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Melanterite from
Colquiri, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia


Classification
Species:Melanterite
Formula:Fe2+(H2O)6SO4 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Melanterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Colquiri, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:998070
Long-form Identifier:1:3:998070:9
GUID (UUID V4):489979da-9766-4050-ab37-72d1970dd6c4
References
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No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...(presumably without the shrine) to a European in La Paz, Bolivui. Rolf Wein bought the specimen on July...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv Rausch) Jase
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give his name to the famous Wheatley lead 433 ~LA miles 0 5 10 20 ^ R o n c a r i Quarry kHARTFORD...livia Alfredo Petrov Casilla 1728 Cochabamba, Bolivia e-mail: alfredopetrov@earthlink.net Bill and Carol...Colorado 80020 e-mail: smith72@attglobal.net Bolivia, a landlocked nation three times as large as M...this gazetteer. INTRODUCTION Most people think of Bolivia as a land of great mountain ranges and high cold...description only fits the southwestern third of Bolivia. The two thirds of the country to the north and
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2(2):79W Wessels Mine, Kalahari 2(1):32W Bolivia: Colquiri Tin Mine 1(2):4 Brazil: Cruzeiro Mine, Cruzeiro...Kellog 1(1):34W; 1(2):31W China: Lushi, Hunan Province 1(2):30W Columbia: Coco l(l):34W Czech Republic:...Australia 2(2):62 Colquiriite • Colquirii Mine, Bolivia 1(2):4 Conichalcite Mt Cobalt, Queensland 1(2):19...Leadhills-Wanlockhead area, Scotland l(l):31W Melanterite Teutonic Bore, Western Australia 2(1):26 Meurigite...Humbolt County, Nevada, USA 2(2):78W Lushi, Hunan Province, China 1(2):30W Magnet Mine, Tasmania 1(1):14
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14:131-132 Yuma County [Arizona] name changed [to La Paz County] (by W. E. Wilson) 14:266 Lost mines of...conicbalcite from [the Tuckers Tunnel prospect,] La Plata County. Colorado (by J. E Taggart & E. E. Fooro)... C. Rouse) 5:280-287 BOLIVIA The mineralogy of the department of Oruro, Bolivia (by R. B. Cook, Jr.)...occurrence of creedite at Colquiri, Inquisivi province, department of La Paz, Bolivia (by R. B. Cook, Jr.)...from Llallagua, Bolivia (by A. R. Kampf) 13:235-239 The El Drag6n mine, Potosf, Bolivia (by G. Grundmann
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Co. 0.002% Tellurium Te 0.0000002% Lanthanum La 0.002% Rhodium Rh 0.0000001 % Lead Pb 0.002%...Goslarite Gowerite Gypsum H ydrozincite Jameson.ice Melanterite Meneghinite Millerite Mordenite Natrolite ....Lautarite Lecontite Leonite Leowite Mallardite 37 Melanterite Mcndozite Metahewettite Mctarossile Meta vol...characteristics and often become different varieties. 41 Melanterite becomes siderolite, morenosite turns into retgersite...Lansfordite Lantanite Laumontite Mallardite Melanterite Minasragrite Mirabilite Morenosite Natron Phosphorroessleri
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Argentina, at Potosi and other localities in Bolivia, and in Peru. In Mexico found in Zacatecas and...quartz. In Spain at Almadenejos in Ciudad Real province, Castile. In France at Montpellier, H^rault, with...Analysis gave: CaO 19.41, (Y,Er)203 47.58, Ce02 0.83, (La,Di)203 1.55, ign. loss 1.57 (total 70.94; F not det...nature. Artificial crystals are — Halides 40 LA WRENCITE 9.2.3.1 cite DaubHe muriato Cry [FeCla]...in Antofagasta province and in the Cerro Challocollo in Tarapaca province; and in the La Pampa district
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Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...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...conditions in the gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern Ontario and Quebec. Some genetic problems
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ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico; (center) vivianite, Bolivia; (center, right) topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah;... ee .) ye a * “5 ——~ a ; Vie See ieeeir La del ve Mie ya rita aneremes |Liye ale =) LP...district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia; Czechoslovakia; Norway; Germany; Tsumeb; Namibia;...REFERENCE: Am. Min., 55:1447- 1448 (1970). AGARDITE-(La) (La,Ca)Cu,g(AsO.)3(OH).e3H2O Mixite Group CRYSTAL...on the eastern slope of the Central Cordillera, Bolivia. SELECTED REFERENCES: Aristarain, L. F.; and Hurlbut
