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Covellite from
Turin mine, El Orito district, Huasco Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Turin mine, El Orito district, Huasco Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:535514
Long-form Identifier:1:3:535514:3
GUID (UUID V4):5e155297-f0c0-4f9a-8f63-b16fdd051f67
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
rece~tly bEen reidcntified Mina Pedro de Valdivia as Chile) Cumengeite. lem f3.60 C261 AGARDITE (Y) Atlas...ARSENIOSIDERITE orange brown crusts on Hidalgoite (Gold Hill Mine Tooele County Utah USA) lxl f2.5O lx2 f5.OO 2x2...purple-brown crystalline masses (Colebrook Hill Mine,Roseberry, Tasmania) lxl fl.5O lx2 f3 2x2 f6.OO...BOKITE black to dark brown masses (Monumnt No 2 Mine Apache County 1/2 x 1/2 f3.5O lxl f5 C266 DEFERNITE...C269 CHABAZITE good covering location. (Ramsley Mine lxl fl.5O lx2 f3 of glassy micros Devon) 2x2 f6
Book
: i ye "Pe 7 a pre \ 2 , ' : 8 lilbap el ' ae “ay oe ar DISCARDED Gems« Minerals Richmond...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm
Journal (issue)
Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...Elba pegmatite minerals, the silver minerals, covellite, phosgenite and other lead minerals from the Sardinian...chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE POST-WAR...exploring the underground workings of an historic gold mine in the Brusson area, Val d' Ayas, western Alps.
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periods of stability PLANET | 114 San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 om are uncommon...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26x 16 cm 22...* 20 x 18 x 14. cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1x 1 om Acicular...hematite with iridescent limonite coating, Parcocha Mine, Bilbao, Spain * 19 x 19 x 16 cm Goethite, Tintic...Brazil + 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaragu, Minas Gerais, Brazil + 12 x 19 x 6 em
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nuggets Include one of 153kg (3371b), found in Chile, and one of 93kg (2051b), found in Hill End (Australia)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...turn, may be altered to malachite, azurite and covellite. Good examples of pseudohexagonal crystals come...(Montana, USA), Bisbee (Arizona, USA), Chuquicamata (Chile), Tsumeb (Namibia), Peru and Russia. Colour: black...quantities are mined in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia and Zambia. Colour: copper-red or bronze
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nuggets Include one of 153kg (3371b), found in Chile, and one of 93kg (2051b), found in Hill End (Australia)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...turn, may be altered to malachite, azurite and covellite. Good examples of pseudohexagonal crystals come...(Montana, USA), Bisbee (Arizona, USA), Chuquicamata (Chile), Tsumeb (Namibia), Peru and Russia. Colour: black...quantities are mined in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia and Zambia. Colour: copper-red or bronze
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stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket...1886, when he went underground into a Cornish tin mine in search of crystals. During his lifetime he collected
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stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket...1886, when he went underground into a Cornish tin mine in search of crystals. During his lifetime he collected
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stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its...1886, when he went underground into a Cornish tin mine in search of crystals. During his lifetime he collected
Book (edition)
hexagonal dipyramid (first MINERALS graphite covellite and second order) molybdenite dihexagonal prism... A sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed...that a collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will...are very common in many deposits (USSR, Zambia, Chile). In Europe, small deposits are found near Pisa...not fine crystals, are found at Chaharcillo (Chile), Co- Ontario (Canada), Broken Hill (Australia)
Journal (issue)
miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...particularly in the Ojuela result of some chemical Mine in Durango State. reaction that has occurred Significant... and in large quantities of zinc. Chanarcillo, Chile. Adamite is a member of the arsenates group. It...crystals (below) come from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec Province, Canada. M N E R A L s AL )> ::0 m ALLANITE...fibrous crystals of anthophyl/ite from Brosso, Turin (Italy). Although this is one of the rarer amphibole
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...352 in citation of analysis no. for Quespisiza, Chile, read Quespisiza, 3, Peru. 354 and r on the...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg
Journal (issue)
0026-4628 ‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ..............................P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .................................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy
corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 cotunnite 22, 22 covellite 8, 8 crandallite 67 crocidolite 100 crocoite 62...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...or industrial purposes. panied by bornite and covellite. Fine pseudohexagonal crystals come from Redruth...Montana, and the Copper River district of Alaska. A much rarer mineral is covellite, CuS, hexagonal, in lamellar
