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Atacamite from
Hillside Mine, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Atacamite
Formula:Cu2(OH)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Baryte1 photo of Atacamite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Atacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hillside Mine, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:962441
Long-form Identifier:1:3:962441:2
GUID (UUID V4):a5349df0-d25d-4228-bbaa-def6e402238f
Nearest other occurrences of Atacamite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Kapunda Copper Mine, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
19.7km (12.3 miles) Gomersal Mine, Gomersal, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
55.3km (34.4 miles) Tea Tree Gully Mine (Tea Tree Iron Mine; Tea Tree Silver Mine; Ironstone Quarry), Anstey Hill Recreation Park, Tea Tree Gully, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
58.2km (36.2 miles) Edelweiss Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
64.8km (40.3 miles) Utica Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
65.3km (40.6 miles) Princess Royal Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
72.4km (45.0 miles) West Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
75.0km (46.6 miles) Burra Burra Copper Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
80.6km (50.1 miles) Onkaparinga mine, Echunga goldfield, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
82.6km (51.3 miles) Kanmantoo Mine (Kanmantoo West; Kanmantoo North), Kanmantoo, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423
Catalog/List
Mammoth, Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine... Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Native Silver...Silver, Aspen, Colo., Mollie Gib­ son Mine, one of the greatest Silver Mines ever discovered. Native...Calcite, Golden, N. M. Gold Leaf on Quartz, Burdette Mine, Nevada Co., Cal. Agatized Wood, Adamana, Arizona...Adamana, Arizona Vanadanite, Crystallized, Rio Cloud Mine, Yuma Co., Arizona Carnotite, Very Rich. San Miguel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MCLAUGHLIN 5 Tenth Avenue West Moonah, Tasmania 7009, Australia dehne.mclaughlin@bigpond.com RAY GRANT 20323 S...August 2013 from the Malbunka Copper Mine Northern Territory Australia Photos by Dehne McLaughlin and Maureen...Looking east at a tent camp and vehicles on the mine waste rock dump. Note adit entrances commence in...map, prepared by William W. Besse. Figure 3. Atacamite, chrysocolla, and azurite in footwall sandstone...and habits, but azurite from the Malbunka copper mine (also referred to in the past as Namatjira’s copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collection is a specimen with the label "Boleite" on Atacamite. Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico. It is...approx. y4" across the face, on the green massive Atacamite. The name "Boleite," as well as the location,...Narrow beaches with rounded boulders stretch North and South. An artificial harbor was built to provide...name from a neighboring town some 40 miles to the South, Santa Rosalia De Mulege, now known only as Mulege...houses of the miners are built row upon row on the hillside. Everything clusters around the huge smelter,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
indirectly (e.g., alteration of mine tunnel walls; weathering products of mine dumps and slag). A second human...occurrences Number of localities I. Mine-associated (“post-mine”) minerals Formula Type locality; other...Dandy mine, Paradox Valley, Montrose County, Colorado Metadelrioite 2 SrCa(VO3)2(OH)2 Jo Dandy mine, Paradox...Finistère, France Schuetteite 15 Hg3O2(SO4) Ocean mine dump, San Luis Obispo County, California Smrkovecite...Ni5(CO3)4(OH)2·4–5H2O 132 North mine, Widgiemooltha, Australia B. Alteration phases associated with mine tunnel walls
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...specimen of olivenite from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have...conchoidal to irregular fracture. The measured density ranges from 4.4 to 4.5, and its Mohs hardness is 3. Olivenite...secondary copper assemblages from the Black Pine mine in the Phillipsburg area of Granite County (Waisman...and Gibbs 1983; Anthony et al. 1995). At the 79 mine in Gila County, olivenite occurs as small, olive-green
Journal (issue)
