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Atacamite from
Monica mine, Tocopilla Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Atacamite
Formula:Cu2(OH)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Atacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Monica mine, Tocopilla Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:566534
Long-form Identifier:1:3:566534:1
GUID (UUID V4):7fe82926-0648-4e45-9359-319e10cf90db
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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
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in Redfield, Iowa, to begin the long journey to Chile. The diary o f his three-month expedition in search...Smithsonian makes interesting reading. O Traveling to Chile in 1935 was a major undertaking, beginning with...—minerals that he would most likely encounter in Chile —and to obtain his passport and Chilean visa. From...Canal to Callao and Lima, Peru and finally to Tocopilla, Chile. The voyage took from July 27 to August 10...collecting trip in Chile lasted from August 10 until his departure from Valparaiso, Chile, on November 7
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Calif., and Marion Godshaw, 633 21st St., Santa Monica, Calif. All have them. Recently, I acquired several...came a small parcel of from Australia sent is atacamite. Actu- wulfenite xls, Bob is an active collector... The crystals range in size from from the Glove mine, and yellow-orange micro to a quarter of an inch...inch, not im- wulfenite from the Old Yuma Mine. The Glove is 20 or so miles south of Tucson, pressive but...the Old Yuma is about Atacamite was first discovered in the Atacama Desert of Chile where it oc- the same
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and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral...hypogene copper lodes. INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall....;:;0;:;..,.... :.WST'JUST )~~~ BALLESWIDDEN MINE '\:;;:~. .F lGURE 1. Schematic geology of the
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Field Trip to South Wales Collecting Minerals in Chile Arthur Kingsbury - Falsified British Mineral Locations...196 July/Aug 2005 PERU MINERAL COLLECTING IN CHILE Alan and Sue Edwards have collected minerals from...the world including 7 trips to Namibia and two to Chile. They realised, as SMLS has done with its Geotourism... Alan and Sue both had brothers working out in Chile and this was the main reason for this trip. The...Calma and San Pedro de Atacama and the northern province of Putre (see map). •' Calama / { \ I ?
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DeMark Malachite pseudomorphs from the Sir Dominick mine, Arkaroola, South Australia ......................Osarizawaite-beaverite intergrowths from Sierra Gorda, Chile ..........................101 by W. H. Paar and...Tucson, Arizona 85740 COVER: GOLD from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. This specimen, about...mining activity in the future. The Red Cloud copper mine is on the west side of the forest road and was originally...remains of the original mine workings is a fenced vertical shaft and the mine dumps (Fig. 2). Access to
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Dunn Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah .............................Kokinos & W. S. Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado ............................33 by B. Cairncross The Jan Coetzee copper mine, Namaqualand, South Africa .......................California Santa Barbara, California 93106 The Gold Hill mine in western Utah has long been an important locality...the oxidation zone o f this old mine. INTRODUCTION The Gold Hill mine is located in western Tooele County
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Seelite, a new uranium mineral from the Talmessi mine, Iran, and Rabejac, France .......................emphasis or clarity, and (d) proper names, e.g., mine levels. 8. Credits. Caption data for specimen photos...Chavez, Leonard Bourget 1636 11th Street Santa Monica, California 90404 Tel: (213) 450-6556 FAX: (213)...that it intends to move forward with a project to mine 170 million tons of the outlined ore (Bisbee Daily...found in boulders of cuprite fron1 the Southwest mine, as well as identifying or confirming the identity
Book (edition)
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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EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...Showing the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of...hematite, goethite and paratacamite. LOCATION Botallack Mine is situated north-west of St. Just and one mile...are situated at grid reference SW 363 336. The mine is reached by turning off the B3306 coast road in...efficient of its time, was employed to drain the mine. In 1822 it was recorded that, because the adit
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Seelite, a new uranium mineral from the Talmessi mine, Iran, and Rabejac, France .......................emphasis or clarity, and (d) proper names, e.g., mine levels. 8. Credits. Caption data for specimen photos...Chavez, Leonard Bourget 1636 11th Street Santa Monica, California 90404 Tel: (213) 450-6556 FAX: (213)...that it intends to move forward with a project to mine 170 million tons of the outlined ore {Bisbee Daily...found in boul ders of cuprite from the Southwest mine, as well as identifying 01 confirming the identity
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2016 Figure 3. The New Cornelia pit in 1976. The mine shown in figure 1 was located on the volcanic stock...and Morenci recently became the largest open-pit mine in the country; with production approaching 1 million...modern mining at the Mineral Park open-pit copper mine. The first documented European interest in Arizona’s...United Verde deposit at Jerome. Espejo proclaimed the mine rich with silver; however, Diego Perez de Luxan...of the expedition, thought that the ore from the mine was only of copper and therefore poor and uninteresting
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Three May-June 1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon...Shannon Famous mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona............................... ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal, 5 cm across and nearly...Multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the Yankee Boy mine (1, 7, 33), by Richard A. Bideaux. Three specimens...described from an outcrop near the White Tail Deer mine in the Bisbee district. Wickenburgite (1,2, 80)
