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Morro da Mina Mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete (old Queluz de Minas), Minas Gerais, Brazil

Rhodonite
Morro da Mina Mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Photo: Rob Lavinsky
Gondites and Queluzites, the metamorphosed manganese protores, are regularly distributed in the Greenstone Belt, occupying narrow and elongated zones in the metabasaltic and metaultrabasic parts. These protores were cut by granodioritic bodies, pegmatitic and aplitic veins and faults.

Ref.:

http://acd.ufrj.br/geologia/posgrad/area1d.htm [Link dead. Sep 2011]

Mineral List

Actinolite
Alabandite
Bementite
Beryl
Biotite
Bornite
Cassiterite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Columbite
Covellite
Cryptomelane
Cummingtonite
Fluorapatite
var: Mn-bearing Fluorapatite

'Garnet'
Graphite
'Hornblende'
Lithiophorite
Manganosite
Neotocite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Pyroxmangite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
Rhodochrosite
Rhodonite
Riebeckite
Siegenite
Spessartine
Talc
Tephroite
Todorokite
'Tourmaline'


35 entries listed. 27 valid minerals.

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