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Cuprite from
Batea Mine, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Batea Mine, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:572737
Long-form Identifier:1:3:572737:7
GUID (UUID V4):b784aab4-7d90-403d-9924-8c25aa6b6407
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . 51 Copper Metallurgy in Northern Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Elementary 39 Elect. Colliery Practice . Mine-Surveying . . Mine Air, Investigation of. Mining Law . . Blasting...LARSEN J. RIEMER . . J. G. LAWN, A. R.S. M. - Mine Accounts º7 PROF. JAMES PARK, F. G.S. - - $3...de la Sociedad Nacional de Minería,” Santiago de Chile (monthly). “ Boletín del Cuerpo de Ingenieros de...corresponding substantive.) alluvial mining. Andalusia (Province), Spain. Antioquia (Department), Republic of Colombia... Bol. de la S. N. de M. . - - - - Aragón (Province), Spain. Argentine Republic. assaying. building
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manufactures, in agriculture, or in commerce. It is the province of the State Mining Bureau to give general information...of arts and manufactures and products of soil and mine, in the year 1876, in commemoration of the anniversary...arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine; and whereas, such an exhibition should be national...Arizona, on the south by the Mexican State or Province of Lower California, and on the west by the Pacific...Named Carbonates. ARAGONITE. Etym. Aragon, a province in Spain. Carbonate of Lime. 9. 15. AZURITE. Etym
Journal (issue)
fluorite, uranite, spinelli, granati, leucite, cuprite, blenda, pirite, ullmannite. Gruppo dimetrico:...CLASSE PENTAGONOICOSITETRAEDRICA (432) o della cuprite 3 assi 4, 4 assi 3, 6 assi 2 - icositetraedro pentagonale:...esacisottaedrica) Granato (cl. esacisottaedrica) Cuprite (cl. icositetraedro pentagonale) Pirite (classe...attività didattica e mostro l'uso del piatto o batea presso una vasca che hanno realizzato i titolari... 31 Per Giovanni Vautero era esposta la sua batea in legno, ovvero “gave” (secondo la tradizione felettese)
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61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, ...abandoned cially in the dumps not unusual for mine dumps, espe- a solid gold or silver nugget, simply...glossary and Part III is devoted to a section on small-mine development. The proper use of a geologic map...for profitable hunting or for developing your own mine are as great as ever. America needs strategic minerals
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ton $51 00 222 00 $273 00 Copper Ore, Pioneer Mine, Boliuas Bay, Marin County 3358. Silver, per ton...analysis of auriferous gravel, from Nevada hydraulic mine, Chalk Bluffs, (See Second Annual Report, 1382,...County, in May, 1880. Bowen. Crystals of gold. Banner mine, near Michigan Placer County. Two pieces, the largest...specimens of silver ore, coated with embolite. Etna mine, Globe District, Pinal County, Arizona. Loan. William...Ores containing free gold, with pyrite. Treasure mine, Placer County. Hidden Free gold in porphyry,
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California Bolivia Brazil California Central America Chile chemistry Colombia crystallography Cuba Ecuador...Bolivia Brasil California (EE.UU.) America Central Chile quimica Colombia cristalografia Cuba Ecuador frances...according to country: Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Curacao Ecuador El Salvador...the legua vary from country to country: Argentina Chile Colombia Cuba Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras...monton varied from 15 to 32 quintales. 5 Except in Chile where a cajon is 6,400 libras and Peru where a cajan
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disig- norant of the methods by which a great mine should be opened, developed, and worked. A few...sulphides, and are harder to treat. fore act very mine The prospector should therewhen trying to develop...with which it can be mined. The famous Treadwell mine, on Douglas Island, Alaska, has ore that is worth...dollar a ton profit, and hundreds of thousands tin mine known as and the Burra copper mim- in Australia...with South American miners. It made of hard batea. deep in is is wood, 20 inches in diameter, 2
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classifications of identifications. 4 EL EMEN TARY MINE RA LOGY Like learning about the science of mineralogy...hills. Once again the elements of running a small mine were present-little effort to get the rock and an...over again. This could explain how so many lost mine stories were created in desert areas. While it is...very subtle and need closer examination to deter¬ mine if they actually deposit gold. Some, like bends...efficiency of the elevators in use at the Wild Goose Mine near Ophir Creek in Alaska was published. The principle
