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Alunite from
La Vendida Mine, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Vendida Mine, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:623268
Long-form Identifier:1:3:623268:9
GUID (UUID V4):d7b87bd0-8d81-4f54-9b3b-7cb554cf4eb1
Nearest other occurrences of Alunite
2.6km (1.6 miles) ⓘSanta Catalina Mine, Caracoles, Caracoles mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
29.8km (18.5 miles) ⓘEl TelĂ©grafo Cu deposit, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
30.6km (19.0 miles) ⓘEsperanza Mine, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
63.7km (39.6 miles) ⓘLomas Bayas Mine, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
66.9km (41.6 miles) ⓘFortuna de Cobre porphyry copper mine, Lomas Bayas mining district, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
70.5km (43.8 miles) ⓘMinistro Hales Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
77.6km (48.2 miles) ⓘSanta Ana Mine (Chapacase Mine), María Elena, Tocopilla Province, Antofagasta, Chile
79.4km (49.3 miles) ⓘChuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
= 4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Atacama Desert, Chile. 5.553 (100), 2.758 (52),...26.35 7.47 5.96 96.70 (1) Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Atacama Desert, Chile; average electron microprobe...Occurrence: In a desert at abandoned copper mines (Chile). An alteration product of fumarolic sublimates...deposit (Chile). Association: Nitratine, montmorillonite, paratacamite, atacamite, gunningite, alunite, natrojarosite;...eriochalcite, alunite, kaolinite, halloysite, riotintoite, anatacamite, vendidaite (La Vendida mine); bojarite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Anatacamite from La Vendida mine, Sierra Gorda, Atacama desert, Chile: a triclinic polymorph of...was found in La Vendida mine, Sierra Gorda mining district, northeast of Antofagasta, Chile. It occurs...index is 1.80, pleochroism is not apparent. In La Vendida mine anatacamite is closely associated with atacamite...atacamite, further minerals of this mineralization are alunite, clinoatacamite, chalcanthite, coquimbite, eriochalcite...atacamite, Cu2(OH)3Cl, Chile, Atacama, Sierra Gorda, La Vendida mine, Rio Tinto mine, copper chloride hydroxide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Al2(SO4)(OH)3Cl·6H2O, A NEW MINERAL FROM LA VENDIDA COPPER MINE, ANTOFAGASTA REGION, CHILE Nikita V. CHUKANOV§ Institute...the abandoned La Vendida mine, near Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Region, Atacama desert, Chile. Associated...aubertite, magnesioaubertite, belloite, eriochalcite, alunite, kaolinite, and halloysite. Vendidaite forms colorless...registration number 4335/1. Keywords: vendidaite, La Vendida mine, Chile, new mineral, aluminum chloride hydroxide...open pit of the La Vendida copper mine (Mina La Vendida, until 1990 known as Rio Tinto mine) is situated
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: La Vendida mine, Antofagasta Region, Atacama desert, Chile. 3.855 (100), 4.849 (94)...39.21 2.31 100.00 (1) La Vendida mine, Antofagasta Region, Atacama desert, Chile.; average of 5 electron...eriochalcite, alunite, kaolinite, halloysite. Distribution: At the La Vendida mine, 3 km WNW of Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta...Antofagasta Region, Atacama desert, Chile. Name: For the La Vendida mine, from which the first samples were...2(SO4)(OH)3Cl‱6H2O, a new mineral from La Vendida Copper Mine, Antofagasta Region, Chile. Can. Mineral., 51(4), 559-568
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: La Vendida mine, Antofagasta Region, Atacama Desert, Chile. 6.975 (100), 4.391 (72)...24 32.50 100.00 (1) La Vendida mine, Antofagasta Region, Atacama Desert, Chile; average of 7 electron...magnesioaubertite, belloite, alunite, kaolinite, halloysite. Distribution: From La Vendida mine (before 1990 known...as the Rio Tinto mine), near Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Region, Atacama Desert, Chile. Name: For the former...former (before 1990) name of the mine, Rio Tinto, that produced the first samples. Type Material: A.E
