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Examples
- Smithsonite occurs as a secondary mineral in the weathering or oxidation zone of zinc-bearing ore deposits.
- Delafossite is usually a secondary mineral that crystallizes near oxidized copper and is rarely a primary mineral.
- Erythrite occurs as a secondary mineral in the oxide zone of Co Ni As bearing mineral deposits.
- It occurs as a secondary mineral in mineral gossans, coal deposits, phosphate rich pegmatites and cave guano deposits.
- There are also conical-shaped stalactites, secondary mineral deposits of silica and earthen deposits covering the walls and ceiling.
- Devilline is a rare and unusual secondary mineral found in the oxidized portions of copper sulfide ore deposits.
- Copiapite is strictly a secondary mineral forming from the weathering or oxidation of iron sulfide minerals or sulfide-rich coal.
- It occurs as a secondary mineral in the oxidized weathering zone of hydrothermal uranium ore deposits which contain arsenic.
- At the Tanza location it occurs as a secondary mineral formed by the oxidation of native bismuth or bismuthinite.
- It is a rare secondary mineral found in complex granite pegmatites where it forms by weathering of earlier phosphate minerals.