Lisete Alves' Photo Gallery
Landscape at Gestoso
Upper dumps, Alto das Quelhas do Gestoso Mine, Gestoso, Manhouce, São Pedro do Sul, Viseu, Portugal29 Aug 2004
X8Q-1MVBiotite K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Freita Mountain, Arouca, Aveiro, PortugalBiotite Nodule in granite ( Specimen collected at what is known as "Pedra Parideira", or Birthing stone. The local people give this name because the mother-rock (granite) seems to "give birth" expelling smaller rocks (the biotite nodules)