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| Name: | Named for the locality, the Poços de Caldas massif. | ||
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| A Mixture Of: | Baddeleyite, Zircon | ||
Classification of Caldasite | ||||||
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| Health Warning: | sometimes is low radioactive | |||||
| Industrial Uses: | Zirconium ore and source of industrial baddeleyte | |||||
References for Caldasite | ||||||
| Reference List: - + | Derby, in Lee (1919), American Journal of Science: 47: 126. Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged: 610. Franco, R. R. & Loewenstein, W. (1948): Zirconium from the region of Poços de Caldas. Am. Mineral. 33, 142-151. [http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM33/AM33_142.pdf] A.E.P. Brown (1972): PhD Thesis. University of Sao Paulo. [http://www.ipen.br/biblioteca/teses/00317.pdf] http://www.mindat.org/mesg-7-217895.html | |||||
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