb conichalcite is fibrous spherical or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile Geothermal Center of Excellence (CEGA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago...Santiago, Chile 3 Department 4 Eion Cameron Geochemical Inc., Carp, Ontario, Canada 5 Department 6 Department...profile at the Chuquicamata deposit in northern Chile, where anomalous concentrations of this element...extremely arid environments such as desert areas of Chile, Australia, Arizona, Iran, and Kazakhstan, among...et al., 2010). In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, iodide (I−) and iodate (IO−3) minerals have been
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
Journal (issue)
goudmijn in het Guanaco district, op ongeveer 100 km ten noordoosten van Taltal, Antofagasta, Chili. Verder...Wheal Gorland, Wheal Maid, Gwennap, Penberthy Croft mine en Saint-Hilary). Het werd recent (als je 1987 nog...Corporation) in het Guanaco district, op ongeveer 100 km ten noordoosten van Taltal, Antofagasta, Chili, maar...brochantiet, ceruléiet (type-vindplaats), chenevixiet, chrysocolla, dolomiet, enargiet, gold, iodargyriet, mansfieldiet...(AsO4)]2(OH)6 (olijfachtig groen), waarvan de Emma Louisa mine de enige en type-vindplaats is. Dit mineraal is
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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...size, associated species), the location (county, mine or prospect. U.S.G.S. quadrangle, Township. Range
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were some of the words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army...Army had closed the area in the 1940s. The "mine" was really a prospect as it consisted of a trench cut through
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even tho ugh on a small scale. The Storforshei iron mine in the Dunderlandsdalen is still in operation, working...sold as souvenir in a few places. The Mofje llet Mine, a once considerable but now depleted ase metal...locality is the El Guanaco Mine, 93 km east of Taltal, Antofagasta Province. Chile. It forms beautiful...Richterveld pegmatite, Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. This amazing 3 inch...purchased from George Stevens fro m Schwan.:walder Mine, Raston Buttes District. Huerfago County. Col o
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MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite, 5 111111...Veta Negra, Chile Page 2: Anorpiment on D!piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page...CCM CM DANR EJM JMPS MM MP NJMA ZRMO Republic province prefecture county departement departamento
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and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...Carbocretes Oxicretes chrysocolla hemimorphite chrysocolla chrysocolla plancheite silicate Silicacretes...CT opaline-CT cristobalite amorphous matter chrysocolla plancheite hemimorphite silicate Silicacretes...Baumgarten et al. 2008 Dill et al. 1997a Cajamarca Province Peru Palache et al. 1951 Malpelo Island, Colombia...Maksaev et al. 2007; Singer et al. 2008 Tarapaca Chile Cu porphyry-type Cu volcanicBouzari & Clark 2002;
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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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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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rang, and mills thumped. The wind played among the mine headframes, making them moan. An article in the...at the Ramona mine on the southwestern slope of Bull Hill, next to the War Eagle mine. A later report...report revealed the shaft at the Happy Year mine, straight as a straw, had reached a depth of 350 feet by...Type Locality in Morocco, the Arhbar (or Aghbar) Mine. It usually has a dark blue color, a vitreous to...only found in two localities, the Type and in Guanaco in Chile. The “strange” name for the second mineral
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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)...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...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION
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Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
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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...a seri Qlh·enite. compare E\Clte. Chanårcillo. 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...(Y,Ca)Cu6(AsO.)i(OH).-3H1O. hex., Bou-Skourcoppcr mine, Ouarzazatc. Morocco,SS, 1447 □ Mixite group AgrelUte
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showing early mining methods, a case of antique mine lamps, worldwide uranium and rare earth ores, gold... e tem er cto er Calcite, 24.1 cm, Verchniy mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia. Jeff Scovil photo. Famous...T pe localit or ma hrebite: the opencast A hbar mine in November 2005. The miners settlement is seen...es avreau photo. Fi re ead rame o the Bouismas mine, re-opened in 2003 and nown or recent discoveries...Fi re A shi t chan e at the A oudal mine, November 2005. This mine has been nown since 2002 or excellent
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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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