Wolloxall CONTINENTAL EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal...Groenkloof South Africa 0027 £4inS.A. Rand.inc.p&pperissue S.J.S. Hughes AMERICAN CONTINENT AUSTRALIA Mrs...Wattletree Road, East Malvern. Melbourne, Victoria3145 Australia Tel: (03) 5091181 A$9 inc. p & p per issue ARTICLES...'Golconda' Littleworth Lane, Rossington, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. DNll 0HB. Tel: (0302) 866536 Bakewell...Showing the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of
Journal (issue)
FedEx Shipping in Continental 48 States Kingsley North, Inc. P.O. Box 216: Dept 3, Norway, MI 49870-0216...Manifestations of an Enigmatic Phenomenon (Part I) 18 North Star Turquoise Joe Dehmer New, Natural and Native...Turquoise rough recently extracted from the North Star Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado; a specimen of Morrisonite...Proprietors Steve & Darlene P.O. Box 21704, Billings, MT 59104-1704 • Phone: 406-651-4947 Mobile: 406-208-2577...started in 1894 underground at the United Verde mine. The fire seems to have started spontaneously when
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MARCH 1992, VOL 56, PP. 123-126 Gold from Botallack mine, St. Just, Cornwall DURING a recent examination...oxidized samples from cliff exposures near Botallack mine (SX 362340) gold was observed in hand specimen and...district (C. J. Stanley, pers. comm.). The BotaUack mine is well known for the occurrence of an extensive...oxidation of the primary copper deposit. The atacamite-type minerals, which also occur within the oxidised...process. Andersonite and schr6ckingerite from Geevor mine, Cornwall: two species new to Britain SCHROCK1NGERITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Chuquicamata, in the arid Atacama Desert of north Chile, has recently been published by M. C. Bandy...writer was employed as a staff geologist at the mine. During that time and since the publication of Bandy's...at Broken HilI in the arid region of western New South Wales. Spencer and Prior (1901) published a complete...crystals intimately associated with atacamite were found at the south end of the oxidized ore body at Chuquicamata...identification. Recently Mr. Lester Zeihen of the mine stafi at Chuquicamata has sent additional specimensto
Report (issue)
WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R. J...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces ............................................ Durack Ranges ..................................................................................... Whim Creek mine ...............................................
Journal (issue)
the Main Tantalite Dyke Wodgina, Western Australia, Australia Mark Jacobson 108 Farmington Drive Lafayette...famous Main Tantalite Dyke at Wodgina, Western Australia and the adjacent tantalum-bearing pegmatites owe...Crystalis ninecm in length. the Mons Cupri Copper Mine, southwest of Whim Creek. After confirming its identity...monoclinic, as in clinoatacamite, Cui(OH) 3Cl. Atacamite and botallackite, Cui{OH)3CI, are orthorhombic...Herbertsmithite has been found in the Kali Kafi mine, Anarak, Iran, in tiny (<0.1 mm) bright green grains
Book (edition)
Leigh McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa...the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue in downtown Tucson. The or:ginal museum...material was cut parallel to the grain. The Blue Ball Mine, in Gila County, has produced thousands of azurite...travertine in Arizona comes from a deposit just north of Mayer, Yavapai County, a popular spot for collectors...is the white travertine deposit about ten miles north of Kingman in the Stockton Hills. This location
Book (edition)
Jan H. Bernard (Czcch Republic). W.D. Birch (Australia), Elena Bonaccorsi (Italy), Ernst A.J. Burke (Netherlands)...Merlino (ltaly), Yves Mo!:lo (France), E.11. ickcl (Australia), Milan Novåk (Czech Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden)...Chemical. Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zone of partial oxidation which over much of the mine separatesthe sulphideand oxidized orebodies. Finally...MENTIONED Mineral Formula Anglesite ...... PbSO4 Atacamite CuO ..... Bellingerite ..... .CuCh IN THIS...solutionsof very lowSO3content.Overintermediate ranges of conceptration, two of thesemineralsmay be stabletogether...Posnjak, E.: Sulphate incrustationsin the Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee,Ariz. Amer. Min. 22: 567-571, 1937. :256...distance, automobiles appearto coastuphill,and the mine 5 In a personal communication, dated October 13
Catalog/List
