| | Report (issue) | 1890(9) X-ray Powder Pattern: Oficina Alemania, Chile. 10.29 (100), 3.456 (35), 2.865 (35), 2.594 (30)...35 Total 100.71 100.00 • (1) Oficina Lautaro, Chile. (2) Na3 (NO3 )(SO4 ) H2 O. Occurrence: Widespread...cavities in cemented regolith, in an arid region (Chile); in saline arid soil (Death Valley, California...Association: Nitratine, niter, blödite, mirabilite, epsomite, halite, anhydrite. Distribution: In Chile, in...in Antofagasta, from Oficina Lautaro, Pampa del Toro, Taltal district, in thick veins from Chuquicamata | | | Report (issue) | Nitratine NaNO3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group:...halite, gypsum. Distribution: In Chile, in the Tarapacá district, and elsewhere along the coast, economically...aggregating billions of tons; also at Chuquicamata, Antofagasta. Other studied occurrences include: in...in the Los Manos Cave, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. In the USA, in Death Valley and along the Armagosa | | | Book | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma | | | Book (volume) | Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless...Bandylite 27 CuB(OH)4F Locality: Palestina, Atacama, Chile. Description: Blue crystals from the association...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description: | | Kahlenberg, Volker, Tessadri, Richard, Tribus, Martina, Schmidmair, Daniela, Perfler, Lukas, Haefeker, Udo (2014) Ca2Mg(NO3)6×12H2O–structural investigations on a new compound retrieved from chimney deposits of a combined heat and power plant. Mineralogy and Petrology, 108 (5) 633-643 doi:10.1007/s00710-014-0322-x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | info/ima). Although compounds such as niter (KNO3) or nitratine (NaNO3) can form large exploitable deposits of...thousands or even billions of tons (Chuquicamata district, Chile), the occurrence of most of the natural...et al. 1975), bassanite (Weiss and Bräu 2009), nitratine (Paul and Pryor 1972) and schlossmacherite (Schmetzer...could be identified without any doubt: NaNO3 (nitratine). The remaining very low intensity lines could...Ca2Mg(NO3)6×12H2O: 72(2) wt%, anhydrite: 16(2) wt%, nitratine: 8(2) wt% and bassanite: 4(2) wt%. According to | | | Book | nuggets Include one of 153kg (3371b), found in Chile, and one of 93kg (2051b), found in Hill End (Australia)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...Butte (Montana, USA), Bisbee (Arizona, USA), Chuquicamata (Chile), Tsumeb (Namibia), Peru and Russia. Colour:...quantities are mined in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia and Zambia. Colour: copper-red or bronze...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA) | | | Book | nuggets Include one of 153kg (3371b), found in Chile, and one of 93kg (2051b), found in Hill End (Australia)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...Butte (Montana, USA), Bisbee (Arizona, USA), Chuquicamata (Chile), Tsumeb (Namibia), Peru and Russia. Colour:...quantities are mined in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia and Zambia. Colour: copper-red or bronze...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA) | | | Book | : i ye "Pe 7 a pre \ 2 , ' : 8 lilbap el ' ae “ay oe ar DISCARDED Gems« Minerals Richmond...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm | | | Book | org/details/geologyofchile0000unse The Geology of Chile • The Geologica l Society of London Books Editorial...T. & GIBBO, s, W . (eds) 2007 . The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society, London. CHARRIER, R., PINTO...the Andean Orogeo in Chile. Jn: MORENO, T. & GrnsoNs, W. (eds) The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society...Society, London, 21-114. The Geology of Chile EDITED BY TERESA MORENO Earth Sciences Institute 'J aume...\ii . Grosjean 13. Field excursion from central Chile to the Atacama De<,crt. W. Gibbons & -1. Moreno | | | Book | symbols are used: E — approved by the CNMMN [1466]; El — discredited by the CNMMN [248]; E — “Grandfather”...K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...brownish-yellow, green, white, etc. Chanarcillo, Chile. H= 3.5, Djj4= 4.434, Dq= 4.45, VHB 04. Friedel...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt | | | Book (edition) | 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)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....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 | | | Book | Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and in the states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua,...