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.
References:
- Mining Annual Review (1985): 41.
- Minerals Today (Jan 1990): 30.
- 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, 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.
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