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Sericite from
Salobo Mine, Marabá, Pará, Brazil


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Salobo Mine, Marabá, Pará, Brazil
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:643755
Long-form Identifier:1:3:643755:8
GUID (UUID V4):8c12d724-8908-4eb0-88b7-ea75af4e3410
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
26.9km (16.7 miles) Alemão Cu mine, Alemão Cu deposit, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil
27.4km (17.0 miles) Igarapé Bahia mine, Alemão Cu deposit, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil
45.3km (28.1 miles) Águas Claras Mine, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil
79.6km (49.5 miles) Furnas Southeast deposit, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil
88.5km (55.0 miles) Curral orebody, Sossego Mine, Canaã dos Carajás, Pará, Brazil
97.3km (60.5 miles) Serra Pelada claims, Curionópolis, Pará, Brazil
References
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Carajás Mineral Province, Southern Amazon Craton, Brazil: Varying styles of Archean through Paleoproterozoic...124, Bairro Beira Rio, Parauapebas, PA 68515-000, Brazil Centre for Global Metallogeny and Centre for Exploration...Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil Received 31 January 2006; accepted 8 October 2006...are classic Fe-oxide Cu–Au deposits that include Salobo, Igarapé Bahia–Alemão, Cristalino and Sossego....invariably present. Rhenium–Os dating of molybdenite at Salobo and SHRIMP Pb–Pb dating of hydrothermal monazite
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integrated model for the Neoarchean Carajás IOCG System, Brazil Maria Emilia Schutesky, Claudinei Gouveia de Oliveira...integrated model for the Neoarchean Carajás IOCG System, Brazil, Ore Geology Reviews (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10...integrated model for the Neoarchean Carajás IOCG System, Brazil Maria Emilia Schutesky & Claudinei Gouveia de Oliveira...Universidade de Brasília, Brazil The Carajás Mineral Province, located in northern Brazil, comprises the oldest...orthopyroxene(-marialite) in the Ni-rich GT-34 and Salobo deposits extend further the P-T boundaries to temperatures
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oxide–copper–gold deposit, Carajás Mineral Province (Brazil): Implications for ore genesis Ignacio Torresi...vein stockworks; and (4) local post-ore quartz–sericite alteration. The ore assemblage is dominated by...UNICAMP, P.O. Box 6152, 13083–970 Campinas, SP, Brazil e-mail: xavier@ige.unicamp.br salinity (<15 wt...oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) deposits, mainly represented by the Salobo (789 Mt at 0.96 wt.% Cu, 0.52 g/t Au, 55 g/t Ag;...Serra Leste, Serra Sul) and IOCG deposits (e.g., Salobo and Igarapé Bahia) of the CMP. According to Olszewski
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oxide–copper–gold deposit, Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: paragenesis and stable isotope constraints Lena...0.28 g/t Au) in the Carajás Mineral Province of Brazil consists of two major groups of orebodies (Pis...Calógeras, 51, CEP 13083–970 Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil e-mail: lena@ige.unicamp.br M. W. Hitzman Department...Mineral Province . Brazil Introduction The Sossego iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) mine, operated by the...(CVRD) in the Carajás Mineral Province (CMP), Pará state, Brazil, was placed into production in 2004. The
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Igarapé Bahia Cu-Au deposit, Carajás Province (Brazil): early syngenetic chalcopyrite overprinted by...Igarapé Bahia Cu-Au deposit, Carajás Province (Brazil): early syngenetic chalcopyrite overprinted by...Igarapé Bahia Cu-Au deposit, Carajás Province (Brazil): early syngenetic chalcopyrite overprinted by...Pandiá Calógeras, 51, 13083-870 Campinas (SP), Brazil 2 Institute of Geosciences, University of São...(USP), Rua do Lago, 562, 05508-080 São Paulo (SP), Brazil *corresponding author Abstract The Igarapé Bahia
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Events at the Sossego Deposit, Carajás Province, Brazil: Re-Os and U-Pb Geochronological Evidence* C. P...University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-870, Brazil 2 Institute 3 Department of Geosciences, University...University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-080, Brazil of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta...in the southern Copper belt, Carajás province, Brazil. The Sossego deposit consists of two major groups...eastern part of the Amazon craton, northwestern Brazil, corresponds to a Mesoarchean crustal nucleus stabilized
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Deposit, Cinzento Shear Zone, Carajás Province, Brazil Poliana Iara de Freitas Toledo,¹,† Carolina Penteado...University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-855, Brazil ²State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry...Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, 35400-000, Brazil Abstract The Igarapé Cinzento (GT-46) iron oxide...of the Cinzento shear zone in Carajás province, Brazil. Copper mineralization in the deposit is hosted...southeastern portion of the Amazon craton (northwest Brazil, Fig. 1A) hosts a diverse range of mineral deposits
