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Epsomite from
Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Epsomite
Formula:MgSO4 · 7H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epsomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:99249
Long-form Identifier:1:3:99249:1
GUID (UUID V4):d6063a34-3e7c-4dbc-9784-3329553b347a
References
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Book
BARTORELLI ::• . . .. MINERALS & PRECIOUS STONES OF BRAZIL Sponsored by: VALE MINISTER.IO DA CULTURA ©...Lavra do Sapo, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais. Collection of Alvaro Lucio. Photograph taken...Brasileira do Livro, SP, Brazil) Cornejo, Carlos .Minerals & precious stones of Brazil. Carlos Cornejo, Andrea...3. Minerals - Brazil 4. Minerals- Classification 5. Mineralogy 6. Mineralogy - Brazil - History 7. Precious...Precious stones - Brazil I. Bartorelli, Andrea. II. Title. 09-10025 Cover photograph: Crystal of brazilianite
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cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * 12.5 x 10 x 10.5 em Page 252: Gypsum rosette...environment. solidified. In some basalts of India and Brazil, these cavities are large enough for a person...before it ABOVE: Imperial topaz, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil ° 3.3 x 2.7 x 1.8 om, 159.10 ct RIGHT: Round...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Journal (issue)
(Australia); Cerintllie (Austrial; Antonio Coe lho Mine, Espirito Santo (Brazi ll; Ontario and Quebec ICanadal;...Crestmore, Riversi de County (Cali fornia); the Empire Mine, Custer County (Idaho); Franklin (New Jerseyl. ...HOttenberg (Austri a); Morro Velho gold mine, Ouro Prato, Minas Gerais (Brazil): Mont Saint-Hila ire,...w z (I) ...J a: w z salts, which come from epsomite (a mineral form of magnesium sulphate), and milk
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Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....deposits occur at the Klondike, Yukon Territory, in Nova Scotia and Ontario. Treatment. Gold is dissolved...mines being in the Madras area; in Brazil, from Diamantina, Minas Gerais; from South Africa in a number of...areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains
dioptase 96, 97 dipyre 114 epistilbite 124 epsomite 60 erubescite 10 erythrite 70, 73 euchroite 70...centuries that other deposits were found in Brazil (Minas Gerais) and South Africa (Transvaal, along the...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...brown opaque octahedrons in clay at Destricella Mine near Raddusa (Enna) in Italy. A brief mention should
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Articles Famous mineral localities: the Taewha mine, K orea...........................................and barbosalite from Lavra do Criminoso, Minas Gerais, Brazil ..........................................COVER: WULFENITE with mimetitefrom the San Francisco mine near Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. The large crystal...Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, California Pala Chief mine, Pala, California...Ledge mine, Washington, California Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito Co., California U.S. Borax mine, Boron
Book (edition)
Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5 mm, Iturnbiara, Brazil, H Rhodocbrosite, polished, 50 mm, Capillitas,... China, H Page 1: MuscO\ite. 45 mm, Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia...Brazilianite, 35 mm, Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald
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BRECATN| GeLa TS! sreiersie cisisiatee s Morro Velho-Raposos Serramder Jacopina, ......)s:s.se...between galena sphalerite, Darwin Lead-Silver-Zinc mine, Inyo County, California, Econ. Geol., v. 66, p..., Bingham 1971, mining U. xiii S. study mine, of the '"'B" limestone Bingham mining The age...Finally, to that fine group of scientists and men, the mine geologists of the Americas, who have taken time...British White, D., 1968, 1961, 6, p. 39-50, 52 mine now in production: (particularly, of the Brenda
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are: the tungsten ores of China; the quartz of Brazil; the diamonds of Africa; the gold of the Transvaal;...natural quartz, most of which is imported from Brazil. Synthetic minerals at times cost more than natural...of giant crystals reported are: 200-ton crystal; Brazil. Crystal 19 feet long and 5 feet in diameter; Black...000; Brazil. BERYI..: SPODUMENE: Crystal over 40 feet long; weight estimated at 90 tons; Etta Mine, Black...14 feet wide; weight approximately 90 tons; Lacy Mine, Ontario, Canada. QUARTZ: Milky white crystal; close
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museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...Twinning in quartz is virtually universal; Dauphine, Brazil and Japan twins are the most common types and twinning...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone...(preferably several people) who really knows the mine. Before venturing into the field serious collectors...really is a matter of life or death when you are in a mine - only a plan will show where water on the floor
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Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
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Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Trimble and Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous...ilmenite crystals as described here for the Dodo mine. In general, ilmenite crystals from the Subpolar
