 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 45056 rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth America...anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly in the collection of...worldwide, the Acushnet quarry (also currently known as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County... The metamorphic rocks exposed in the Acushnet quarry are a mixture of schists, gneisses, and intruded...of apatite-bearing Alpine clefts is the Keystone quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania. Colorless, transparent, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | didn’t have gold, he left with a better idea of what real gold is and how to determine it in the field. Let’s...muscovite with albite, 2.8 cm high, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This...Newry (King and Foord 1994). The Black Mountain quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, was one of the biggest...fine transparent, gold-brown color. The BB No. 7 quarry in Norway, also in Oxford County, has produced...and quartz. In nearby New Hampshire, the Chandler quarry, Chatham, Carroll County, has provided some excellent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Barcelona Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts (Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona) and was...Panasqueira mines, Panasqueira, Covilhã, Castelo Branco district, Portugal. was, without doubt, one of the greatest...Panasqueira mines, Panasqueira, Covilhã, Castelo Branco district, Portugal. Downloaded by [University of Birmingham]...affects other great collections was needed: What to do with it? Should they limit themselves to conserving...for the Folch family to achieve what they wished to do. All that was needed was to find a method of managing |  | | Book | | law. Please purchase only authorized editions and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy............................................. 26 Portugal ................................................general characteristics. Because no single book can do justice to the vast literature in this field, the...to increase somewhat in 2003. India and Pakistan do not report production figures, but for 2002 their...the products of radioactive decay, primarily lead, do not have as high an affinity for oxygen as uranium |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | almost unique specimen. James Elliott photo 10 Fluorite and quartz, 21 cm aross, Planggenstock, Göschenenalp...sulky teenagers and get them so turned on, it’s got real potential! — Salim Eddé All captions were written...must expect a return on this investment”. Indeed I do, as there is no such thing as a free lunch in this...seeing them in person. James Elliott photo N DO N Fluorite. Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Kanton Uri, Switzerland...32 x 26 cm, mim specimen #2102: Huge octahedral Fluorite crystal with very well defined faces and edges |  | | Journal (issue) | | that required four days of travel down the Serra do Rio do Rastro, and two days on horseback. On the route...Álvaro himself). His collection was wonderful—a real treat to behold. He had a coffee table with a sliding...euclase, scapolite, quartz (amethyst), andalusite, fluorite and fluorapatite. INTRODUCTION BY CARLOS CORNEJO...gave rise to villages, and ports such as Figueira do Rio Doce, established for the exchange of goods....Ferreira, in his Diccionario Geographico das Minas do Brazil (1885), wrote: Figure 2. Title page of Sebatião |  | | Catalog/List | | other lots I will need to use a separate bid sheet. Do you want to receive an email, text message, or fax...cut bid). Any podium, fax, phone or mail bids that do not conform to a full or half increment will be rounded...avenues by which bids may be submitted, there is the real possibility of a tie for the high bid. In the event...is what just might be one of the finest Elmwood Fluorite combinations – a true show stopper. There are...[Hoppel # D1280] Estimate: $1,000-$2,000 53005 FLUORITE Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn |  | | Journal (issue) | | dematoid variety) from the abandoned Sferliin asbestos quarry in the Malenco Valley, following in the footsteps...527-537. GHIARA, M. R., and PETII, C. (2008) Il Real Museo Mineralogico dell' Universita Federico II...PEZZOTIA, F. (1999) Selvino e Zogno: quartz and fluorite . Rivista Mineralogica ltaliana, 23 (3), 146-156...Sassari, Sardinia, Italy. Roberto Appiani photo. FLUORITE 10.3 cm (with crystals to 3.8 cm on edge), from...crystals to 5.8 cm on edge), from the Azcarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain. Roberto Appiani photo. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Geochemistry of the Panasqueira tungsten-tin deposit, Portugal. GEOLOGICA ULTRAIECTINA Mededelingen van het...DEPOSIT, PORTUGAL X. VB. 12 GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE PANASQUEIRA TUNGSTEN-TIN DEPOSIT, PORTUGAL GEOCHEMIE...GEOCHEMIE VAN DE PANASQUEIRA WOLFRAAM-TIN AFZETTING, PORTUGAL (met een samenvatting in het nederlands) PROEFSCHRIFT...introduktie in de tin-wolfraam afzettingen van Portugal, de daarmee gerelateerde gespecialiseerde granieten...would like to thank the Beralt Tin and Wolfram Portugal, S.A.R.L. for their undergound permission and |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2020 Articles The White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio ...............Wilson COVER: FLUORITE crystal on celestine, 8 cm (see page 672), from the White Rock quarry, Clay Center...trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and Russell’s mineral collection...or vice versa. To our knowledge, Android devices do not have anything like the Apple iBooks app, so you...computer using a USB cable. Then all you have to do is drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste the pdf into the |  | | Catalog/List | | 35% of surface. Classic U.S.A. location. £25 10. FLUORITE (8cm x 7cm x 8cm) Muzquiz, San Iuis Polosi, Mexico...the rest of the specimen. Displays well. £75 21. FLUORITE (7cm x 5cm x 5cm) Xiang Fang Lin Mine, Chenzhou... China. Group of pale apple green translucent fluorite cubes covered on some faces by scattering of small...CALCITE ON FLUORITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Sichuan, China. Pale grey green hatched cubes of fluorite with at...(5cm x 5cm x 2cm) Minas Miguel Vacas, Alentejano, Portugal. Very dark black-green small libethenite crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | focus on certain species, initially garnet and fluorite, into a broader, more balanced collection of display-quality...(albite) and quartz, 9 cm, Navegadora mine, Penha do Norte, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Joe...January-February, 2009 15 DAVID BRISTOL COLLECTION Fluorite on microcline, 12.5 cm, Yunling area, Zhangzhou...Prefecture, Fujian Province, China. Joe Budd photo. Fluorite, 9 cm, Annabel Lee mine, Hardin County, Illinois...enthusiasm has made being a rnineral collector fun. Fluorite with barite and sphalerite, 34.8 cm, Elmwood mine |  | | Report (issue) | | France Modal analyses of two-mica granitoids from Portugal Modal analyses of two-mica granites northwest...Modal plots of tvro-mica granites from France and Portugal Modal plots of two-mica granites from the western...classification of granitoids. Modal plots, however, do not uniquely define two-mica granites. INTRODUCTION...granites that contain both biotite and muscovite do not. Our approach will be to describe the characteristics...the Bohemian Massif of Czechoslovakia, and in Portugal and Spain, and all the two-mica granites have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from level 2, Panasqueira mines, Beira Baixa, Portugal. Jeff Scovil photo. Carles Curto Mila has been...(above). Dolomite, 5.6 cm wide, from the Azkarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain; mined 2002. Jeff Scovil...in order to earn a living, Figure 12 (above). Fluorite with barite, 4.5 cm high, from La Cabaña, Berbes...from level 2, Panasqueira Mines, Beira Baixa, Portugal; mined ca. 1995. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 15...the more significant ones). Figure 16 (above). Fluorite and quartz, crystal 1.7 cm, from Sant Marçal, |  | | Journal (issue) | | RALS AND GEMS In Great Variety, Collected in Colora do, for Sa le at . 1539 BROADWAY DENVER N o . 245...of independent means thanks to his inheritance, real estate holdings and stock market investrnents, Cahn...11 1c, 400 S.; VM t :r.11t ~ Df:.N:ZR, COLOFU.\DO 0101 ~ J /t:) , August Petro Pohndorf (1866-1939)...WOLFRAMITE & ARSENOPYRITE Minas de Panasquiera, Portugal $ 450.00 3088 Location: Pri ce: CRYSTAL GALLERY... l\IEL & PA.l\1 BERSCH - - - - - - - -- - - - Fluorite on barite, 5.4 cm, from the Okorusu mine, Otjiwarongo |  | | Report (issue) | | === Fluorite, 2.8 cm, from the Vinheiros mine, Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabroda, Vila Real district...district, Norte Region, Portugal. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo. On a “post-Tucson” website update of...comes through with some new and beautiful fluorite from Portugal—not from Panasqueira (although he has that...mine group, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, Norte Region. These seven fluorite specimens are of varying styles...fibers or clay during shipping,” but you could hardly do better than this for natural specimens of the water-soluble |  | | Book | | losing interest in my current hobbies and looking to do something different with my spare time, I enquired...of Chipping Sadbury, calcite from Hampstead Farm Quarry and celestine from Yate Rocks. I also collected...north Devon, including several visits to High Down Quarry for wavellite and variscite, also into East Cornwall...Cornwall and several visits to Merehead Quarry, Somerset. Unfortunately, I did not keep a diary of all...autunite from Merrivale Quarry, Dartmoor and variscite from High Down Quarry, all localities in Devon |  | | Book (volume) | | Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part...calcite, mica, feldspar, asbestos, talc, barite, fluorite, celesrine, gypsum, anhydrite, magnesite, bromine...Yugoslavia; and Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter...Deposits in basement. Deposits in the Lias Baryte Fluorite Copper • Molybdenum Mercury . • Uranium. • Rutile...and silver cevennes Rouergue Auvergne Vosges. Fluorite . Baryte Uranium. • • Molybdenum • • Diatomite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | a mineral collector on the dumps at Strickland Quarry, Portland, Conn., we were determined to try for...for some of the "Museum Specimens" of fluorite crystals like those our fellow collector had brought home...anyway, the vivid picture he painted of the outsize fluorite crystals erased any momentary reluctance to take...John's it is only 10 miles across the peninsula to Portugal Cove, a very picturesque fishing village and the...can't imagine a mineral collector skipping the fluorite, beg your pardon, fluorspar, mines there. There |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gail & Jim Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China...Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz...Record, November–December, 2020 Paul Bordovsky Fluorite with minor albite, 12.2 cm, from the Huanggang...Inner Mongolia, China. Paul Bordovsky photo. Fluorite with barite and sphalerite, 20 cm, from the Elmwood...Scovil photo. Sulfur, 11.1 cm, from the Scofield quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan. Robert Mosley |  | | Report (volume) | | _____________________________________________________ _ Portugal and Spain ___________________________________________...Gorman area, California SOUTH AMERICA 1. Rio Grande do Norte-Para1ba, Brazil 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Northeast...Amapa area, Brazil EUROPE 1. Cornwall, England 2. Portugal and Spain 3. Erzgebirge, German Democratic Re(East...parts changed by addition of tourmaline, topaz, or fluorite. Although only a few disseminated deposits are...customarily associated are magnetite, garnet, pyroxene, fluorite, tourmaline, various sulfide minerals, and, in |  | | Journal (issue) | | later purchased a friend’s collection of English fluorite, calcite and barite for Albert. In 1927, at the...collectors in Sydney) collected zeolites at the Prospect quarry, enriching their own collections while also accumulating...mining crew encountered them, including calcite, fluorite, pyrite and quartz. He began to concentrate his...Shire, Queensland, Australia. Ferberite with fluorite and quartz, 15 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine,... Jeff Scovil photo. Stannite with quartz and fluorite, 10.4 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Yizhang, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite-Bruce and Marcia Friedman collection, page 105;...collection, page 155; Fluorite-Samuel Cooper collection, page 67. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica...many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet across, and...Paso, Texas and set up shop. Tom, however, wanted to do business in bulk wholesale quantities, whereas Ken...stilbite with heulandite, 15 cm, from the Wagholi quarry complex, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Don |  | | Book | | Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland 181 13 63 72 75 16 99...contain minerals and rocks from the famous pegmatite quarry at Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. A further 600...Witherite Celestine Boracite Gypsum Anglesite Apatite, Fluorite Brazilianite Wagnerite Herderite Amethyst Quartz...fossils from the Mid-Eocene oilshales of the Messel quarry, near Darmstadt, including a complete primitive...Wildschapbach; the Wittichen mining area; Artenberg quarry, S_teinach; 38 Museum fur Naturkunde Gerberau |
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