Latitude: 16°42'45"S
Longitude: 41°53'10"W
Mina do Urubu (Mina do Uruba), Monte Belo, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Sudeste, Brasil
A mine in a granite pegmatite.
NOTE: The name Uruba is erroneous.
References
- Cassedanne, J. O. and Cassedane,J. P. (1981): The Urubu pegmatite and vicinity. Mineralogical Record. 12: 73-77.
- Moore, T. (2006): What's New in Minerals. Denver Show 2006. Mineralogical Record. 37: 574-582 [a notice on a find of microlite]
- Daniel Atencio, Reynaldo R. Contreira Fo., Stuart J. Mills, Jose M.V. Coutinho, Sara B. Honorato, Alejandro P. Ayala, Javier Ellena, and Marcelo B. de Andrade (2011) Rankamaite from the Urubu pegmatite, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil: crystal chemistry and Rietveld refinement. Am. Mineral. 96, 1455–1460.
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