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out of the water first. , .2.t'l UNDERSTAN DING MINE RALS HOVV MINERALS FORM Minerals are the natural...thicker E.g barite, linante. r& iJ NDE RSTA NDING MINE RAL S MI NERAL PROPERTIES: PHYSICAL Every 1nineral... An 875 carat topaz was found in Ouro Preto in Brazil. Often the largest stones, though, contain flaws...found by Thomas Cullinan in 1905 at the Premier Mine, South Africa. Gem colours A vivid colour is also...Atacama, Chile Llallagua, Potosi, Bolivia M inas Gerais, Brazil U SA and Canada Arizona copper mines Bancroft
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more than half an hour just walking through mine after mine, up inclines, past stopes and shafts, around...as you move along. Three cases of superb antique mine lamps highlight the whole presentation. For art...21st annual Munich Show Munich Show Australia Minas Gerais Oct. '84 Oct. '85 July '84 '85 • ADVENTURE...milky quartz. Figure 4. Beryl, variety emerald, Muzo mine, Colombia. The crystal is 1 x 1.5 cm. Troost’s catalog...masses fetch most enormous prices. The Owner of the mine, Demidoff (a millionaire), keeps its value up to
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Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
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In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip of a mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for the...salt), sylvine, carnallite, langbeinite, kainite, epsomite and kieserite. Rarer minerals include bischofite
Book (edition)
smashing of crystals in magnificient pockets by mine foremen; such vandalism is not only stupid,...vein, although it does give a company the right to mine, should not be taken as justification of thoughtless...through the press or as stockholders, to force the mine operators to arrange for specimen preservation in...another. It matters not how the mine companies arrange this. Ideally, the mine could collect and sell specimens...thereby make more profits for the stockholders. If the mine owners consider this too trivial, they can close
Journal (issue)
found an old man named Cleveland, who had a “gold mine " in one of the sand hills, full of “ cat gold "...nothing at Greig. The Port Leyden iron mine was full of water, and the mine débris inaccessible; so we left...so mcphitic it would not make 00d iron ; but the mine yielded the nicest garnets I ever saw. Mr. orden...sample of this, undoubtedly from the outcrop, for the mine was not opened until a dozen or more years after... The specimens obtained were: talc, asbestos, epsomite, stilbite and garnets. The President appointed
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want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip ofa mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for...salt), sylvine, carnallite, langbeinite, kainite, epsomite and kieserite. Rarer minerals include bischofite...metal or commodity markets, so it may be economic to mine a deposit one year but not the next. Abundance and
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interest themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral...to explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...beautiful specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine in Mammoth, Arizona, consisting of small, glassy...Especially 13 FLUORESCENCE noted are the Ruggles mine at Grafton, New Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry
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interest themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral...explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in ...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...beautiful specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine in Mammoth, Arizona, consisting of small, glassy...Especially 13 FLUORESCENCE noted are the Ruggles mine at Grafton, New Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry
Book (edition)
a vein, although it gives a company the right to mine, should not be taken as justification for barbaric...conscience and good will, or as stockholders to encourage mine operators to arrange for specimen preservation in...mining company might arrange this. Ideally, the mine could collect and sell specimens and thereby make...make more profits for the stockholders. If the mine owners consider this too trivial, they can close their...supervision in a profit-sharing agreement when the mine is not working. Surely with goodwill and understanding
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Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially...probably also occurs in that state in the Hechman mine, near Globe, Gila County. Many other occurrences...with atacamite in limestone at the San Augustin mine, Huantajaya, near Iquique, Chile, as an alteration... Sierra County, New Mexico, At the Commonwealth mine, associated with vanadates and calcite. deposits...referred to tocornalite was found in the Proprietary mine. Broken Hill, New South Wales, as a deep yellow
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one species only, or even specimens only from one mine. Whatever limits the collector imposes on himself...specimen 6” by 5”. Front face polished. Minas Gerais, Brazil. mineral! often forms last and therefore...Size of specimen 434” by 214”, Itibiara, Minas Gerais, Brazil. ordinary calcites. volume! Despite grains... MINERALOGY 84 nished by the “‘sand euclases” of Brazil which enclose clay minerals; also by benitoite...of many individual crystals. An iron rose from Brazil is shown in Figure 148 (page 327). Rosette growth
 
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