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38500-000, Brazil 2 Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo), SP 05508-080, Brazil Abstract...deposit, located at 3 km north of the Sossego IOCG Mine (355 Mt @ 1.5 % Cu and 0.28 g/t Au; Lancaster et...copper–(nickel) enrichment. It is close to the Sossego Mine, which records multiple hydrothermal events responsible..., 2015a), a host to the IOCG ore at the Sossego Mine, is interpreted as a part of this Mesoarchean greenstone...Huhn et al., 1999; Moreto et al., 2015b). The Old Salobo and Itaciaúnas granites (ca. 2.57 Ga; Machado et
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Temporal evolution of the giant Salobo IOCG deposit, Carajás Province (Brazil): constraints from paragenesis...Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 Abstract The giant Salobo copper-gold deposit is located in the Carajás Province...which are crosscut by the Old Salobo granite. Remnants of the Igarapé Salobo metavolcanic-sedimentary sequence...alteration, which is also recognized in the Old Salobo granite. In the central zone of the deposit the...5.3 and 2535 ± 8.4 Ma were obtained for the Old Salobo granite and for the high-grade copper ore, respectively
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Cu-Au deposits in the Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: implications for genetic models Peter J. Pollard...Industrial Simão da Cunha, Santa Luzia, MG 33.040-900, Brazil Miner Deposita Introduction Bi) deposits, including...Sequeirinho, Moreto et al. 2015a), 2.57 Ga (e.g., Salobo, Requia et al. 2003 and Igarapé Bahia, Tallarico...at the southeastern margin of the Amazon Craton, Brazil. Since discovery of the Carajás iron deposits in...in 1967 (Tolbert et al. 1971) and the Salobo copper-gold deposit in 1977 (Lindenmayer and Teixeira 1999)
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Calógeras, 51, CEP 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil e-mail: carolina.moreto@ige.unicamp.br C. Juliani...Lago, 562, CEP 05508-080 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil W. S. Amaral Geology Department, Federal University...of Ceará, UFC, CEP 60455-760 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Introduction The Carajás Mineral Province (CMP)...located in the southern part of the Amazonian Craton (Brazil), represents one of the most well-endowed mineral...deposit. The main IOCG deposits of the CMP include Salobo (789 Mt @ 0.96% Cu, 0.52 g/t Au, 55 g/t Ag; Souza
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(IOCG) Mineralization, Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil Marcelo Leão-Santos 1,2, * , Roberto Moraes 2,†...(IOCG) Mineralization, Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil. Minerals 2022, 12, 1581. https://doi.org/10.3390/...73345-010, DF, Brazil Institute of Geosciences, University of Brasília, Brasília 70910-900, DF, Brazil Center...University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-080, SP, Brazil School of Computer Sciences, China University of...deposit, located in the Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil. This deposit has disseminated chalcopyrite, bornite
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Igarapé Bahia Deposit, Carajás Copper-Gold Belt, Brazil: An Archean (2.57 Ga) Example of Iron-Oxide Cu-Au-(U-REE)...Campinas, Caixa Postal 6152, 13.083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil, and Centre for Global Metallogeny, School of Earth...Campinas, Caixa Postal 6152, 13.083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil DAVID I. GROVES,† NATALIE KOSITCIN, NEAL J. MCNAUGHTON...Parauapebas, PA, Brazil Abstract A striking feature of the Carajás region, Brazil, is the clustering...Bahia volcano-sedimentary sequence and the Grão Pará volcanic rocks, which have published ages of ca
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oxide–copper–gold deposit, Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil Lena Virgínia Soares Monteiro a,⁎, Roberto Perez...Pandiá Calógeras, 51, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil Department of Geology and Geological Engineering...Rua do Lago, 562, CEP 05508-080, São Paulo, SP, Brazil A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...oxide–copper–gold deposit Carajás Mineral Province Brazil Mineral chemistry Geothermobarometry A B S T R...the southeast part of the Amazon Craton in Pará State, Brazil, contains the world's largest known concentration
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Igarapé Bahia Cu–Au deposit, Carajás Province, Brazil Ana M. Dreher & Roberto P. Xavier & Bruce E. Taylor...Igarapé Bahia Cu–Au deposit in the Carajás Province, Brazil, is hosted by steeply dipping metavolcanosedimentary...Geological Survey of Brazil, Av. Pasteur 404, 22290-240 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil e-mail: amdreher@rj...UNICAMP, Caixa Postal 6152, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil e-mail: xavier@ige.unicmap.br B. E. Taylor Geological...de Almeida 15/201, 22291-000 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil e-mail: martini.s@uol.com.br Mineralization is
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Cu–Au Visconde deposit, Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: implications for fluid source generation Antonia...in the Carajás Mineral Province (CMP), northern Brazil, near the contact between the ca. 2.76 Ga metavolcano-sedimentary...Geological Survey of Brazil, Av. André Araújo, 2160, 69060-000 Manaus, AM, Brazil e-mail: railinegeo@gmail...University of Pará-UFPA, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, Guamá, P.O. Box 1611, 66075-110 Belém, PA, Brazil R. N. N...Geology (PARÁ-ISO), Geosciences Institute, Federal University of Pará-UFPA, Belém, PA, Brazil V. P. Ferreira
