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⇱ Enargite from Laurani Mine, Sica Sica Municipality, Aroma Province, La Paz, Bolivia


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Enargite from
Laurani Mine, Sica Sica Municipality, Aroma Province, La Paz, Bolivia

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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Enargite
Formula:Cu3AsS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enargite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Laurani Mine, Sica Sica Municipality, Aroma Province, La Paz, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:287251
Long-form Identifier:1:3:287251:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Enargite
52.8km (32.8 miles) San Pablo Mine (Carmen Mine), Cerro La Joya, La Joya mining district, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
68.9km (42.8 miles) Colquiri mine, Colquiri, Inquisivi Province, La Paz, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3(OH)]2(H2O)8, A NEW MINERAL SPECIES FROM LAURANI, BOLIVIA Werner H. PAAR Department of Materials Engineering...an epithermal Cu–Au–Ag deposit at Laurani, near Sica Sica, Bolivia. This deposit is the type locality...and quartz. It formed by oxidation of Sb-bearing enargite in an arid environment. Traces of pyrite, covellite...IR spectroscopy, X-ray data, Laurani, Sica Sica, Bolivia. Sommaire La braithwaiteïte, NaCu5(Ti4+Sb5...découvert dans la zone supergène d’un gisement épithermal à Cu–Au–Ag à Laurani, près de Sica Sica, en Bolivie
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Report (issue)
X-Ray Diffraction Pattern: Laurani Mine, Aroma Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia. 7.34 (100), 3.626 (52)... 100.00 (1) Laurani mine, Laurani District, Aroma Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia; average electron...high-sulfidation type deposit, with a pyrite-enargite core, enargite-tennantite middle zone, and a sphalerite-silver...chalcocite (Laurani); edwardsite, niedermayrite, lazaridisite (Tsumeb) Distribution From the Laurani mine, Laurani...Laurani District, Aroma Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia [TL]. At the Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Name: For
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Report (issue)
6754(6) α = 106.973(1)° X-ray Powder Pattern: Laurani, Bolivia. 9.825(100), 2.947(60), 5.887(50), 4.635(30)...63 45.30 5.25 26.13 2.04 10.65 100.00 (1) Laurani, Bolivia; average of 4 electron microprobe analyses...hydrothermal enargite Association: Lammerite, lavendulan-lemmereite. Distribution: Laurani, near Sica Sica...Sica, Bolivia. Name: Honors Richard S.W. Braithwaite (b. 1930), chemist and mineralogist at the University...3(OH)]2(H2O)8, a new mineral species from Laurani, Bolivia, Can. Mineral., 47, 947–953. (2) Hawthorne
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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
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metallogenetic Epochs and Provinces of Bolivia The Tin-Province (Part I) The Metallogenetic Provinces...the Altiplano (Part II) F. A~LFELD Cochabamba, Bolivia Partf. An attempt is made to solve the relationships...formation of ore deposits using the Bolivian tin-province as an example. In the eastern Cordillera we are...tin-silver mineralization is discussed. Within the tin-province three metallogenic epochs are recognized, with...down-faulted and consequently preserved. The polymetallic province of the Altiplano contains subvolcanic ore deposits
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Report (issue)
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...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(alunite), Stage 2A high-sulfidation enargite mineralization (enargite, argyrodite, sphalerite, pyrite, barite)...argyrodite (up to 6.95 wt % Ge) and Ge-bearing enargite (up to 2189 ppm Ge). Co-existing sphalerite has...In at Mt Carlton. Analyzed reference samples of enargite from seven similar deposits worldwide have average...germanium; gallium; indium; critical elements; LA-ICP-MS; enargite; sphalerite 1. Introduction Germanium (Ge)...Tsumeb in Namibia, Kipushi in D.R. Congo and the Apex Mine in Utah; e.g., [7]), syngenetic or early diagenetic
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu ENARGITE Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County...group is the subject of this column—enargite. The name enargite is derived from the Greek έναργ ής...(001). Enargite also occurs in granular or massive habits. One of the characteristics of enargite crystals...are the striations along prism faces. Although enargite has perfect {110} cleavage, it also has distinct...indistinct cleavage. Twinning is common on {320}, and enargite may occur as interpenetrating trillings having