Grayson, Lapidary_____ _ FOR THE TRADE ONLY 51 35 HILLSIDE. WASHINGTON ILLINOIS 60162 (31 2) 449-1 399...$30, 2@ $40, and 4@ $50, T0-2 SELENITE Condessa Mine, Santa Eulalia, Hex, $40.00 These t~n pieces nre...1.00 C MINERAL SPECIMENS ( 7) MT-7 VANADINITE - Apache Mine, Globe, Arizona $25.00 Cherry red Vanadinites...against this background - unusual 2-3/4" x l¼" x 3/4" MT-8 TORBERNITE - Zacatecas, Mexico Very bright green...very nice piece of this rare mineral. 2" x 2" x l" MT-9 HUTCHINSONITE and ORPIMENT - Quiruvilca, Peru
Book
and in characteristic geological circumstances; atacamite, for example, is found in the oxidized zones of...Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and in the states...crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at...abundance in the Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown...Witwatersrand, South Africa, are the major economic gold producers. The Republic of South Africa is in
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PUBLISHING 6 Beatty Street Linden Park SA 5065 Australia Phone: +61 8 8379 7397 Facsimile: +61 8 8379 7397...Australian Mineral Foundation Inc. in Perth, Western Australia, 30 November to 1 December, 1998. The technical...Porter Porter GeoConsultancy Pty Ltd, Adelaide, Australia. Abstract - Hydrothermal copper & gold deposits...a deposit, but rather the engineering ability to mine on a large scale at low cost, and simultaneously...1995),which had only recently been developed in Australia. Within 10 to 15 years, several other famous porphyry
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London................. 127 by T. Szenics The El Dragon mine, Potosi, Bolivia .................................one month in advance. ATACAMITE PIN The Mineralogical Society of South Australia has issued a burnished...shape of an atacamite crystal from the famous Moonta mines (source of the world’s finest atacamite; see vol...vol. 19, no. 6, p. 407). Atacamite has been chosen by the society as their emblem, hence the pin. According
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...Other geographical abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river)...the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...of pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For...6(5) - 5.8(4) - low-grade high-pressure quartzite on Mt. Ochi. near Karystos, Euboia, and near 3.77(8) -
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London...CHALCOPYRITE on TETRAHEDRITE, 15 cm, from the Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. Collection of the...the lives and times of its miners. The Botallack mine was selected as the example to feature because of...Atlantic Ocean to the north and northwest and the English Channel to the south and south­ west. Its only...October 29, 1201. In addition to granting rights to mine tin ore, some charters also gave other privileges
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and copper secondary minerals in the La Reixidora mine - Monte Bedures, Meredo, Vegadeo, Asturias, Spain...Vegadeo, Asturias, are the remains of a series of mine workings, some of them very old. These mines were...for argentiferous galena, is located on the NE hillside, in the area near the top of the mountain known...minerals but were formed before the completion of mine workings, contrary to what happens in other locations...up, Volume 5 n.1, June 18’ Atacamite Cu2(OH)3Cl Cotunnite PbCl2 Atacamite appears as small crystalline
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol...diaboleite Analcime with hematite inclusions Atacamite and anglesite Aurichalcite Boleite Brochantite...Paramelaconite Paratacamite pseudomorph 133 after atacamite Phoenicochroite Pyrite Ransomite Selenium tn
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Species D e Re M etallica M inerals of W estern Australia C om prehensive catalog of the nam es and I I...Treasures Leather E dition M in in g H istory in South Australia Strictly lim ited edition, very finely I I... LH A ustralia. Illustrated m ining history: South $23 postpaid (H ) M ineralogy o f Alabama (1982)...$230 postpaid (foreign add $35) (H) C atalogue of South A ustralian M inerals Em pire of Silver D escribes...rizona. Gem stones T h e definitive review of South A u stralian opal localities. $15 postpaid (H )
Book (edition)
Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...diaboleite Analcin1e with hematite inclusions Atacamite and anglesite Aurichalcite Boleite Brochantite...Paramelaconite Paratacan1ite pseudomorph after atacamite Phoenicochroite Pyrite Ransomite Selenium Spangolite...16 PART ONE INTRODUCTION Wulfenite. Glove mine, Cottonwood Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa
 
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