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amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico; ( center) vivianite, Bolivia; ( center, right) topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah;...district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia; Czechoslovakia; Norway; Germany; Tsumeb; Namibia;...P21: a = 11.39, b = 5.47, c = 13.09, (3 = .9 8°26' la: a= 13.23, b = 5.632, c = 11.68, {3 = 98°42' 3 STRONGEST...DIFFRACTION LINES: P2,: 2.83 (100), 6.61 (90), 3.18 (90) la: 3.19 (100), 2.84 (100), 2.74 (100) OPTICAL COt~STANTS:...REFERENCE: Am. Min., 55:14471448 (1970). AGARDITE-(La) (La,Ca)Cu 6 (As04)3(0H) 6•3H 20 Mixite Group CRYSTAL
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Kings Mountain 78- Tampa Bay 79- 13oleo 80- L a Paz 81- Moctezuma 82- L o s Lamentos 83- Santa Eulalia;...malachite after copper (pseudomorphs). Red Cloud mine, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA: ! vanadinite; !! wulfenite —..., California, USA: • coalingite; karpatite; melanterite; mercury; * "pendletonite" (karpatite); uvarovite...aguilarite — San Carlos mine; ! amethyst; ! apophyllite — La Luz; ! argentite; ii calcite; 5 cassiterite — Santa...nciana mine;! stephanite — SanJose de las Muchachas, La Liz. Guerrero: ! amethyst — xis up to 20cm, groups:
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New South Wales. Found in sandstone at Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found...importanceareatSan Baldomero, Bolivia and in other areas in the vicinity of La Paz; also found in E. Germany...Alghero, Sardinia; other localities are Chile, Bolivia, Argentine and Peru. It is also found at Butte...Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan; from Sierra de Umango, La Rioja, Argentina; Harz Mountains, Germany; from the...Sweden; and in a copper ore at Sierra de Umango, La Rioja, Argentina. Sternbergite AgFe2S3 Sometimes
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Go Gu Dy Er F Gd Ga Ge GeOx Au OH In I IO3 Ir Fe La Pb Li Mg Mn Hg Mo MoOx Nd No. 787 3 41 233 60 221...(1989), 279. Acta Cryst. B32 (1976), 475. Agardite-(La), (Cu,Ca)gLa(As04)3(0H)g*31120, E Hex. Translucent...blue-green. Mira Flores mine, Huanuni dist., Oruro, Bolivia. H=?, Djj4= 2.85, D(;= 2.89, VHD 08. Foord & Taggart...Vitreous brownish-pink, red. Colquechaca, Potosi, Bolivia. H= 2-2.5, Djjj= 3.37, D(.= 3.51, VIG 01. Herzenberg... Am. Min. 53 (1968), 733. Allanite-(Ce), Ca(Ce,La)(Al, Fe)3(Si04)3(0H), Mon. Submetallic/pitchy/resinous
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CONSTANTS: a= 9.65 b = 8.79 C = 5.29 {3 = 107 .4° 3 LA TT ICE CONSTANTS: a= 10.41 b = 10.81 C = 8.93 3 STRONGEST...the lapis lazuli mine at Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. It forms the core of a crystal of...CLASS: 2 (m) SPACE GROUP: P2 1 (la) Z: 4 LATTICE CONSTANTS: (P2 1 ) (la) a=ll .39 a= 13.23 b = 5.47 b =...on the eastern slope of the Central Cordillera, Bolivia. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Aristarain, L. F., and Hurlbut...AMBATOARINITE (inadequately described mineral) Sr 5 (La, Ce, etc.) 10 (C03) 1103 (?) CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Orthorhombic(
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Potassium Praseodymium Radium Radon H In I Ir Fe Kr La Pb Li Lu Mg Mn Hg Mo Nd Ne Ni Nb N Os 0 Pd p Pt ...ASJS,\' Arc:hil-1.•s de Science G,•111.½·e Atti de/la Sod,•ta ltalicma di Scienze Natura/i e del Museo...Bulletin de fa Societe Beige de Geologie 8111/elinde la Societe franraise de Mineralogie 8111/etincie fa...STP CRHSASP Comptes Rendu Academie des Sciences de la terres et des p/anetes Chemica/ Lellers (Japan)...Ukrainskoi RSR. Seriya B. Geologiclmi. 1/imiclmi la Bio/ogichni Naulci Dolc/adyof the Academy of Sciences
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Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20, Foord, E.E...(1997): Mineral. Mag 61, (in press). hex., P63/m. The La-dominant species of agardite-Y. Ahlfeldite Red...minerals. Pakajake mine, Colquechaca, Potosf, Bolivia. hex., P63/m. Ramdohr, P. (1935): Zentralbl. Mineral...(1971): Am. Mineral. 56, 447. Allanite-(La) Alexandrite (La,Ca)2(Al,Fe?*,Fe?*)3(SiO4)3(OH), gem variety...Allanite-(Y) Bas(PO4)3Cl, hex., P63/m. Ca(Y,Ce,La)(Al,Fe?*,Fe**)3(SiO4)3(OH), mon., P2,/m. Named after
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AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH...British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...Monogr The Mineralogical Society, 1980 Bulletin de la Commission Geologique de Finlande XXXVii XXXViii...Bulletin de Minéralogie (pre-1978, vol. 101, Bulletin de la Société Francaise de Minéralogie et Crystallographie...South African Speleological Association Bulletin de la Société Belge de Geologie Boll. Sci. Cons. Acad.
