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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Siderite4 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Pyrrhotite3 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Pyrrhotite at this locality.
Cubanite2 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Cubanite at this locality.
Baryte1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Ankerite1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Ankerite at this locality.
Ullmannite1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Ullmannite at this locality.
Dolomite1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:783012
Long-form Identifier:1:3:783012:9
GUID (UUID V4):9e628748-07df-439e-966e-3a1d528026df
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
13.8km (8.6 miles) Cuiabá mine, Sabará, Minas Gerais, Brazil
15.6km (9.7 miles) Juca Vieira mine, Caeté, Minas Gerais, Brazil
33.7km (20.9 miles) Córrego do Sitio Au deposit, Santa Bárbara, Minas Gerais, Brazil
35.7km (22.2 miles) São Bento mine, Santa Bárbara, Minas Gerais, Brazil
38.7km (24.1 miles) Pilar mine, Santa Bárbara, Minas Gerais, Brazil
50.3km (31.3 miles) Caieira farm, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
64.9km (40.3 miles) Passagem mine, Passagem de Mariana district, Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil
74.2km (46.1 miles) Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil
86.7km (53.9 miles) São Sebastião deposit, São José da Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil D.S. Vial a,⁎, G.C. Abreu b , G. Schubert a , L...Vale do Rio Doce, BR 381, km 450, Santa Luzia, MG, Brazil Instituto de Geociências da Universidade de São...São Paulo, Rua Major Solbiat, 226, Torrinha, SP, Brazil Fundação Educacional de Caratinga, Fazenda Experimental...BR-116, Km 526, Bairro das Graças, Caratinga, MG, Brazil b c Received 26 June 2003; accepted 2 January...Pari, as well as the world-class deposits of Morro Velho and Cuiabá. All these deposits, whether large
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elsevier.com/locate/oregeorev The geology of the Morro Velho gold deposit in the Archean Rio das Velhas greenstone...greenstone belt, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil Diogenes Scipioni Vial a,⁎, Ed DeWitt b , Lydia Maria...Doce-CVRD, BR 381, Km 459, Santa Luzia, MG, 33010-970, Brazil United States Geological Survey, Box 25046, Denver...Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil d CTGS...Abstract The Morro Velho gold deposit, Quadrilátero Ferrífero region, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is hosted by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the QuadrilaÂtero FerrõÂ fero region, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, one of the major gold provinces in the...intensely carbonatized rock (e.g., the giant Morro Velho mine with >450 t of contained gold). Metabasalts...Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. AntoÃnio Carlos 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 31270-901...31270-901, Brazil E-mail: lobato@igc.ufmg.br Fax: +55-31-4995410 L.C. Ribeiro-Rodrigues FAPEMIG Bursary Recipient...Escola de Minas, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, 35400-000
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 775-798 GEOLOGY OF THE RAPOSOS GOLD MINE, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZ[I. GENE E. TOLBERT CONTENTS PAGE ............................................. Morro Velho zone ................................................................................... Chalcopyrite ..............................................sequence,which trends approximately east-west in the mine area, is intruded by diabase dikes that strike northeast... which is widely distributed in the Raposos-Morro Velho region and contains 0.31 percent Cr20 a. Arsenopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract Brazil has been a major but intermittent producer of gold since its discovery in 1500. Brazil led...hosted in Archean rocks produced 66% of the gold in Brazil, whereas deposits in Paleoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic...MinisteÂrio de Minas e Energia, Secretaria de Minas e Metalurgia, BrasõÂ lia, Brazil E.A. Ladeira Rua...Muzambino 355/404, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 30310-280, Brazil Deposits in metamorphosed sedimentary...importance. The Archean and Paleoproterozoic terranes of Brazil largely lack base-metal-rich volcanogenic massive
Report (volume)
workshop held December 1-10,1986, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was hosted by the Institute Brasileiro de Mineragao...photograph at Quintas, Mineragao Morro Velho Club, Nova Lima, Brazil December 4,1986 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ...Kerswill 19. 20. 21. 22. Fernando L. Repetto Rafael Lima de Oliveira Eduardo Ladeira Diogenes Scipioni Vial...Sergio Maurus Ribas Paulo Roberto Amorim dos Santos Lima Marcel Fonseca 36. Vitor Hugo Silveira de Castro...Quadrilatero Ferrffero, Minas Gerais, Brazil Workshop: Belo Horizonte, Brazil, December 1-10,1986 Sponsors:
Report (issue)