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corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 biotite 80, 104 covellite 8, 8 betafite 28 binnite 11 bismuthides 8 bismuthinite...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...commercial or industrial purposes. Chalcocite, covellite, bornite Chalcocite, Cu,8, orthorhombic, rarely...it is frequently accom- panied by bornite and covellite. Fine pseudohexagonal crystals come from Redruth
Catalog/List
green micro' s and crusts on white Barytes. (Clara Mine Wolfach, W.Germany) 1-tolins £3.50 19 4 ALABANDITE...white rhombic crystal about 7mm across. (Amelia Mine, Santa Rcsa, B.C. Mexico) £3.60 21 8 ALM&�DINE...AMARANTITE, rich yellow brown masses. (Amarillo Chile) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7.00 28 401 ft.MAZONITE (Green...cellular mass, possible minor Fluorite (Ho::'..mhush Mine, Corn wall) 1x2 60p 2x2 £1.20 2x4 £2.50 APATITE...cryst::i.lline mass with some matrix. (Champion¡ Mine, \:.hi te Mountains, California) ½ins £3 38 39
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonate rocks of the Washington Camp-Duquesne district. Eruption of 73 to 68 Ma volcanic rocks in the...deposits in Paleozoic carbonate rocks at the Flux mine (~71 Ma). An event at 65 to 62 Ma is marked by emplacement...a Cu-Mo breccia deposit at Red Hill (Four Metals mine), both of which formed in large-volume quartz monzonite...respectively. Plutons and mineral deposits in the Pima district, Arizona, which includes the porphyry Cu-Mo deposits...porphyry Cu province (e.g., Titley, 1982; Leveille and Stegen, 2012), and segments of the province contain
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corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 cotunnite 22, 22 covellite 8, 8 crandallite 67 crocidolite 100 crocoite 62...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ¡elements Chemical elernents found...especially near Ki1nberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimber/ite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Pren1ier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to
Journal (issue)
Bureau of Geology and Mining Research (France), Turin University (Italy), Belgrade University (Serbia)...News —————————————————Page Page 3 The Tenderfoot Mine: Mining Myth or Lost Subterranean Treasure Fred... and rare earths. The best known mine is the Red Cloud Copper mine, located on the southern portion of...stuff of legends is the Tenderfoot Mine. Early reports of the alleged mine working excited the local miners...as it would mineral collectors today….if only the mine could be located! sold to a wealthy Santa Fe gentleman
Journal (issue)
tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo...METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott...for the Mineralogical Record: on the Port Radium District in the Northwest Territories (1989) and on the...the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's specialties...west of the Mackenzie River Delta. The Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island was another prolific locality pioneered
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crystallise in this system, notably beryl, pyrrhotite, covellite, molybdenite, apatite, pyromorphite, mimetite...occurs in this habit. This specimen, from the Harz district of Germany (17 mm), is covered with a layer of...Ritter von Hauer. This specimen, from the Destricella mine in Sicily (7 mm), has a combination of forms typical...apatite be noted, in the extent Hexagonal system. Covellite, from Calabona, Sardinia (75 mm), occurring as...system. Another form of calcite, from the Bigrigg Mine in Cumberland, England (20 mm). This shows another
Journal (volume)
Mexico. Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be...available. The main source was once the Kongsberg Mine in Norway, but this closed in 1956. Man has, however...Clear crystals of anglesite on galena found in a mine near Cagliari, Sardinia. ► Anglesite crystals on...the mineral can be found in the Derbyshire Peak District, especially in the regions surrounding the towns...finest autunite crystals come from the Daybreak Mine, near Spokane in Washington State. In addition,
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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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CAPTIONS Page 1: Cuprite crystals from the Ray mine, Arizona Pages 2-3: Liroconite from PERFECT CLEAVAGE...typical in such minerals as actinolite, kyanite, covellite, molybdenite and tremolite. Tabular A great number...rotated at 60° from one another. The Floristella mine has produced the best specimens of celestine, with...tradition, the island of Elba is looked upon as a kind of El Dorado, both by collectors from all over the world—for...perfectly formed crystals, as in this specimen from a mine at Niccioleta, Tuscany, Italy. Hauerite Pyrite
Report (issue)
Argentina • • • • Bolivia • • • • • Brazil • • • • • Chile • • • • • Peru • • • • • . Venezuela • • • • Burma...Selection Trust Ltd.; Rhokana Corporation Ltd.; Rhoanglo Mine Services Ltd.; Anglo-American Corporation of South...deposits and is an important mineral of the Cobalt district, Ontario; it also 9ccurs in Quebec, Morocco, Mexico...transferred by mechanical means from the pit or mine to the mill for grinding prior to concentration...page 12 PLATE III rPhoto: i nterna tional ,fllick el Co. (.MoJid ) Ltd.J 1. COBALT OXIDE Rf.[)UCTION U
 
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