Szenicsite: A new copper molybdate from Inca de Oro, Atacama, Chile

Carl A. Francis, Lawrence C. Pitman,* and David E. Lange Harvard Mineralogical Museum

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INTRODUCTION

In January 1993 Terry and Marissa Szenics of Santiago collected a beautiful green mineral, thought to be lindgrenite, at a small copper mine in northern Chile and through the Aurora Mineral Corporation submitted it to the Harvard Mineralogical Museum for identification. An X-ray diffraction pattern showed that the mineral is neither lindgrenite nor any other species in the Powder Diffraction File. Subsequent…