 | | Book | | MINERAL RESOURCES OF PORTUGAL Text prepared by Luís Plácido Martins CONTENTS 5 7 11 19 20 21...MINING BACKGROUND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF MINING IN PORTUGAL PRECIOUS METALS Galicia - Trás-os-Montes Zone...Business in Portugal KEY REFERENCES 3 PREAMBLE A complex and diversified geology endows Portugal with a...ornamental stones and some other mineral substances. Portugal is presently one of the main UE producers of copper...sulphide deposits like Neves-Corvo and Aljustrel, in Portugal, Rio Tinto, Sotiel, Los Frailes, Las Cruces, etc |  | Arfè, Giuseppe, Mondillo, Nicola, Balassone, Giuseppina, Boni, Maria, Cappelletti, Piergiulio, Di Palma, Tommaso (2017) Identification of Zn-Bearing Micas and Clays from the Cristal and Mina Grande Zinc Deposits (Bongará Province, Amazonas Region, Northern Peru) Minerals, 7 (11) 214 doi:10.3390/min7110214 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in origin, as in the case of the Preguiça mine in southern Portugal [28], or associated with late stages...weathered to a nonsulfide assemblage, consisting of goethite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, and hydrozincite....smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, chalcophanite, goethite, and greenockite [35]. Smithsonite prevails over...whereas hemimorphite ranges from 5 to 60 wt %. Goethite has concentrations that vary between ~2 and ~35...sedimentation, the samples still contain quartz, calcite, goethite, smithsonite, hydrozincite, and hemimorphite, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was recognized for the first time in the Uberroth Mine, near Friendensville, in the Saucon Valley of Pennsylvania...zinc et d’aluminum hydrate” in the Vieille-Montagne Mine (Belgium). The mineral was definitely validated...low-temperature hydrothermal fluids, as in Preguiça mine, Southern Portugal (Will et al. 2014). Baileychlore,...recognized in association with willemite in the Franklin mine, New Jersey (U.S.A.). Up to date, in clearly hy...K-Feldspar Calcite Dolomite Illite Kaolinite Goethite YA-01 YA-02 YA-05 YA-13 YA-20 MET1-26 – – – |  | Mondillo, Nicola, Accardo, Mariafrancesca, Boni, Maria, Boyce, Adrian, Herrington, Richard, Rumsey, Mike, Wilkinson, Clara (2020) New insights into the genesis of willemite (Zn2SiO4) from zinc nonsulfide deposits, through trace elements and oxygen isotope geochemistry. Ore Geology Reviews, 118. 103307 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.103307 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | formal description of the mineral from the Altenberg mine (Moresnet, 69 Belgium) and he named the new mineral...et al., 110 1999; Olivo et al., 2018), Preguiça (Portugal; Gilg, 2005), La Calamine (Belgium; Gilg...(Coppola et al., 2008). The Altenberg-Vieille Montagne mine, 289 also known as La Calamine, was the largest...Mumbwa area, one-mile north of the Sable Antelope mine (38 miles NNW of Mumbwa, 320 Kafue district) in...willemite 349 samples collected from the Excelsior mine consist of radial crystal aggregates, with 350 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Iglesiente district (Sardinia, Italy) and Vila Ruiva (Portugal), as well as from the silicate-hosted ores of...Sardinia, Broken Hill — New South Wales, Vila Ruiva — Portugal, Freihung — Bavaria) and from slag minerals formed...crystals with galena SPE-28 ce White crystals with goethite MSM 52509 ce White twinned crystal on galena MSM...ce Clear twin crystals with goethite HAM-1 ce Acicular crystals on goethite MPB-1 ce White fibrous crystals...Mn-oxide G11959a SAM G2184 sm Clear scalenohedra on goethite SAM 20435 sm Clear crystal K2259 K2266 K2265 K2264 |  | Choulet, F., Buatier, M., Barbanson, L., Guégan, R., Ennaciri, A. (2016) Zinc-rich clays in supergene non-sulfide zinc deposits. Mineralium Deposita, 51 (4) 467-490 doi:10.1007/s00126-015-0618-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | base metal sulfides (Fig. 1b, c). At the Bou Arhous mine, located in the footwall of the BGrand Accident^...exploration campaigns in the 1960s, the Bou Arhous mine has been exploited by Managem since the early 2000s...Bou Arhous Cu Mine Zn Zn Pb Zn N32°16’ Pb Pb Pb Pb Pb N32°17’ Iboughalene Zn Mine Arhous Range...W3°47’ Pb Pb Pb Pb Atchana “Grand Accident” Mine N32°15’ Pb N32°15’ Thrust Figure 1C Pb 1...W3°44’ N W3°43’ W3°42’ W3°41’ S c Bou Arhous Mine Massive limestone (undifferentiated Sinemurian) |
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Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja, Portugal