Boa Vista pegmatite, Conselheiro Pena, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Famous secondary phosphate locality. Aimorés pegmatite district, Eastern Brazilian pegmatite province.

Note: Located within Conselheiro Pena county, not Galiléia county, as erroneously indicated on many labels (Luiz Menezes information, see: http://www.mindat.org/mesg-11-183004.html)

Note: There are at least 5 localities in Brazil which contain the name "Boa Vista": one is a pegmatite in Goias, one is a placer deposit in Espirito Santo, and one is a diamond placer in Minas Gerais and two are pegmatites in Minas Gerais. For example, the famous Euclase locality is: Boa Vista Euclase pegmatite, Boa Vista, Rodrigo Silva, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil

Mineral List

Albite var: Cleavelandite Alluaudite 'Amblygonite-Montebrasite Series' 'Apatite' Arrojadite-(KFe) Arsenopyrite Bermanite Beryllonite Bismuth Bornite Cacoxenite Chalcopyrite Childrenite Claudetite 'Columbite' Covellite

Cubanite Cyrilovite Ferberite Fluorapatite Galena Goethite Graftonite Heterosite Hureaulite var: Bastinite Hydroxylherderite Illite Kaolinite Laueite Legrandite Leucophosphite Löllingite

Ludlamite Messelite Microcline Montmorillonite Muscovite Natrojarosite Phosphoferrite Phosphosiderite Phosphuranylite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Robertsite Rockbridgeite Roscherite Saléeite Sarcopside

Siderite Sphalerite Strengite Sulphur Tavorite Tennantite Triphylite Uraninite Variscite var: Ferrian Variscite Vivianite 'Whiteite' Witherite Wolfeite 'Wolframite'

66 entries listed. 57 valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.