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Serra Pelada Au-(Pd-Pt) deposit (Serra Leste), Curionópolis, Carajás mineral province, Pará, Brazil

Gold
Serra Pelada Au- deposit, Curionópolis, Carajás mineral province, Pará, Brazil

Photo: Rob Lavinsky
Sediment-hosted gold-(palladium-platinum) deposit. The deposit was intermittently mined from several open pits (including the Serra Pelada, Banana and Marlon mines) since 1980. It produced 35.3 metric tons of gold between 1980 and 1985.

Mineral List

Actinolite
Albite
'Allanite'
'Apatite'
Arsenopyrite
Atheneite
'Biotite'
Bornite
Calcite
var: Ferroan Calcite
Carrollite
Chalcopyrite
Clinochlore
 Covellite
Diaspore
Diopside
Dolomite
Epidote
Galena
Goethite
Gold
var: Palladian Gold
Hematite
Isoferroplatinum
Isomertieite
Kaolinite
 'Limonite'
Magnetite
'Manganese Oxides'
Millerite
Molybdenite
'Monazite'
Muscovite
var: Sericite
Palladium
Palladseite
Pentlandite
Potarite
Pyrite
 Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rutile
Siderite
Siegenite
Spessartine
Sudovikovite
Talc
Thorite
Titanite
'Tourmaline'
Xenotime-(Y)


51 entries listed. 41 valid minerals.

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References

Mining Annual Review (1985): 41.

Villas, R.N., and Dias Santos, M. (2001): Gold deposits of the Carajás mineral province: deposit types and metallogenesis. Mineralium Deposita 36, 300-331. DOI 10.1007/s001260100178

Cabral AR, Lehmann B, Kwitko R, Cravo Costa CH (2002): The Serra Pelada Au-Pd-Pt deposit, Carajás mineral province, northern Brazil: reconnaissance mineralogy and chemistry of very high grade palladian gold mineralization. Economic Geology 97, 1127-1138.

Cabral, A.R., Lehmann, B., Kwitko-Ribeiro, R., and Cravo Costa, C.H. (2002) Palladium and platinum minerals from the Serra Pelada Au-Pd-Pt deposit, Carajás mineral province, northern Brazil. Canadian Mineralogist 40, 1451-1463.

Grainger, C.J., Groves, D.I., Tallarico, F.H.B., and Fletcher, I.R. (2008): Metallogenesis of the Carajás Mineral Province, Southern Amazon Craton, Brazil: Varying styles of Archean through Paleoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic base- and precious-metal mineralisation. Ore Geology Reviews 33, 451-489.

Minerals Today (Jan 1990): 30.

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