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1883–1899 The Serra Pelada Au-Pd-Pt Deposit, Carajás, Brazil: Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Zoning of Hydrothermal...Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 4 Colossus Minerals Inc., The Exchange Tower,...oxide-hosted copper-gold deposits of the Amazon craton in Brazil. The unusual low-temperature hydrothermal mineralization...mineral paragenesis comprises kaolinite, quartz, sericite, amesite (Mg-rich Al-silicate), amorphous carbon...and near the eastern edge of the Amazon craton in Brazil. The Itacaiúnas belt comprises an Archean granitegneiss
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold–platinum-group element deposits: examples from Brazil and Australia A. K. Sener, C. J. Grainger and D...gold–platinum-group element (PGE) occurrences (± uranium) in Brazil and Australia has identified an unusual class of...metasomatic alteration haloes rich in hematite and sericite. Few, if any, sulphides (pyrite ± chalcopyrite)...Waterberg Pt–Pd23,24 deposits, have been described from Brazil and South Africa, respectively. Other styles are...here in a comparison of the Serra Pelada deposit, Brazil, and the Gold Ridge prospect, Northern Territory
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pyrrhotite. Some deposits of the second type (Igarape Salobo and Igarape Bahia) are also syngenetic, but their...portion of the Amazon craton, known as the Central Brazil shield (Figs. 1 and 2). To the east, the province...CarajaÂs region being a subprovince of the Central Brazil shield. The other hypothesis holds that the post-Archean...implies a complex collisional history of northern Brazil prior to 1.8 Ga. According to this model, the...Igarape Bahia, GraÄo ParaÂ, Igarape Pojuca, Igarape Salobo Groups Rio Novo Group(?) Intrusive rocks Anorogenic
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hydrothermally altered to form potassic, epidote, and sericite–chlorite alteration zones, and calcite and quartz...formed at an intermediate depth with potassic and sericite–chlorite alteration zones under the oxidized conditions...Schistose diorite Ore zone Fig.4 Alteration type Sericite Sericite-chlorite Epidote K K K K K K Potassic K...from the surface to the deeper levels as sericite, sericite–chlorite, epidote, and potassic alteration...position is shown in Figure 3. Schistose diorite with sericite alteration has a greenish-gray appearance with
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of the Breves Cu-Au-(W-Bi-Sn) deposit, Carajás, Brazil Received: 24 January 2002 / Accepted: 27 July 2003...Breves deposit in the Carajás CopperGold Belt, Brazil, a member of the Cu-Au-(W-Bi-Sn) group of deposits...Campinas, Cx. Postal 6152, 13.083-970 Campinas, Brazil E-mail: fernando.tallarico@norfalco.com.br F. H...Carajás, Cx. Postal 51, 68.516-000 Parauapebas, Brazil for two phases, and a combined age of 1,879±6...million tonnes) Fe-oxide Cu-Au-(U-REE) deposits (e.g. Salobo, Igarapé Bahia, Cristalino and Sossego), whose
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mineralization and occur proximal to ore bodies, whereas sericite, carbonate, and argillic alteration zones are...residual silica, clays, and goethite. 4.2.2. Sericite alteration Sericitization is typically mapped...in the central parts of the deposit (Fig. 4e). Sericite alteration occurred in andesite, trachy-andesite...alkali feldspar phenocrysts. Locally, intense sericite alteration caused pervasive replacement of precursor...anhedral to subhedral fine-grained aggregates of sericite, quartz, calcite, and hematite (Fig. 6a, b). The
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mineral system akin similar deposits in Australia and Brazil. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1....commenced the exploitation of the oxidized ore, but the mine closed in 1978 due to increased fuel and decreased...approximately 45 kg gold were produced from old mine tailings at 3.08 g/t gold (Strickland and Martyn... 1 and 2; Kolb et al., 2008). They are quartz–sericite schists and biotite–garnet–quartz schists, where...copper–gold mineralization of the Guelb Moghrein mine is hosted in shear zones transecting the meta-iron
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label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Moreto, André Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco Antônio...Tunnels Au-Ag-Zn-Pb deposit, Montana, United States (mine now exhausted). 1971: Recognized control of ore...high sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Chile (mine now exhausted). 1971: First formal recognition...which led to discovery of Perkoa Zn-Pb-Ag deposit (mine under construction). 1990: Recommendation of Cerro
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Alemao, Sossego, Alvo 118, and Salobo from the Carajas district in Brazil, Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry...of hematite, chlorite, K-feldspar, white mica (sericite), carbonates, and quartz. All the samples were...deposit was transformed to hematite. h Ore from the Salobo deposit (F159) composed of magnetite, biotite,...chlorite and late hydrolytic lowtemperature K–Fe (sericite–hematite–quartz) alteration crosscut by calcite...(low-temperature Ca-Mg); and (4) local post-ore quartz–sericite alteration (Torresi et al. 2012; Xavier et al
 
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