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Tellurium from
Tambo Mine, Vicuña, Elqui Province, Coquimbo, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Tellurium
Formula:Te
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tellurium data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tambo Mine, Vicuña, Elqui Province, Coquimbo, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:542816
Long-form Identifier:1:3:542816:8
GUID (UUID V4):f29397e7-2b3a-4c29-82e0-964ac866c954
Localities for Tellurium in this Region
Wendy pit, Tambo Mine, Vicuña, Elqui Province, Coquimbo, Chile
Nearest other occurrences of Tellurium
1.8km (1.1 miles) Wendy pit, Tambo Mine, Vicuña, Elqui Province, Coquimbo, Chile
5.7km (3.5 miles) El Indio deposit, Elqui Province, Coquimbo, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: Tambo mine, El Indio-Tambo mining property, Coquimbo Province, Chile. 7.153 (100), 8...14.48 100.00 (1) Tambo mine, El Indio-Tambo mining property, Coquimbo Province, Chile; average of 10 electron...open pit, Tambo mine, El Indio-Tambo mining property, Coquimbo Province, Andes Mountains, Chile. Name: By...By a prefix, the name indicates the Te4+ (tellurium) analogue of mandarinoite. Type Material: Natural...tellurite mineral from the El Indio-Tambo mining property, Andes Mountains, Chile. Can. Mineral., 55(1), 21-28
Report (issue)
38 22.28 7.45 10.89 100.00 (1) Tambo mine, Coquimbo Province, Chile; average electron microprobe analysis...gold, native tellurium. Distribution From the Tambo mine (Windy pit), Coquimbo Province, Chile. Name: For...For the Tambo mine, where the studied material was collected. Type Material: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Report (issue)
61.45 23.05 7.70 7.80 100.00 (1) Tambo mine, Coquimbo Province, Chile; average electron microprobe analysis...baryte, gold, native tellurium. Distribution From the Tambo mine, Coquimbo Province, Chile. Name: Prefix, meta
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TELLURITE MINERAL FROM THE EL INDIO-TAMBO MINING PROPERTY, ANDES MOUNTAINS, CHILE MALCOLM E. BACK§,* Department...Wendy open pit, Tambo mine, El Indio-Tambo mining property, Coquimbo Province, Chile. The ideal endmember...hydrothermally altered. The mineralization in the Tambo area is characterized by high-level epithermal veins...tellurite, crystal structure, El Indio-Tambo mining property, Chile. § Corresponding author e-mail address:...Wendy open pit, Tambo mine, at the El Indio-Tambo mining property, Coquimbo Province, located in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new tellurite minerals from the Tambo mine, Coquimbo Province, Chile. The two minerals transform to each...new mineral species, tellurite, Tambo mine, Coquimbo Province, Chile, crystal structure, electron-microprobe...describe two new mineral species from the Tambo mine, Chile. The amount of H2O in these two minerals is...tamboite and metatamboite after the Tambo mine, Coquimbo Province, Chile. The holotype is deposited in the...excellent analysis of the structural architecture of tellurium oxycompounds that provides a framework for future
Report (issue)
a = 11.011(5) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tambo mine, Chile. 3.175 (100), 1.658 (45), 1.944 (44), 2.749...81.74 1.11 8.30 0.38 Total 100.20 (1) Tambo mine, Chile; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2 O3...Very rare in the brecciated oxidized zone of a tellurium-bearing hydrothermal gold Association: Alunite...Wendy open pit, El Indio-Tambo district, east of La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile. Name: Honors Phillip Walford...from the Wendy open pit, El Indio – Tambo mining property, Chile. Can. Mineral., 37, 1261–1268. (2) (2000)
Report (issue)
secondary mineral formed in the zone of oxidation of tellurium-bearing precious metal deposits. Association:...Spain); tellurium, mackayite, emmonsite (near El Indio, Chile); emmonsite, sonoraite (Joe mine, Arizona...Almerı́a Province, Spain. In the Wendy open pit, El Indio-Tambo district, east of La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile
Report (issue)
Occurrence: An alteration product formed from earlier tellurium minerals in the oxide zone of some hydrothermal...precious metal deposits. Association: pyrite. Tellurium, tellurite, rodalquilarite, mackayite, sonoraite...Creek, Teller Co., Colorado; in the Toughnut-Empire mine and between the Joe and Grand Central mines, Tombstone...Mexico; at the Mohawk mine, Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nevada; from the Clinton mine, Lawrence Co., South...Moctezuma (Bambolla) mine, 12 km south of Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. At the El Plomo mine, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Report (issue)