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have been mined to a Down to 52 m. (170 ft.) the mine was dry. depth of 56 m. (183 ft.) Chrysoprase,...Joseph shaft. At a southeastern. the southeast mine, this place the tuffs and marly slates Wengen...impregnated with Ore is also extracted in this part of the mine from a zone of cinnabar. impregnated rock lying...dolomite and the Wengen marly shales. In the Northwest mine, on the contrary, the succession of rocks the ent...of a dying volcanic activity. The Santa Barbara mine, close to the is the most important. The deposit
Report (issue)
evolution of the old wooden bowl, known as the "batea," used in these early diggings, is symbolized in...Dolores for milling the ores from the celebrated Ortiz mine in Santa Fe County; one at the gold camp of Pinos...Pinos Altos in Grant County; and one at the Aztec mine at the head of Ute Creek on Baldy Mountain, in Colfax...Oro, constituting what is now known as the Ortiz mine. In the Los Cerrillos district, a few miles west...water level and have been flooded ever since the mine was originally abandoned, the full extent of underground
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MEXICO NEW metallurgy. old used in these “batea,” OF RESOURCES MINERAL as the in symbolized...penetrate the water level and have been since the mine of metallurgist Mississippi appear with incline... what del Tierra. interest of Ute the Ortiz mine. as metalliferous workings as exist head famous...in Santa mine of Pinos camp The first experiments in were at Dolores one Aztec mine at Baldy... 1870 the remnants of still in evidence in the mine. is not the known. old canoe This curious
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gold mine only a few miles from his present home. He and a friend found the brush-covered mine mouth...who thus suddenly found out that he owned a gold mine. Annotated lists of magazines and books which rockhounds...the gravel in one particular sapphire-gold placer mine is passed of mesh. sapphires size. The through...years ago, as a visitor to the sapphire-gold placer mine in Montana previously described, the writer, wanting...sapphires found in three years of operation at that mine! Similarly, don’t be in a hurry to discard the material
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Rocks and Minerals is in itself a veritable gold mine. Readers learn about the inside of minerals — the...among the sublimates of tiferous galena. Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, and the United ASSOCIATED MINERALS AND...beautiful specimens come from Chile beautiful specimens come from Chile (Chafarcillo) and the German...MINERALS AND LOCALITIES: rahj al-ghar, powder of the mine. It fuses easily, giving off arsenic fumes with...COMPOSITION: CusCl(OH)3 hydrated copper chloride. CUPRITE Woxw COMPOSITION: CuO Copper oxide. CRYSTALLINE
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had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel...prodvced by atmospheric oxidation, can be found. Old mine dumps often reveal a varied assortment of brightly...unusual for a casual visitor to an old gold rush mine to kick up a solid gold, silver, or native copper...Service topographic maps usually pinpoint every major mine, petrified forest, or other site of significance
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it ing in a shallow dish, called in Brazil a "batea," the lighter materials are carried away in a stream...discovered in 1902, and is worked as the Premier mine. This pipe measures half a mile across, and it the...969^ carats, found in 1893 in the Jagersfontein mine, Orange River Colony; and also the "Cullinan," which...which was found in 1905 in the Premier mine near Pretoria, Transvaal. The "Cullinan" is by far the largest...State of New York, and Canada. The famous Borrowdale mine, near Keswick, in Cumberland, was worked since the
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Panning is done either with a gold pan or with a batea. The gold pan is used for comparatively large samples...better to complete the concentration in a batea. The batea is a wooden pan, preferably about 10 inches...to the central apex should be about 1 inch. The batea is used in a manner similar to the gold pan, except...should be washed (with a wash-bottle) from the batea into a filter paper and dried on a hot plate or...Tantalite Arsenopyrite Baddeleyite Chalcocite Cuprite 54 Martite Chalcocite Euxenite Hematite Samarskite