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Al(SO4)(OH)3H2O, A NEW MINERAL FROM LA VENDIDA COPPER MINE, ANTOFAGASTA REGION, CHILE NIKITA V. CHUKANOV§ Faculty...the abandoned La Vendida mine, near Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Region, Atacama desert, Chile. Associated...Mg-rich aubertite, magnesioaubertite, belloite, alunite, kaolinite, and halloysite. Riotintoite forms colorless...(201, 201, 013). Keywords: riotintoite, La Vendida mine, Chile, new mineral, aluminum basic sulfate, crystal...abandoned La Vendida mine (until 1990 known as the Rio Tinto mine) situated about 3 km WNW of the Sierra Gorda
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(2010) Anatacamite from La Vendida mine, Sierra Gorda, Atacama desert, Chile: a triclinic polymorph of...new mineral from La Vendida mine (an abandoned open pit copper mine) in the Sierra Gorda mining district...district, northeast of Antofagasta, Chile. The mineralization is bound to daciticandesitic volcanic breccias...well as other minerals of the oxidation zone as alunite, clinoatacamite, chalcanthite, coquimbite, eriochalcite...mineral from the Kobokobo pegmatite, South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Kobokobo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Iran, 17 km East of Sardasht (West Azerbaijan province). This is a gold-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide...(Si2O7)2O4(H2O)7, is a new mineral from the Kirovskii mine (+252 m level), Mount Kukisvumchorr, Khibiny alkaline...barytolamprophyllite, hydroxylapatite, belovite-(La), belovite-(Ce), gaidonnayite, nenadkevichite, epididymite...~Tl2Pb(Sb9–8As1–2)Σ10S17, from the Monte Arsiccio Mine: Occurrence, crystal structure and relationship...discovered in small ore deposits of the Monte Arsiccio mine, near Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Tuscany
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CaAl2(PO4)2F2, a new mineral from the Hinomaru–Nago mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Journal of Mineralogical...is a new mineral discovered in the Hinomaru-Nago mine, Kiyo area, Abu, Abu County, Yamaguchi Prefecture...Kato, A. (1998) Phosphates from the Hinomaru-Nako mine, Abu-cho, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Western Japan. Memoirs...Fe2+TiNb2O8, a new member of the wodginite group from the La Calandria granitic pegmatite, CĂłrdoba, Argentina...wodginite group from the La Calandria granitic pegmatite, Cañada del Puerto, CĂłrdoba province, Argentina (31°25â€ČS
Journal (issue)
lookingsouthas it is today.Author'sphoto,2018. Underground Mine Signals & Signs - Part I Tony Nikischer Excalibur...Bob Werner's restoration ofa mine hoist indicator from the Poorman Mine in Pioche, Nevada. The hoist...for human transport among different levels of the mine? Most early shaft communications consisted of bells...the cage or at various underground levels in the mine and the hoist operator above. For small mines a...hoist house of the Chief Consolidated(ChiefNo.1)mine,EurekaTintic district,JuabCo.,Utah.Sign size is
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite, 5 111111...Veta Negra, Chile Page 2: Anorpiment on D!piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page...sulfosalts (Moelo et al., EJM 20, 7-46, 2008), alunite supergroup (Bayliss et al., MM 74, 919-927, 2010)
Book (volume)
Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...schlossmacherite are considered as H3Odominant members of the alunite-jarosite group with idealized formulae (H3O)Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6...“hydroniumalunite”, as well as (Na,K)-deficient alunite-jarosite group minerals, characteristic bands of...Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal from...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless
Book
41)(Si3.86Al0.10 Fe0.04O10)(OH)2 from Mikhailovskii mine, Zheleznogorsk, Russia (Chukanov 2014a). IR spectra...In Fe3+-bearing Mg-poor schorl from the Limoeiro mine, Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the band of OH groups...area), olmiite CaMn(HSiO4)(OH) from N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese ïŹelds, South Africa (c), and...brandtite Ca2Mn(AsO4)2·2H2O from skarn (Harstigen mine, Sweden) (b), and roselite Ca2Co(AsO4)2·2H2O from...from Cigana mine, Brazil (a), landesite [nominally, Fe3+Mn2+2 (PO4)2(OH)·] from Bull Moose mine, South Dakota
 
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