5H2 O. 4+ 3+ (4) Fe Te2 O5 (OH). Occurrence: of tellurium. Of rare occurrence in the oxidized zone of Au–Te...deposits, an alteration product Association: Tellurium, tellurite, emmonsite, rodalquilarite, poughite...quartz. Distribution: In the USA, at the Mohawk mine, and between the Jumbo and Clermont mines, Goldfield...Toughnut-Empire mine, Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona; at a prospect near the Lone Pine mine, Wilcox district...the Klondike mine, Saguache Co., Colorado. In Mexico, at the Moctezuma (Bambolla) mine and the San Miguel
Report (issue)
Total 99.62 100.00 100.30 100.00 (1) Zavodinskii mine, Kazakhstan. (2) San Sebastián, Mexico. (3) Boteş...altaite, petzite, empressite, rickardite, gold, tellurium, pyrite, galena, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite. Distribution:...near Zlatna. In Kazakhstan, from the Zavodinskii mine, near Ziryanovsk, Altai Mountains. In the Bereznyakov...From Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. In the Emperor mine, Vatukoula, and in the Tuvatu Au–Ag–Te deposit,...Phillipines. In Chile, from the Condorriaco mine, near Coquimbo, and in the Wendy open pit, El Indio-Tambo district
Report (issue)
c = 6.1066(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Good Hope Mine, Colorado, USA. 2.07 (100), 3.36 (60), 2.55 (40)... (2) 40.0 60.9 Total 99.95 100.9 (1) Good Hope mine, Colorado, USA; corresponds to Cu2.76 Te2.00 . (2)...Te-bearing mineral deposits. Association: Vulcanite, tellurium, cameronite, petzite, sylvanite, berthierite,...at the Good Hope mine, Vulcan, Gunnison Co. [TL]; also at the Empress Josephine mine, Bonanza district...Little Joe shaft, Tombstone, Cochise Co. In the Horne mine, Noranda, Quebec, Canada. From the San Miguel prospect
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic fluids in the Tambo high-sulfidation deposit, El Indio–Pascua belt, Chile C.L. Deyella,*, R.O....Abstract The Tambo high-sulfidation deposit, located within the El Indio–Pascua belt in Chile, produced...and was contemporaneous with the volcanism of the Tambo Formation. Alunite from this stage of alteration...aluniteFhematite-quartz veins that crosscut the breccias in the Tambo area. Analyses of fluid-inclusion gas from alunite...belt; Tambo deposit; Acid-sulfate; Stable isotopes; Epithermal; Gold 1. Introduction The Tambo high-sulfidation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF WINSTANLEYITE, TiTe3O8, FROM THE GRAND CENTRAL MINE, TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA LUCA BINDI§ AND CURZIO CIPRIANI...winstanleyite from the type locality, the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Arizona, in space group I21/a3̄ to a...winstanleyite provenant de la localité type, la mine Grand Central, à Tombstone, en Arizona, dans le...analogue of the synthetic TiTe3O8 at the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Arizona. The mineral, named winstanleyite...3+,Te 6+)Te 3O 8, from the El Indio – Tambo mining property, Chile. By means of a detailed structural study
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2011; handling editor: J. Plášil 1. Introduction Tellurium oxysalt minerals are typically found in the oxidized...Roberts et al. (1997) from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah, and its structure (R1 = 7.3%)...provided the description of poughite from the Moctezuma mine, Sonora, Mexico, and Pertlik (1971) determined its...(1968) from the Rodalquilar gold deposit, Almería Province, Spain, and Dusausoy and Protas (1969) reported...present study came from a specimen from the Gold Chain mine, Tintic district, Juab County, Utah, USA, provided
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 23:14 19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms...ROCKS & MINERALS the Golden Circle mine at Sorrento and the Cline mine at Hancock, Maine, and from a vaguely...the Consolidated mine at Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia; the Barite Hill gold mine in McCormick County...rare tellurides at the inactive Reynolds or Star mine, Montgomery County, North Carolina; and possibly...mineral in the Young American mine, Goochland County, Virginia, and the Haile mine, Lancaster County, South
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Kalgoorlie in the 2.7-Ga Eastern Goldfields Province of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, occur...the Golden Mile Fault exposed on the Mt Charlotte mine 22 level. They are filled Editorial handling: B...which is attributed to a lateral decrease in peak tellurium fugacity of the late-stage hydrothermal fluid...Kalgoorlie district, located in the Eastern Goldfields Province of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton, porphyry dykes...discovery of the telluride ore in the Hidden Secret Mine close to Mt Charlotte (Simpson 1912), the scarcity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGY OF THE WENDY PIT, EL INDIOTAMBO GOLD DEPOSIT, CHILE. M. E. Back and P: C. Wnlford, Mineralogy Department...3M7. The El Indio-Tambo gold deposit is located 480 kilometers north of Santiago, Chile, 4,000 meters above...mineralogists is the presence of some rare tellurium oxysalts and tellurium oxide minerals that have been found...in the 120 ROCKS & MINERALS Wendy pit at the Tambo mine is associated with hydrothermal breccias that...include emmonsite, mackayite, and poughite; the two tellurium oxides, tellurite and paratellurite, have also