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Report (issue)
S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geologico de Bolivia in cooperation with the Trade Development Program...............xi Site Descriptions Department of La Paz..................................... 1 Department...the U.S. Geological Survey-Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia as part of the Mineral Resource Evaluation of the...of the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia located in their main office in La Paz. All of the data presented...States, and the Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia in La Paz, Bolivia. This report is an edited version of
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOLCANIC DOME-HOSTED PRECIOUS METAL DEPOSITS IN BOLIVIA CHARLES G. CUNNINGHAM, U.S. GeologicalSurvey,959...Petrolero,Piso10, Av. 16 de Julio 1616, El Prado,La Paz, Bolivia Josf•PINTOV•SQUEZ, UnitedNationsDepartmentof...r Development(DTCD), Casilla 2096, SantaCruz, Bolivia AND GEORGE E. ERICKSEN U.S. GeologicalSurvey...underlainchieflyby a thick sequenceof southwestern Bolivia are associated with volcanic intenselyfoldedlower...Introduction lera Occidental near the western border of Bolivia, andthe world-famousPulacayosilverdepositandthe
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Report (issue)
Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA With a section on...Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia I by U.S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia; with a section...mineral resources-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental. 3. Geology-Altiplano. 4. Geology-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental...Geological Survey (U.S.) II. Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia. Ill. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1975 [TN39.A4] 557.3s--dc20...cooperation between the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia and the U.S. Geological Survey. The geologic research
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Catalog/List
crystal about 1cm size, twinned crystal ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £25 3. GOETI-TITE...masses, covered in small crystals X 1cm £48 Jocao Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais Brazil 3.5cm 6. GORMANITE...with 2mm colourless crystals Ix 1.5 inch Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais £48 8. ARAGONITE...inches £18 Afghanistan £15 Knipes mine Ayrshire 13. ENARGITE pure dark brown crystalline mass lxl...inch, from old collection (Taplin) Laurani Mine, la Paz, Bolivia £18 14. WEBERITE rich orange mass on
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Report (article/chapter)
plugs) in western Mexico, the western U.S.A. and Bolivia and adjoining northwest Argentina. Their origfn...Copper is less plentiful, but commonly occurs as enargite where advanced argillic alteration is developed...northwest it impinges on the Sonoran Basin and Range province and in the southeast, south of the Trans-Mexico...Chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite dominate at the lowest mine levels. Gulf of Fonseca area, E1Salvador-Nicaragua-Honduras...those of silver. Altiplano-Puna region, Peru-Bolivia-Chile-Argentina = " ~trt" ~ -I ~-~ Alluvium
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4, 72--74 (1969) Compositional Variations in Enargite and Luzonite G. SPRINGER Institut ffir Mineralogie...were made of enargite and luzonite from various localities. It was shown that enargite can contain as...phases luzonite and famatinite. The compositions of enargite and of luzonite-famatinite solid solution were...structures: the orthorhombic form of CuaAsS 4 is called enargite, tetragonal CuaAsS 4 is luzonite and tetragonal...solution between luzonite and does not exist and that enargite is a high temperature modification of luzonite
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with a derivative of the sphalerite structure. Enargite is an orthorhombic analogue of luzonite with a...Weinbaum 1934). The Se-analogue of both luzonite and enargite is not known. The complete solid-solution series...dump material from the “No. 11A” (Bytíz) uranium mine. This uranium and base-metal district is situated...Quiruvillca, La Libertad (Peru), Julcani, Huancavelica (Peru), Laurani, La Paz (Bolivia); famatinite...(RRUFF) occurrences: Quiruvillca, La Libertad (Peru), Mohawk mine, Nevada (USA). Luzonite (Sejkora unpublished
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
resources. Resumen E1 presente articulo describe la distribuei6n a gnin eseala de algunos tipos de yacirnientos...ore, potasio y fosfatos. Se haeen eomparaeiones con la distribuei6n de 6stos tipos de dep6sitos en otros...fundamentales referentes a la g6nesis de yacimientos minerales. La evideneia sugiere que la mayoria de los yaeimientos...prineipalmente a procesos que tuvieron lugar en la parte superior de la eorteza terrestre. M~s a6n, pareee que...afecta la distribuei6n conocida de los diferentes tipos de dep6sitos es el nivel basra el cual la erosi6n
