Well attestedNamed from the place
caracolite
noun · first attested 1886
It is named after the nearest town rather than the mine, which is why the mine's own name never entered mineralogy.
A rare lead sodium sulfate chloride from the oxidized zone of chlorine-rich lead deposits.
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Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1886
- Part of speech
- noun
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Caracoles, Antofagasta
- In English
caracolite
Websky described caracolite in 1886 from the Beatriz mine at Caracoles, a silver camp in the Sierra Gorda district of Chile's Antofagasta region. It occurs with boleite, pseudoboleite, bindheimite and anglesite. Caracoles was a boom camp of the 1870s silver rush and is largely abandoned today.
Chile
All 4 entries 3 more words from Chile
Chile saltpeterA desert where it almost never rains once held the world's nitrate supply.ChileamarilliteThe Atacama is so dry that soluble sulfates survive at the surface there instead of washing away.Tierra AmarillaChile saltpetreA fertilizer redrew the map of South America and then vanished from the economy.Chile