São José da Safira, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Safira pegmatite district, Eastern Brazilian pegmatite province.
Pegmatites in this area produce excellent gem-quality green tourmaline.

The Sao Jose do Safira mine also produces quartz crystals that are somewhat distinctive and when properly irradiated produce what in the gem industry as green gold and lemon gold quartz. The Brazilian company EMBRESA (Empresa Brasileira de Radiacao in Sao Paulo does most of the irradiation.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Albite var: Andesine var: Cleavelandite var: Oligoclase 'Amblygonite-Montebrasite Series' Amphibole Supergroup Anglesite Ankerite Autunite Bertrandite Beryl var: Morganite 'Biotite' Calcite

Cassiterite 'Chlorite Group' 'Columbite-Tantalite' Cookeite Dolomite Elbaite Fluorapatite Fluor-elbaite (TL) Foitite 'Garnet' 'Hornblende' 'K Feldspar' Kyanite Lepidolite

Marcasite Microcline Montmorillonite Muscovite 'Olivine' Petalite Phosphuranylite 'Planerite-Turquoise Series' Pollucite Pyrope 'Pyroxene Group' Quartz var: Smoky Quartz Rhodochrosite

Schorl 'Serpentine Group' Sillimanite Spessartine Spodumene Torbernite 'Tourmaline' 'var: Indicolite' 'var: Rubellite' 'var: Verdelite' 'Zinnwaldite'

54 entries listed. 32 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

Localities in this Region

Brazil Minas Gerais Doce valley São José da Safira Aricanga mine Chiar mine Cruzeiro mine Cruzeiro No. 1 pegmatite Cruzeiro No. 2 pegmatite Pederneira claim

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