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Opal from
Bragança, Portugal


Locality type:District
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bragança, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:685311
Long-form Identifier:1:3:685311:2
GUID (UUID V4):687f7f26-ccdf-41df-91c4-f76f1418113f
Localities for Opal in this Region
Morais, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Bragança, Portugal
Mogadouro, Bragança, Portugal
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
48.1km (29.9 miles) Penouta mines, Viana do Bolo, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
78.5km (48.8 miles) Jales Mines (Jales Mining Field), Alfarela de Jales, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Vila Real, Portugal
References
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Clarity Grading . . . “Chocolate Pearls”. . . Leopard Opal . . . Rainbow Andradite from Japan THE QUARTERLY...identifying these products. 236 Leopard Opal: Play-of-Color Opal in Vesicular Basalt from Zimapán, Hidalgo...Myanmar • Moonstone from Madagascar • Phenomenal fire opal • “Sunset” quartz from Brazil • Swedish Blue (slag)...& GEMOLOGY WINTER 2006 235 LEOPARD OPAL: PLAY-OF-COLOR OPAL IN VESICULAR BASALT FROM ZIMAPÁN, HIDALGO...Zenil “Leopard opal” consists of vesicular basalt impregnated with play-of-color opal, and is known only
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in bastnäsite • Flashes and flames in Ethiopian opal • Cat’s eye imitation pen pearls • Negative crystals...island in the Caribbean and called it San Salvador. Portugal and Spain, the global powers of the day, understood...Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, while Portugal gained the eastern side. On his third trip to...instead on the coast of Brazil, which he claimed for Portugal on April 22 of that year. The voyages of Amerigo...effectively divided the South America continent between Portugal and Spain. The Cantino planisphere map, produced
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deposits • Typical localities: Panasqueira in Portugal, Kara-Oba in Kazakhstan, Yaogangxian in China...a distinction was found between various kinds of opal deposits according to their geochemistry. Compared...shown for the first time that the chemistry of an opal influences its physical properties. For example...Brazil were analyzed to understand the conditions of opal genesis and the mobilization of elements during...during the weathering process. The geochemistry of an opal depends mostly on the host rock, although it may
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Republic Sweden from Latin Madagascar Australia Portugal South Africa 81 77 76 69 63 57 42 39 31 28 23...Neiva, 1947a, p.105; Abessédo Mine, Bragança district, Portugal; Tomkeieff p.3) ABSAROKITE. A collective...Tomkeieff. (Marcet Riba, 1925, p.293; Alentejo, Portugal; Tomkeieff p.13) ALEUTITE. A term proposed for... p.646; Navete, Caldas de Monchique, Algarve, Portugal; Tröger 610; Johannsen v.4, p.330; Tomkeieff p...plutonic rock composed of serpentine, magnesite and opal. (Hume et al., 1935, p.26; Baramia Mine, Upper Egypt
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GoldRegent and Diamond oÉ (betaemPrince ofauo Portugal. By John Mawe,Country”, — Não set a dafa da edicão...sítio mais distante, ao sul, próximo do Quartel Bragança, foi escolhido, e colonizado tambem por alemães;...junto com sardinhas européias e peixe enlatado de Portugal, e todas as vendis estão cheias de tais produtos...mesmo a duzentas, jardas em dez anos na baía de Bragança, ou uma milha em vinte anos, como na costa próxima...Mon o de cu de ade estu em od pão,e decnã, ão Opal vras nome OTupi,E mmdodoSaci Jo Àocha capésioE de
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in France, Italy and Peru. BirdLife Partners in Portugal and Spain are looking at how IBAs might be identified...projects recognised in 2010 was SPEA' (BirdLife in Portugal) work for the recovery of Azores Bullfinch (Pyrrhula...their work in identifying marine IBAs in Spain and Portugal. Birds in the European Union: a status assessment(2004)...the conservation of the eight island endemics in Portugal and Spain. Overall, BirdLife found that the situation...to Central Asia, and 37 BirdLife Partners from Portugal to Kazakhstan and Cyprus to Finland participated
 
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