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....crystals from Landsberg, W. Germany; and Coquimbo, Chile. Diamond C The transparent, crystalline form of...areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains | | | Book | 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...The Canadian Mineralogist 2 val ( ew ‘ )) AT “EL aye ia a ae daaYepAoNpte Nee Y ; Limonite, Eldorado | | | Book | are so-called 'hotspot' volcanoes, such as Mauna Loa in Hawaii, which well up over fo untainlike concentrations...Paricutin. Shield volcanoes such as Hawaii's Mauna Loa are sha llow, dome-shaped volcanoes formed \.vhere...of granite than these peaks in Torres de! Paine, Chile. The softer country rock into which the granite...out of the water first. , .2.t'l UNDERSTAN DING MINE RALS HOVV MINERALS FORM Minerals are the natural...thicker E.g barite, linante. r& iJ NDE RSTA NDING MINE RAL S MI NERAL PROPERTIES: PHYSICAL Every 1nineral | | | Book (edition) | Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...Pelican Dives rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise...Juab County, and with austinite at the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utal1; in Inyo, San Bernardino,...Simon mine, Mineral AENIGMATITE County , Nevada. Magnificent specimens occur at the Ojuela mine, Mapimi | | | Journal (issue) | Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government | | | Report (issue) | ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...International border -----·- Departmental border 22 + Antofagasta ! i A RGENT A 0 100 0 640 200 100 600...BY JAROSLAV HYRSL AND ALFREDO PETROV The Poopo District ................................................in Oruro ... 26 BY ROBERT B. COOK The Morococala Mine ............................................... | | | Book (edition) | Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...TY EP ie is eet i fro 7 tin tas o/iotewy” el ry: ae ~“ytivee Pahaiecl apeaivent 7 1d sadinee...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet | | | Book | illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of...Badenweiler — Schwarzwald (FRG), in large masses in (Chile) and (Bolivia) e Application: copper ore. Kermesite... Andreasberg (FRG), Pribram (Czechoslovakia), (Chile), (Mexico), (USA) and (USSR) e Application: silver...200 kg (USSR), San Sebastian (Mexico), Coquimbo (Chile), Red Cloud (Colorado) and Calaveras Co. (California) | | | Book (edition) | Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia; | | | Book | Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of...Badenweiler - Schwarzwald (FRG), in large masses in (Chile) and (Bolivia)• Application: copper ore. Kermesite... Andreasberg (FRG), Prfbram (Czechoslovakia), (Chile), (Mexico), (USA) and (USSR) • Application: silver...200 kg (USSR), San Sebastian (Mexico), Coquimbo (Chile), Red Cloud (Colorado) and Calaveras Co. (California)...- aggregation of crysta ls from pil e of a coal mine; Kladn o (Czechoslovakia - width of field 15 mm) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Both in the oxidation zone at Kamariza mining district nr. Laurion, Greece, as spherical aggregates or...115, 360. First found at Alacran, Pampa Larga, Chile by A. H. Clark in 1970 (rejected by IMA because...1984. Schweiz. Min. Pet. Mitt. 64, 11. At the Clara mine, nr. Oberwolfach, central Black Forest, W. Germany...M. 50, 681. At the dumps of the disused Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, as monomineralic crusts...museum specimens of Te-bearing ore from the Good Hope mine, Vulcan, Colorado, USA, as grey metallic, opaque | | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...BD ' REVEM : Ri : Revie wis ity ey ist RMS EL Oe mala | ROBB & . = id ohlane nerwiplapinion)...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Calaveras, Amador, and El Dorado Cos.—exceptional crystallized specimens from Placerville, El Dorado Co., Greenville | | | Book | from blocks that didn't drop. The Basin and Range Province of the south-west USA (right) formed in this way...are so-called ‘hot¬ spot’ volcanoes, such as Mauna Loa in FFawaii, which well up over fountain¬ like concentrations...Paricutin. Shield volcanoes such as Hawaii’s Mauna Loa are shallow, dome-shaped volcanoes formed where fluid...of molten include southern Africa’s Karoo and Province erupted less than three magma which burns through...of granite than these peaks in Torres del Paine, Chile. The softer country rock into which the granite | | | Book | In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip of a mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for the...are in northern Chile, where the principal mineral is nitratine, also known as Chile saltpetre or soda |
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