and Ore Deposits of the Nova Lima and Rio Acima Quadrangles Minas Gerais, Brazil GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...the Departamento N acional da Producao Mineral of Brazil under the auspices of the International Cooperation...and Ore Deposits of the Nova Lima and Rio Acima Quadrangles Minas Gerais, Brazil By JACOB E. GAIR GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF PARTS OF MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 341-A...the Departamento Nacional da Producao Mineral of Brazil under the auspices of the International Cooperation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e r a l i z a t i o n in Central E a s t e r n Brazil: a review A. Bernasconi Terraconsult AG, Steinwiesstrasse24...the major Archaean terranes of central eastern Brazil is given in the first section of this paper. Integration...Jequie and Goias mobile belts of central eastern Brazil. This mineralization associated with greenstone...important Archaean gold districts of Brazil, the Iron Quadrangle of Minas Gerais (Fig. 1), was discovered. Recently...the Archaean gold metallogeny of central eastern Brazil based on the presently known major raineralized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cuiabá Gold deposit, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, Brazil Luiz Cláudio Ribeiro-Rodrigues a,⁎, Claudinei...Caratinga, BR-116, km 526, Caratinga-MG, 35 300-970, Brazil b Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de Brasília...Brasília, Campus Asa Norte, Brasília-DF, 31270-901, Brazil c Institute of Mineralogy and Economic Geology...northern part of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The region constitutes an Archean granite–greenstone...by the Proterozoic supracrustal sequences of the Minas (<2.6–2.1 Ga) and Espinhaço (1.7 Ga) supergroups
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and sediment geochemistry of the iron quadrangle, Brazil: The case of Arsenic Article in Journal of Soils...Ciminelli Universidade FUMEC Federal University of Minas Gerais 20 PUBLICATIONS 519 CITATIONS 129 PUBLICATIONS...Quadrangle, Brazil Research Articles Soil and Sediment Geochemistry of the Iron Quadrangle, Brazil The Case...Federal de Minas Gerais, Rua Espírito Santo 35/217, 30160-030 Belo Horizonte, M.G., Brazil Technologiezentrum...worldwide. Its wealth has shaped the modern state of Brazil and still provides a major part of the national
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos, n.° 6627, Bairro Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, CEP...CEP 31270-901, Brazil School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35, Stirling...Sítio Mineração S/A, Mina do Lamego, Sabará, Minas Gerais, Brazil a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...Cuiabá–Lamego trend, Quadrilátero Ferrífero region, Brazil. Both Archean orogenic gold deposits are situated...to be pre-peak (Archean) metamorphism. Nowadays, Brazil is classified as the 12th largest gold producer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Moeda Formation within the GandarelaSyncline,Minas Gerais,Brazil W. E. L. MINTER, Departmentof Geology,Universityof...F. E. RENGER, AND A. SIEGERS Minas Novas Ltda., Belo Horizonte, Brazil Abstract Gold-bearingplacerconglomerates...progressivelymore of the hitherto unofficiallyproMinas Gerais,Brazil (Fig. 1). This area, extending ducedgoldwasbought...re stillbeingminedat Morro vorableby the localminers,whoseexperienceshows Velho,Raposos, Cuiab/•,andS5oBento(Fig...1969) containstwo groups(Table 1). The oldest,the Nova Lima Group, 0 500Kin is a greenstonebelt composedofmaficandultramafic
Journal (issue)
50 to $ 1,000.00 HYDROBORACITE from the Thompson mine, Death Valley, Calif. Some spec­ imens w ith colemanite...Newman Minerals From the Lavra da llha Pegmatite, Brazil.................... 207 Jacques P. & Jeannine O...Richard S. Mitchell The Minerals of the Morro Velho Gold Mine, Brazil.......................................Good thumbnail of the simple SILVER. Glenn Lake Mine. San Diego Co., Calif. A group of octrahedron xl...doubly terminated xls with good RENARDITE. Ruggles Mine, Massive. Rare. 2 x 4cm $14.00 pink color. Slightly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
such minerals as chalcopyrite and pentlandite. Pseudomorphs of marcasite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, arsenopyrite...pyrrhotite crystal on quartz attributed to the Potosi mine, Santo Domingo, Santa Eulalia (now known as Aquiies...pyrrhotite crystal from the Morro Velho gold mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The 10.1-cm specimen is...ore include the old bismuth mine at Monroe and the historic nickel mine at Litchfield, Connecticut; the...mines, Chester County, the Gap mine, Lancaster County, and the Ecton mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
examined sulfide-rich specimens dominated by chalcopyrite, a mineral that it closely resembles and with...developed cubanite crystals from the Henderson No. 2 mine in the Chibougamau mining district, Quebec, Canada...grains, granular masses, or thin lamellae in chalcopyrite. Cubanite is copper-iron sulfide, having the...commonly occurs as oriented intergrowths in chalcopyrite. It has been observed as an uncommon accessory...Swift mines, Padding County, and the Villa Rica mine, Douglas County, Georgia. It has been reported as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold Deposit, Pitangui Greenstone Belt, Minas Gerais, Brazil Mariana Brando Soares, Atlas Vasconcelos...Gold Deposit, Pitangui Greenstone Belt, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Ore Geology Reviews (2018), doi: https://doi...Gold Deposit, Pitangui Greenstone Belt, Minas Gerais, Brazil Mariana Brando Soares1, Atlas Vasconcelos...Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2 – Departamento de Geologia, Instituto de Geociências...Janeiro, Brazil. 