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(ō-lĭv′ə-nīt′)

A mineral, Cu₂(AsO₄)(OH), a basic arsenate of copper, that is brown, olive green, or gray in color and found in copper deposits.

[German Olivenit : Olive, olive (from Latin olīva; see olive) + -it, n. suff. (from Latin -īta; see -ite¹).]

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olivenite

(ɒˈlɪvɪˌnaɪt)

(Minerals) a green to black rare secondary mineral consisting of hydrated basic copper arsenate in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Cu2(AsO4)(OH)

[C19: from German Oliven(erz) olive (ore) + -ite¹]

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olivenite - rare green to black mineral consisting of hydrated copper arsenate that is found in copper deposits

mineral - solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition

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There were also annabergite from Laurium, Greece; kermesite from Pezinok, Slovakia; sphalerite from Banska Stiavnica (Schemnitz), Slovakia; chalcocite and olivenite from Cornwall, England; some top-class vanadinite specimens of recent vintage from Mibladen, Morocco; and a few dozen of the new mimetites from Badenweiler.

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In the InnSuites room of Fabre Minerals (mineral@fabreminerals.com), Jordi Fabre had 15 intriguing olivenite specimens which were found in 2006 at the Nubia mine, Ibitiara, Bahia, and are now being marketed for the first time.

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In Mechoui, adamite forms bottle-green, lens-shaped crystals, resembling zinc-rich olivenite, to 0.2 mm in dolomite cavities.

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There were Cornish and Russian specimens aplenty: chalcophyllite, torbernite, liroconite crystals to 1 cm, chalcocite crystals to 2 cm, olivenite, copper, crocoite, cerussite, feldspar crystals, etc.

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The Smale/Royal Society exhibit included the world's best liroconite and the world's best clinoclase "ball" of dark green crystals on matrix, as well as superb specimens of chalcocite, langite, olivenite, cornwallite and bournonite.

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At the Umbria de Ramonete prospect, chenevixite forms yellow-green to grass-green crusts and masses with olivenite, and powdery to nodular precipitates on quartz.

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

Associated minerals are: chalcocite, wulfenite, duftite, "[beta]-duftite" (calcian conichalcite), "cuproadamite" and olivenite.

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

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(4) Secondary arsenates including adamite, erythrite, karibibite, parasymplesite, pharmacosiderite, olivenite, schneiderhohnite, and villyaellenite from the Veta Negra mine near Los Loros.

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

Associated minerals are: cuprite, copper, silver, algodonite, domeykite, malachite, connellite, olivenite, theoparacelsite and gerhardtite.

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.