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washing in a shallow 1 dish, called in Brazil a 'batea, the lighter materials are carried away in a stream...This pipe measures half a worked as the Premier mine. far the largest mile across, and it is further...969J carats, found in 1893 in the Jagersfontein mine, Orange River Colony ; and also 1 the 'Cullinan...'Cullinan, which was found in 1905 in the Premier mine near Pretoria, Transvaal. The 'Cullinan' is by far the...of Canada. New York, and The famous Borrowdale mine, near Keswick, in Cumberland, was worked since
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8*1 galena, 7-5 or tinstone, 6*9 mispickel, 6-05 cuprite, 6'o erite ; ; ; chalcocite, 5*03 alloyed...washing gold or other daily in ores the pan, the batea, or on the vanning shovel. in ; precious stones...COMPOUNDS OF METALS WITH OXYGEN. MONOXIDE GROUP. A. Cuprite, or Ruby Copper monoxide of copper, Cu 2 O. Zincite...Infusible. Density, 10*6. in Canada Ontario, Mine), (Vermilion and North Carolina (Cowee Valley)...the oxidized ores, which, besides the oxides, cuprite and melaconite, include the carbonates, malachite
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Panning is done either with a gold pan or with a batea. The gold pan is used for comparatively large san1ples...better to complete the concentration in a batea. The batea is a wooden pan, preferably about I O inches...to the central apex should be about I inch. The batea is used in a manner similar to the gold pan, except...should be washed (with a wash-bottle) from the batea into a filter paper and dried on a hot plate or...Tantalite Arsenopyrite Baddeleyite Chalcocile Cuprite 5½ Marlite Chalcocite Euxenile Hemalite San
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T'ung-lii-shan copper mine, China Wooden 'batea' from T'ung-lii-shan copper mine, and similar items after...Paul Middle oronze age palstave found at Godolphin Mine, Breage Working gold alluvials in California in...characterized-by the presence of native copper, copper oxide (cuprite), copper carbonates (malachite and, less frequently...the Eastern Desert has proved to be a rare-metal province containing, among other things, tin (cassiterite)...accompanying table shows the importance of Rooiberg. The mine may be somewhat older than the Nigeria as a tin
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Manufacturing Materials 378 28. PART 33. 6 Opening a Mine 34. Mineral Processing PART Glossary Index ...testing or assaying, developing a prospect into a mine (at least in its preliminary stages), dressing and...start when the urge over again and find another mine. Part 7 contains tables of the chemical elements...illustrated by such examples as the Yerrington copper mine in Nevada, which was known in 1918 but not developed...Shirley, a prospector, discovered the Poseidon mine, even though the Western Mining Corporation had
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Award • Inclusions in agate from China’s Sichuan Province • Unusual repair of an emerald • Yellowish green...Karl Schmetzer traces the history of the Habachtal mine during the era between World Wars I and II, using...workings were called the Königskrone (“Kings Crown”) mine. The finest topaz crystals were extracted during...mining tunnel of the nearby Grube Tannenberg tin mine. Gem-quality topaz crystals worth cutting were mostly...Famous mineral localities: The Königskrone topaz mine, Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany. Mineralogical
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to become more efficient in his work. Schools of mine. and vocational schools in many Western States give...on page 7. . During the examination of a pro pect mine in K evacl a, when most of the supplies were purchased...owner of a mill or reduction works, not ow ning a mine in connection t herewith, may also receive a patent...(.£1 to £3 .S) per year for a license to mine gold or to mine gold a nd gems, Sl0 (.£2) to min e for oth...oth e r minerals, and $14 (.£3) to mine for gems . . . . R oya lties arc 50 cents (2 shillings) an ounce
Report (volume)
_________ Siria mine ________________________ ------------- __ ----Los Hornitos mine ______ ;_______...mine____________________________________ La Uni6n mine ________________ -----------------------(}uatem...______ __ ____ ______ _ 48 48 49 50 51 51 51 La Paz mine ______ ---------------------------Cabanas distr...district___________________________________ La Joya mine ____ ----------------------------La Corona depos...~ateoprospect-----------------------------------~ataquescuintla mine _____________ ---- __ -----__________ Los Sandillales
 
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