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Cuprite from
Pucará de Turi, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Smelter
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pucará de Turi, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1471683
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1471683:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
54.5km (33.8 miles) ⓘSan Bartolo deposit, San Pedro de Atacama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
55.7km (34.6 miles) ⓘSan Bartolo mine, San Bartolo district, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
64.5km (40.1 miles) ⓘChuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
67.0km (41.7 miles) ⓘEl Abra Mine, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Sapiains, Pía, Valentina Figueroa, Frances Hayashida, Diego Salazar, Andrew Menzies, Cristián González, Rodrigo Loyola, Beau Murphy, Juan González, César Parcero-Oubiña, and Andrés Troncoso. (2021) "Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the Atacama Desert: Refining the Protocol for the Study of Archaeological Copper Minerals through the Case Study of Pukara de Turi" Minerals 11, no. 12: 1402. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11121402
 
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