3- Centro de Tecnologia Mineral (CETEM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4 – IAMGOLD, Brazil 5- Centro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in quartz veins, Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, Brazil Milton J. Morales a,⁎, Rosaline C. Figueiredo e...David A. Banks c a b c Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CPMTC-Instituto de Geociências, Av. Presidente...Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração S/A, Lamego Mine, Rua Mestre Caetano...Caetano, Sabará, MG, Brazil School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds...Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil. Mineralization is associated mainly with metachert–banded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Turmalina deposit, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil: structural evolution and the two stages of mineralization...identified: pyrrhotite-arsenopyrite ± löllingite ± chalcopyrite ± gold stage I precipitated below a metamorphic...foliation (D1), and pyrrhotite-pyrite-arsenopyrite ± chalcopyrite ± gold stage II is located commonly along V3...Ferrífero (translated as BIron Quadrangle^), Minas Gerais, Brazil (Fig. 1a). The Quadrilátero Ferrífero (QF)...Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 31270-901, Brazil 2 Universidade de
Report (issue)
oriented intergrowths with chalcopyrite. Cubanite may exsolve from chalcopyrite below about 200 ◦ C–210...carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Association: Chalcopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, pentlandite, sphalerite...Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona; from Prince William Sound, Alaska. In the Strathcona mine, Sudbury...Piedmont, Italy. In Brazil, in the Morro Velho gold mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais. At Broken Hill, New
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mariana gold deposit, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, Brazil D.S. Vial a,⁎, B.P. Duarte b , K. Fuzikawa...Vale do Rio Doce, BR381, Km 459, Santa Luzia, MG, Brazil Faculdade de Geologia da Universidade do Estado...Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil c CDTN-Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia...Horizonte, MG, Brazil d Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, BR262, Km 296, Santa Luzia, MG, Brazil b Received...from the end of the 17th Century until 1954. The mine has not operated since 1985. Orebodies are veins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold lineament, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, Brazil Yuri Ribeiro a, Rosaline C. Figueiredo e...e Silva a, Lydia M. Lobato a, Luiz Claudio Lima b, Francisco J. Rios c, Steffen G. Hagemann d, John Cliff...Cliff d a Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CPMTC-Instituto de Geociências, Av. Presidente Antônio...– MG, Brazil Aurizona Mineração: Avenida dos Holandeses, Ponta do Farol, São Luís – MA, Brazil c Centro...banded-iron-formation-hosted (BIF) gold producer São Bento mine (Pereira et al., 2007; Fig. 1), the region near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil: vein classification and struc‐ tural control André...Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil: vein classification and structural control, Ore...Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilátero 3 Ferrífero, Brazil: vein classification and structural control 4...Geociências, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 8 Abstract 9 The Cuiabá deposit...southeastern part of the 10 Minas Gerais state, is the largest underground mine in Brazil (5.78 Moz resources
Report (issue)
57 38.53 Total 100.00 99.93 100.10 (1) Homestake mine, Lead, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA; corresponds...meteorites. Association: Pyrite, marcasite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite, many other sulfides, magnetite...(Nagybánya) district, Romania. From the Stari Trg mine, Trepča, Serbia. In Val Passiria, Trentino-Alto...Large crystals from the Morro Velho gold mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil. At the Potosı́ and San...Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. From the Bluebell mine, Riondel, British Columbia, Canada. Name: From
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ouro Preto Gold Mines, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil A. CHAUVET,† Institut des Sciences de la Terre...The gold deposits of the Ouro Preto area (Minas Gerais, Brazil) occur along the main tectonic contact responsible...for the thrusting of the Paleoproterozoic units (Minas Supergroup) onto the gneissic and metasedimentary...The gold deposits of the Ouro Preto area (Minas Gerais, Brazil) are currently interpreted as mesothermal...west-northwest–verging thrust event that carried the Minas Supergroup over the Archean rocks (e.g., Marshak
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ion at the Cau Iron Mine, Itabira District, Southern SaoFrancisco Craton,Brazil: GeologicandStructuralControls...Rio Dote, Itabira, MinasGerais,Brazil 35900-900 Abstract The Cau• iron mine is located in the Itabira district...known as a major producerof iron ore (Doff, Mariana mine), and Lake Superior-typeiron-formations Introduction...whichgoldandpalladiumoccurtogetherin a Proterozoie The Morro Velho mine alone hasproducedabout 500 t Lake Superio...Bento mines)and mylonitized volcano-sedimentary Soeo mine and 5 tons from 1865 to 1896 from the Marocks(e
 
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