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Chrysocolla from
Diablo mine, Ligas Negras-Cuestecilla District, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diablo mine, Ligas Negras-Cuestecilla District, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:544351
Long-form Identifier:1:3:544351:2
GUID (UUID V4):510a9176-8770-4ef7-8a24-6b68e44f7f47
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Candelaria-Punta del Cobre Iron Oxide Cu-Au(-Zn-Ag) Deposits, Chile ROBERT MARSCHIK†,* Lehrstuhl für Lagerstättenlehre...coastal batholith near Copiapó, Chile. This belt includes the large Candelaria mine and a group of middle-...middle- and small-sized mines in the Punta del Cobre district, which is located about 3 km northeast of the...alteration at Candelaria. In the Punta del Cobre district, ore in the deeper parts of the deposits is similarly...formation of specular hematite. In parts of the district, the pseudomorphic replacement of early specular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Central Atacama Province, Chile Abstract: Geologically, the central part of Atacama Province straddles...contact between the Andean batholith of western Chile and the stratified rocks to the east. Apophyses...The entire area is in the copper metallogenetic province of Ruiz and Ericksen (1962), and parts of it are...hypogene ore deposits in Chile are represented in the central part of Atacama Province. However, most of the...References cited 317 Figure 1. Index map of Atacama Province, Chile . . . 306 2. Locations of figures in Plates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Mantoverde Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold District, III Región, Chile: The Role of Regionally Derived, Nonmagmatic...CASTILLO** Anglo American Chile Ltda, Avenida Pedro de Valdivia 291, Santiago, Chile Abstract Located in...Cordillera de la Costa of northern Chile, the mines of the Mantoverde district exploit supergene oxide ore developed...geologic setting and genesis of this productive IOCG district are clarified herein through regional petrologic...g., Ferrífera), the deposits of the Mantoverde district were emplaced along the main and, more commonly
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...Hydrothermal Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 -...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...dioptase Chalcoalumite after azurite with cuprite Chrysocolla Copper Copper after cuprite Cuprite Cuprite var
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal system in the Coastal Range of Northern Chile Received: 26 April 2005 / Accepted: 6 February 2006...0% Cu), located in the Coastal Range of northern Chile, displays two superimposed hydrothermal events....Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, P.O. Box 13518-21, Santiago, Chile e-mail: lramirez@cec.uchile.cl...mineralization . Upper jurassic . Coastal range . Northern Chile A. N. Sial NEG LABISE Department of Geology, Federal...Blancos ore deposit, in the Coastal Range of northern Chile (Fig. 1). Pre-mining resources of this deposit are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 543–580 The Productora Cu-Au-Mo Deposit, Chile: A Mesozoic Magmatic-Hydrothermal Breccia Complex...breccia complex in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile. The current resource, which includes the neighboring...seen throughout the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile. Introduction Iron-oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposits...In the Mesozoic Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile, IOCG, magnetite-apatite, and porphyry-Cu deposits...Ma (Maksaev et al., 2007). The Punta del Cobre district has been proposed as intermediate between magnetite-apatite
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...Hydrothermal Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...dioptase Chalcoalumite after azurite with cuprite Chrysocolla Copper Copper after cuprite Cuprite Cuprite
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans...Brazil and Peru with occasional trips to Uruguay, Chile, and Colombia. Besides buying, he started mining...collecting expeditions to the Atacama Desert to collect Underground Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 1993
Report (issue)
Monster mine, which shipped 5 tons of ore to Marysvale, Utah, during 1951; the Majuba Hill mine; the Stalin's...prospect; and the West Willys claim in the Washington district. No estimate has been made of thorium reserves...localities, because nine properties in the Washington district are shown as one locality.) Of these, 13 contained...torbernite-bearing rock; (2) the Green Monster mine in the Goodsprings district, Clark County, which shipped 5 tons... pyramid Lake ^P$Cors°n Sink 8 Atlanta mine 9 Daisy mine 10 OIO Dad and ura No. I claims -index
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...wrote for Rocks & Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April... Morrtroydfte Calcite Figure 4: Some Terlingua district minerals, Brewster County. Agua Fria Ranch, 59...chalcedony) (Zeitner, 1972). Altuda Mountain district, Bird mine, 8 miles E of Alpine on a N projecting ridge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NO. 1922. 2 THE GEOLOGY OF THE BRADEN MINE, RANCAGUA, CHILE) WALDEI•AR LINDGREN AND EDSON S, BASTIN.............. 76 Geologic history of the Braden mine.................................. 77 Cerro Negro...chalcopyrite.Examplesof this type are more commonin Chile than elsewhereand amongthem we mentionTamaya, Las...manyof the company's officials in New York and in Chile for courtesies in the progressof the work that it...st of the survey. GeneralSituation.--The Braden mine, or E1 Mineral Teniente,as the Chileanscall it,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Picaron Cu–Mo porphyry and exotic prospect (Atacama region, Chile) were analyzed for major and trace elements...elements Stable isotopes Non-traditional isotopes Chile Atacama 1. Introduction The Picaron Cu–Mo porphyry...porphyry and within the Atacama region’s hyper-arid desert climate in northern Chile (Fig. 1). A notable...activities (2014–2019) in the wider Greater Victoria District (GVD) were undertaken by First Quantum Minerals...al., 2017; Riquelme et al., 2017). In northern Chile, the primary host for exotic mineralization is the
