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Serra Pelada Mine, Curionópolis, Carajás mineral province, Pará, North Region, Brazil

Au-Pd-Pt deposit.

A gold property started 1980, closed 1985, and restarted September, 1989. Produced 35.3 metric tons of Au (1980-1985).


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





Mineral List:
  • 'Apatite'
  • Atheneite
  • Biotite
  • Bornite
  • Calcite
    var: Ferroan Calcite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Clinochlore
  • Dolomite
  • Goethite
  • Gold
       var: Palladian Gold
  • Hematite
  • Isomertieite
  • Kaolinite
  • Limonite
  • Magnetite
  • 'Manganese Oxides'
  • 'Monazite'
  • Muscovite
  • Palladium
  • Palladseite
  • Pyrrhotite
  • Quartz
  • 'Sericite'
  • Siderite
  • Sudovikovite


    26 entries listed. 18 valid minerals.

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