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2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province. Ilmenite crystal clusters to 12 cm across have...Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings worked by local people on Zagi...attributions-the Xinig mine, Quinghai Province, and the Nan Dang mine, Guangxi Province-and those seen at Tucson were...enclosed by a rind of sandstone and chert (Zzyzx, 201 la). The first specimens of crystallized inesite from
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Mo 42 Tc y ·n,,....-n 88�9 5d 22 VA 57 La l...lnt/"IJt\u(TI 138� -Ii 00 IB IIB 27 Cu...near Laurion. Greece. See Agargite-(La). 20.4 . 1 4 Agardite-(La), (La,Ca)C�(AsO,h(OH)6.3H�O. Mixitc group...(TL) Kamariza. near Laurion. G reece. Named as the La analogue of agardite-(Y). 20.4. I 3 Agardite-(Y)...earth analogue of mixite. q. v.: see also Agardite-(La) and Goudcyitc. Hexagonal, a 1 3 .55. c 5.87 A. Z=2...25- 1 233 on synth. crystals). (TL) Colqucchaca. Bolivia. Named for F. Ahlfcld. Forms a series with the
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cpfragrticnra nigri fiin aq la'/ umnnciimrmcbrop cpconarocj.'Z firjcca bi/ berit...argentco ? pficc teamed vindicra fup:a corctoa cui via.? la uc tfacicm ercjcicca bif.fSt quts aufcm ejeeo btbenr...Cu Dy Er Eu F Gd Ga Ge Au Hf He Ho H In 1 Ir Fe Kr La Pb Li Lu Mg Mn Hg Mo atomic number 13 51 18 33 56...scale. Note the specimen's distance from the pivot, LA. Then immerse the specimen in cooled boiled water...water), which after a short calculation becomes LW/(LW-LA) include Clerici solution with a specific gravity
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fragmenta night fin aq ca.mifla fuerit.2 fe qs it aqilla la’ uerit incurrit mcbrog excoriat6c3.2 ficxca bi berir...massive material which is also found in India, Bolivia and Brazil. Sodalite may also be tumble-polished...New South Wales. Found in sandstone at Corocoro, Bolivia and at Cananea, copper is found Keweenaw ...ores of hydro- of economic in the vicinity of La There Sulphur S The commonest form of sulphur...South Dakota and Colorado. streak. rosickyite, Paz; also found in E. Germany. Major are important
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silicate. Most of it is found on the plains of the province of Eskisehir, in west-central Turkey. It is so...of Koogsberg, Norway. The "silver sidewalk" of the La Rose mine at Cobalt, Ontario, was almost solid silver...a treasure house of silver was Cerro Potosi in Bolivia, discovered in 1544. This conical volcanic peak...veins, and some is there yet. Because of Potosi, Bolivia was the leading silver country up to 1700, giving...metal. The Huanchaca and Chocaya districts in Bolivia still remain substantial silver producers, however
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sively for pipe as sepiolite, plains of the province of Eskisehir, in west-central porous that when...of Kongsberg, Norway. The "silver sidewalk" of the La Rose mine at Cobalt, Ontario, was almost solid silver...a treasure house of silver was Cerro Potosi in Bolivia, dis- covered in 1544. This conical volcanic peak...defined veins, and there yet. Because of Potosi, Bolivia was the leading silver country up to 1700, giving...metal. The Huanchaca and Chocaya districts in Bolivia still remain substantial silver producers, however
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alteration of the uraninite from Gordonia. Table la Estimated ratios in the unaltered uraninite Corresponding...the coast in such a way that the tin region of Bolivia and of the Far East are not of an equivalent age...associated with the Insiwa massif of north-eastern Cape Province were formed from an immiscible sulphide liquid...Koark, Geijer (1965) argued that in the sulphide province of central Sweden the sulphide mineralization...reporting a newly discovered tinbearing region in the province of Western Brazil, states that the Brazilian deposits
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francos des Argiles, Bulletin, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France. Gr^nlands...Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA. Sciences de la Terre, Nancy, Universite Ecole Nationale Superieure...Crocidolite or blue asbestos comes principally from Cape Province, Transvall, South Africa, where it occurs usually...other activators continues, including Al, Zr, Ce, La, and Pb (in addition to Mn and Sb). Other Properties...of Occurrence Commodity N E Greenland, (Ca,Ce,La) 2 (Al,Fe,Mg) 3 active blacks, Rare earths, radioand
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Claude GUILLEMIN, apres des etudes allant de la pharmacie a la mineralogie, commence sa carriere dans les...plumbocuprifere de la Garonne dans le Var et un petit ouvrage aussi rare que classique sur la microanalyse...appliquee a la determination des especes minerales. Entre en 1952 au laboratoire de Mineralogie de la Sorbonne...naturelles sur la mineralogie des phosphates, arseniates et vanadates de cuivre. Chef de Travaux dans la vieille...vieille «Sorbone» , ii y apprend l'enseignement et la joie de faire participer de plus jeunes a ses recherches
 
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