Book (edition)
grey; 4 Internal Twinning Reflect. Coffinite Chrysocolla Muscovite isotropic, many scratches suggest... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Soils and Ground Waters at the Pampa del Tamarugal, Chile: Anatomy of a Fossil Geochemical Anomaly Derived...del Tamarugal in northern Chile is a gravel plain, part of the hyperarid Atacama desert. Soil geochemical...which are abundant in ground waters from northern Chile. The anomaly lies west of one of the world’s most...the surface from buried mineralization. In the Atacama desert, seismic pumping along faults that cut mineralization...Location of major copper porphyry deposits in northern Chile and the Tamarugal geochemical survey area. ACL =
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...Copper-Related Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol...Illustrations Chalcotrichite in calcite 15 2 Chrysocolla with quartz and malachite 16 2 Cuprite (chalcotrichite)...mordenite Chalcoalumite Chalcocite in gypsum Chrysocolla Conichalcite on plancheite. Copper Cornetite
Book (edition)
Copper-Related Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...2 3 3 6 13 14 14 Chalcotricbite in calcite Chrysocolla with quartz and malachite Cuprite ( chalcotrichite)...mordenite Chalcoalun1ite Chalcocite in gypsum Chrysocolla Conicbalcite on plancheite. Copper Cornetite...16 PART ONE INTRODUCTION Wulfenite. Glove mine, Cottonwood Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa
Book (edition)
the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite...Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain...Coconino County, and grandviewite from the Grandview mine, Coconino County. A few of the additional minerals...hydrothermal deposits. Yavapai County: Monte Cristo mine, as an alteration of nickeline and skutterudite...CaZn(As04)(OH) Cochise County: Warren district, Southwest mine, 7th level; A small open cut on the surface
Book
Universidad de Concepci6n Casilla 4107 Concepci6n, Chile ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1.... . . . 37 The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Sulfides in the Greenstone Belt of South-Central Chile - An Overview G. Alfaro and S. Callao . . . . ....Formation and Massive Sulfide Orebodies, South-Central Chile: Geologic and Isotopic Aspects S. Callao, G. Alfaro
Book (edition)
Leigh McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa...geographic district names have been replaced with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral...material was cut parallel to the grain. The Blue Ball Mine, in Gila County, has produced thousands of azurite
Book
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:...most famous meteorite, with pieces found at Canyon Diablo (Arizona, USA), fell c. 20,000-40,000 years ago...(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
Book
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:...most famous meteorite, with pieces found at Canyon Diablo (Arizona, USA), fell c. 20,000-40,000 years ago...(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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in δ34S notation relative to V-CDT (Vienna Cañon Diablo Troilite). Reproducibility (1σ) was around ± 0...zones of malachite, azurite, brochantite, and chrysocolla with decreasing depth. Cuprite is usually found...chalcocite/covellite. Brochantite, malachite, azurite, and chrysocolla replace Cu sulfides and fill microcracks and...originally had high pyrite content. At Los Chihuidos, chrysocolla is more abundant with subordinate malachite and...malachite and azurite are abundant with minor chrysocolla. Rare iodargyrite has been also identified. Fluid
Book
local families who high-grade the tailings or the mine itself. The most interesting thing to consider,...the Jesils Marla silver and copper mine, high on a ridge. The mine has been worked only sporadically in...to find some interesting quartz specimens in the mine dumps. Between 1969 and 1973 Josephine L. Scripps...been used to crush ore samples. The Cantu Palms Mine has been worked off and on for many years, but with...half of this distance, and is an abandonded sulfur mine. Cross’ map shows a faint jeep track in to the north
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mongolia 11 c. Erdenet Mining Corporation, Orkhon Province, 61027, Mongolia 12 13 * Corresponding author:...magmatic sources, whereas Cu (II) minerals such as chrysocolla, malachite and azurite presented 24 much larger...city of Erdenet in the central part of Orkhon Province and 384 81 km northwest of Ulaanbaatar. The...Geology 145 6 146 The Erdenetiin Ovoo ore district occurs within a 20–25-km-diameter structure embracing...mineralization in the Erdenetiin Ovoo ore 149 district is associated with the Erdenet porphyry complex
Report (issue)
WVJO'65 Geology and Mineral Deposits of MOUNT DIABLO Contra Costa County, California rUNlVERSlTY OF...DAVIS View east along Arroyo del Cerro to Mount Diablo from the North Gate Road. Rolling by Cretaceous...formation is from diabase (left). Summit of Mount Diablo is out of sight behind Moses Rock Ridge. (right)...(right) Geology and Mineral Deposits of MOUNT DIABLO Contra Costa County, California By EARL H. PAMPEYAN...setting 24 Ore deposits 24 Ryne mine 25 Mount Diablo mine 26 Prospects 26 Prospect near Sunshine
 
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