conichalcite

[‚kän·ə′kal‚sīt]

(mineralogy)

CaCu(AsO₄)(OH) A grass green to yellowish-green or emerald green, orthorhombic mineral consisting of a basic arsenate of calcium and copper.

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X-ray analysis first identified the species from this occurrence, where it is associated with chalcocite, lavendulan and conichalcite.

Famous mineral localities: Bou Azzer, Morocco

In the small group of specimens offered at Munich, attikaite may be seen (under magnification) as pale blue-green crystals and spherical aggregates on mixed jarosite/"limonite" matrix, with microcrystals of conichalcite and arsenocrandallite.

Munich show 2006

Vein Minerals Adamite Goethite Arsenopyrite Gold Austinite Hemimorphite Barite Malachite Beudantite Mimetite Calcite Smithsonite Cerussite Sphalerite Chalcopyrite Plumbojarosite Chlorargyrite Pyrite Chrysocolla Rosasite Conichalcite Tetrahedrite Fluorite Willemite Galena Wulfenite

Famous mineral localities: San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico

Whereas jarosite and iron arsenates are more abundant in the central part of the lens, copper minerals, especially copper carbonates and conichalcite, occur predominantly in the peripheral zone.

Secondary minerals of the Mazarron-Aguilas mining district, Murcia Province, Spain

Associated minerals are: pharmacosiderite, olivenite, conichalcite, jarosite, arseniosiderite, scorodite, malachite, azurite, chlorargyrite, mixite and lavendulan.

Abstracts of new mineral descriptions

Associated minerals were olivenite, conichalcite, scorodite, erythrite, roselite, brandtite, parasymplesite, pharmacosiderite, adamite, cuproadamite, schneiderhohnite, and karibibite.

Abstracts of the 24th Annual Tucson Mineralogical Symposium. (Minerals of the Andes)

Occurrence: Associated minerals are: beudantite, cuprian adamite, conichalcite, wulfenite, quartz and chalcocite.

Abstracts of new mineral descriptions

Occurrence: Associated minerals are: olivenite, conichalcite, clinotyrolite, cornubite, kolfanite, pharmacosiderite, gerhardtite, atacamite, gilmarite, wallkilldellite-(Fe), cuprite, domeykite, algodonite and native copper.

Abstracts of new mineral descriptions

At the Cassagna mine good microcrystals of braunite associated with conichalcite crystals have been collected.

THE VAL GRAVEGLIA MANGANESE DISTRICT, LIGURIA, ITALY

Other minerals in the dump material are: cobaltaustinite, scorodite, bariumpharmacosiderite, olivenite, conichalcite, erythrite, arsenjosiderite, mimetite, beudantite, silver, bismuth, acanthite, galena, pyrite and skutterudite.

Rappoldite

Occurrence: On the 30-foot level coating surface and filling thin fractures in limonitic gossan; associated with calcian mixite, conichalcite, chrysocolla, azurite, gold and quartz.

ABSTRACTS OF NEW MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS

Juanitaite occurs at one occurrence as square crystal plates with rounded corners in sheaflike subparallel aggregates and rosettes associated with conichalcite and mixite, scattered over fracture surfaces on limonitic matrix, and in another occurrence with connellite, tyrolite and azurite on quartz.