Report (issue)
Tellurium Chapter R of Critical Mineral Resources of the United States—Economic and Environmental Geology...112.4 indium 114.8 tin 118.7 antimony 121.8 tellurium 127.6 iodine 126.9 xenon 131.3 55 56 72 ...http://periodic.lanl.gov/images/periodictable.pdf. Cover. Tellurium is a critical component for the development of...of Energy Western Area Power Administration. Tellurium By Richard J. Goldfarb, Byron R. Berger, Micheal...B.R., George, M.W., and Seal, R.R., II, 2017, Tellurium, chap. R of Schulz, K.J., DeYoung, J.H., Jr.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
depositionof mineralswith progressively lower tellurium content,indicatinga decreasein fTe2over the courseof...mineralogythat are attributed to introductionof a tellurium-rich fluid into a preexistingsulfideassemblage...calaverite,and the presenceor absenceof native tellurium. Introduction gradesin gold-silvertelluridesin...in additionto goldelectrum and/or native tellurium. Reported telluIN part I of thisstudy(Afifi et al...of telluride minerals are regold, and native tellurium are difficultto decipher stricted to small concentrations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geology During the Tertiary, the Rhodope metamorphic province in Bulgaria and Greece underwent a penetrative...divalent metals (Fe + Zn) is less than 0.2 apfu and tellurium (Te4+) substitutes for Sb3+ and to a lesser extent...as was proposed for its formation in the Sungsan mine, Korea (Cho and Kim 1993). This oscillatory zoning...superficially resembles the Pascua-Lama and Tambo Au– Ag–Cu deposits, Chile (Deyell et al. 2005a, b; Chouinard...(1993) Oscillatory zoning in alunite from the Sungsan mine, Korea. N Jb Miner Mh 4:185–192 Chouinard A, Williams-Jones
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist, Volume 95, pages 1569–1573, 2010 Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California:...topology with lead-oxide halide polyhedra linked to tellurium/lead oxide groups. The mineral is named for the...Pb3Te O4Cl2, is one of seven new secondary lead-tellurium minerals discovered recently at Otto Mountain...05.956′W) is located 0.7 km northwest of the Aga mine (35° 16.399′N, 116° 05.665′W). Telluroperite is...temperatures have been used to synthesize other tellurium-bearing oxysalts (e.g., Mill’ 2009a, 2009b; Mills
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University of Florence. The sample is from the Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico and the mineral occurs...EDS chemical analyses showed only uranium and tellurium to be present. The crystal structure has been...Schmitterite, UTeO5, was found at the Moctezuma mine (Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico) by Gaines (1971) during...during a study of minerals from the Moctezuma tellurium-gold deposit. The mineral, pale straw yellow in...Florence, where it is labelled ‘‘schmitterite, Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico’’ (catalogue number 2997=I)
Journal (issue)
Fibrous Inclu ion 16 Making a Chai.n . 20 Tellurium Minerals . 24 Shops Page .....................Station Road , Chapeltown, Sheffield, S35 3XE 23 Tellurium, Te, is a comparatively rare element with a crustal...are the USA, Canada and Japan. More than 70% of tellurium is used in iron and steel production and in non-ferrous...interesring complex tellurites and tellurates. Tellurium, Tc, occurs as tl11: native "'---"-" element usually...properties are used in its idennfication. in Tellurium is found hydrothermal vein depoms and can be both
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to −11.5, respectively. The highly oxidized, tellurium-enriched hydrothermal fluid, which formed the...aikinite, and native tellurium. The Cl-bearing minerals are associated with native tellurium or Te-oxide, and...replace altaite, is a mixture between native tellurium and Pb-Cl minerals. (c) An altaite and Pb-Cl-Te...the sericite-pyrite seams and it is enriched in tellurium relative to antimony compared with the stoichiometric...tetradymite from the Bellerophon deposit is enriched in tellurium and depleted in sulfur. Native Te/Te-oxide and
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barium, arsenic, antimony, mercury, selenium and tellurium in the Moore and Monte Negro high-sulfidation epithermal...concentrations of mercury and, to a lesser extent, tellurium increase more Editorial handling: N. White S...hydrothermal solutions and partitioning of mercury and tellurium into a rising vapor phase, and it suggests that...the deposits will be anomalous in mercury and tellurium. Comparison to the Broadlands, New Zealand, hydrothermal...would be useful in genetic studies, exploration, mine planning, and environmental compliance. For example
 
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