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GEMSTONES OPALS, BRILLIANT COLORS—Direct from mine, 15 for $5.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst...specimen & tumbling grade $3.00 lb. Apache tears, mine run 45c lb. Vanadium xls $3.00 lb. Arizona petrified...xllne. Colo., 1 V i x l V i " $ 3 . 5 0 . Atacamite - Chile, $ 1 5 . 0 0 xls. 2 V i x 2 V i " . Scheelite...i c a , 2 x 4 " $ 4 5 . 0 0 . Brochantite xls, Chile, 1 x 3 " $ 1 5 . 0 0 . Calcite x l . , highly modified...supplier of South W e s t e r n minerals and gems at mine prices. Send $ 1 . 0 0 for suite of samples and
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Moving his collecting activities to the Santa Monica Mountains, Fred found many unreported microminemls...References Siefke J. W. (! 991) The Boron Open Pit Mine at the Kram.e r Borate Deposit. In "The Diversity... 89, pp. 767-776. lO. Minerals of tbe New Era Mine, WolfCreek Mining Distrid, Lewis and Clark County...associated with the major thrust faults. The New Era mine (also know as the Rosetta or Rosenfield) is on the...of Wolf Creek in sec. 30, T. 15 N .• R. 4 W. The mine hos two adits, one at the level of the creek and
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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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Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite from Bwlch mine, Deganwy, Conwy, Wales C; Ryback and J G. Francis... D.I. Green and G. Ry back Raspite from Carrock mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England: a first British...Neall and D.I. Green Vesignieite from Castletown mine, Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, a first Scottish...to have surviv~d undamaged and unweathered in a mine dump from which they are supposed to have been collected...Cornish ones by Golley and Williams (1995) . SANDBED MINE. ClMBRlA This was supposedly collected by A.K. in
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sources and the development of knowledge needed to mine and extract the tin and use it to alloy with different...plentiful, as in present-day Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. Development of brass Brass, the alloy of copper...trihydroxychlorides, proba- bly paratacamite or atacamite); crystals of metallic copper (which can be redeposited...historically for the recovery of copper from waste mine waters, and, as is well known, the knowledge was...the galvanic deposition of copper from aeruginous mine waters even produced a minor industry in the form
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(University of Bucharest). Editorial Secretary: Monica Macovei (University of Bucharest) Editorial board...metal gold pans, as well as a replica of the famous mine carriage which is considered to be the oldest of...basis of hierarchical metallogenic criterion: province, subprovince, district, sector, field/ node (Fig...brought by the Romans from this newly conquered province was estimated at approx. 165 t with approx. 331...mining research (Wollmann, 2010) in hardly accessible mine galleries from Baia de Arieș (Dealul Vânăt, Dealul
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understandably calling it “star mica”. The specific mine is not known by any of our associates but the local­...Friedrichssegen mine (closed since 1880) is halfway between Bad Ems and Brau­ bach. The old Rosenberg mine (closed...CIETIES PRESENT FIESTA OF GEMS 1. Friedrichssegen mine, near Bad Ems, RheinlandPfalz (or Rhinelands) (formerly... Rosenberg mine at Braubach, near Bad Ems, Rheinland-Pfalz, W-Germany The Rosenberg mine produced mostly...shapes, but not very curved. The Friedrichssegen mine produced mostly green and also brown pyromorphites
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~ily exchange rate before writing your cheque) to: Mine~alogical Record P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona...associated supergene products, including cumengeite, atacamite, lavendulan, and amorphous copper silicate. The......... 0 supergene uranium minerals within the mine (e.g.-Wolloxall, 1988; Elton et al., 1994a. 1994b;...the subject of this paper. The lawn is nameless on mine plans and Ordnance Survey maps. Local collectors...map of the area around Loe Warren zawn (based on mine plan number 211 part I, dated 1879). and 0 .5-1
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P O C K E T N AT U R E ROCKS AND MINERALS MONICA PRICE KEVIN WALSH DORLING KINDERSLEY LONDON...prismatic crystals white calcite e in the USA, Chile, and Russia. PICTURES shades of blue Photographs...The best lazurite crystals come from Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan, which is also the source of the...settings created by human activity, such as roadcuts, mine dumps, and quarries. Good examples are also found...Kimberley, South Africa, is an abandoned diamond mine in a large kimberlite pipe. BIG HOLE, megacryst
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2007 PAPERS Zoned oxidation deposits in Tynebottom Mine, Garrigil1, Cumbria Trevo r F. Bridges and David...Copper·bearing silica gel from the walls of the Tankardstown mine, Co. Waterford, Treland Stephen Moreton 10-17 ...and 1. Ike Wilson 52-54 Powellite from Benallt mine, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd: a first Welsh occurrence...Tom F. Cotterell 54-55 Cesarolite from Frongoch Mine, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales Tom F. Cotterell...55-56 PAPER Corkite and hinsdalite from Frongoch Mine, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales, including evidence
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1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
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....... 30 When is a mineral not a mineral? by Monica T. Price ........................................going to meet with our demise and go to the big mine in the sky, where all the vughs are full of topaz...meeting repor t: 'No! It is n ot Isolation Mine but Snelston Mine.' there were several attemp ts to exploit...early in the 20th century w hen Snelston Copper Mine Limited w as inco rp orated. The company was established...fact that this D erbyshire mine has recently come to be known as Isolation Mine while its only correct recorded
 
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