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3(OH)]2(H2O)8, a new mineral species from Laurani, Bolivia, Can. Mineral., 47, 947–953. F.C. Hawthorne...crystals in a sample of silicified volcanic rock from Laurani in the Bolivian Ag-Sn belt. The exact origin of...“chlorite,” anatase after rutile, small laths of enargite, pyrite, and trace covellite. Secondary minerals...(2009) Fluoro-potassichastingsite from the Greenwood mine, Orange County, New York: a new endmember calcic...waste dumps of the Greenwood (Patterson) iron mine. The mine, located in Hudson Highlands, in Harriman State
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wakefieldite-(La) is a new mineral species from the long abandoned Glücksstern Mine near the Gottlob...Thuringia, Germany. The mine was a source of Mn and Fe ores until 1855. wakefieldite(La) occurs in hydrothermal...low-temperature hydrothermal fluids. wakefieldite(La) is very rare—only 10 crystals have been found to...prism {100}, and possibly a dipyramid. wakefieldite-(La) has a white streak, an adamantine luster, is transparent...composition is 4.703 g/cm3, and 4.727 g/cm3. wakefieldite-(La) is uniaxial (+), ω and ε > 1.90, medium birefringence
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
high sulfidation mineralization at Kelly includes enargite, tennantite, electrum, and precious metal tellurides...commencement of underground mining operations in 1931 until mine closure in 1993, the Acupan and Itogon mines exploited...sulfidation state epithermal gold veins at Kelly Au-Ag mine Small diorite body at Baguio Gold correlated with...banded veins: type A chalcedony (restricted to higher mine levels, commonly occurring as clasts in later-formed...et al., 1963). At the southern end of the Acupan mine, the 400 and 500 series epithermal veins have crosscut
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Book
North Adelaide, S. Australia W. F . H A E D E R L E , La Oroya, Peru H. D. HOLLAND, Princeton, N . J . H ...geochemical tin provinces of the East Indies or Bolivia) force an answer in the terms of the second question...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border
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Book (volume)
and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...preferred position. in the figure labeled San Jose, Bolivia, for the brachydome v read w. 461 insert superscript...Black Forest read Odenwald. 14, down for Rhine Province read Westphalia. 16, down for in the Tirol read...read AmBnXp Type. 746, 747 under Anal, for La^O read La.203. in caption to analysis no. l,for Al2Ta20...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ore bodies of the Agan deposit do not contain enargite and luzonite—the main indicator minerals for Au...Alto Chicama Yanacocha Pierina Lagunas Norte Gabi La Colosa Pueblo Viejo Country Laos Indonesia Papua...VOLKOV et al. (a) Alk alin e Alkali calcic Su La K2O, % 4 Ju lc Ca line a alk Go Cq In PP Ro...(Go) Goldifeld; (In) El Indio; (Ju) Julanchi; (La) Laurani, (Le) Lepanto, (Mo) Motomboto; (Na) Nansatsu...and igneous rocks of the reference HS deposits: (1) La Colosa (Lesage et al., 2013); (2) Yanacocha (Longo
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Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina...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)...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
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Book
Massive Indigo-blue Submetallic to resinous Enargite Cu3AsS4 Orthorhombic Prismatic crystals Greyish-black...white (often tinted) Vitreous Ancylite (Sr,Ca)3(Ce,La)4 (C03)7(0H)4.3H20 Orthorhombic Prismatic crystals...Colourless, yellow or brown Resinous Monazite (Ce,La,Yt,Th)(POd) Monoclinic Prismatic crystals Yellow...White (often tinted) Vitreous Allanite (Ca,Ce,La,Na)2 (AI,Fe,Be,Mn,Mg)3 (Si04)3(0H) Monoclinic Tabular...ia (Joachimstal). Germany- Saxony (Him melfurst Mine near Freiberg). Mexico— Chihuahua. With argentite
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Massive Indigo-blue ISubmetallic to resinous Enargite Cu,AsS, Orthorhombic Prismatic crystals Greyish-black...Colourless or white Vitreous Ancylite (Sr,Ca),(Ce,La), Orthorhombic Prismatic crystals Variable Vitreous...Colourless, yellow or brown Resinous Monazite (Ce,La,Yt,Th)(PO,) Monoclinic Prismatic crystals Yellow...Fluorite SELENIDE Tiemannite SILICATES Allanite (Ca,Ce,La,Na), (Al.Fe,Be,Mn,Mg), (Si0,),(0H) Alleghanyite...ia Saxony (Him (Joachimstal). Germany melfurst Mine near Freiberg). Chihuahua. With argentite. Mexico—
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