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Rebentão mine, Lagares do Estanho mines, Queiriga, Vila Nova de Paiva, Viseu District, Portugal

Mina Rebentão ("Lagares do Estanho")

Pegmatite with wolframite and cassiterite.

Note about this locality name:
This mine is called Rebentao mine in the famous book of Cotelo neiva but among collectors it is largely known as "Lagares do Estanho mines" wich are in fact, two other mines situated closely to this one.

The pegmatite lies for the greater part in granite, but its northern and southern end penetrate into the Paleozoic country rock of the granite.
The middle of the vein is the thickest, up to 12 meter in widht and 1 km in length.The pegmatite was worked over 180 m in underground exploitation.

Recently the entire mine was fenced all around, a building was made and facility access create for visit purpose. I heard about a possible restaurant!

Felmica seems to be the last compagny to work here but not for the cassiterite and tungsten.

Mineral List

Albite
Arsenopyrite
Beraunite
Bertrandite
Beryl
Cacoxenite
Cassiterite
Chalcophyllite
Chalcopyrite
Covellite
Cuprite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Goethite
Gypsum
Hureaulite
Hydrozincite
'Jahnsite'
'K Feldspar'
Metatorbernite
Muscovite
Natrodufrénite
Phenakite
Pseudomalachite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Sceptre Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rockbridgeite
Rutile
Scorodite
Sphalerite
Stannite
Strengite
Topaz
Torbernite
'Tourmaline'
Triplite
Tungstite
Turquoise
Wavellite
'Wolframite'


42 entries listed. 36 valid minerals.

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References

Cotelo Neiva J.M. 1944, Jazigos portugueses de cassiterite e de wolframite, servicos geologicos de Portugal

Schermerhorn L.J.G. 1959, igneous, metamorphic and ore geology of the Castro daire, Sao pedro do sul, Satao region, Amsterdam university

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