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Pyrite from
Sapo Mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzⓘ1 photo of Pyrite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Fluorapatiteⓘ1 photo of Pyrite associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Albiteⓘ1 photo of Pyrite associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sapo Mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:632392
Long-form Identifier:1:3:632392:9
GUID (UUID V4):f635a018-ab62-4b39-94a9-4d1b9d465cd9
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
20.5km (12.8 miles) ⓘNavegadora claim, Penha do Norte, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
21.3km (13.2 miles) ⓘUrucum claim, Barra do CuietĂ©, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
21.6km (13.4 miles) ⓘSapucaia mine, Sapucaia do Norte, GalilĂ©ia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
24.9km (15.5 miles) ⓘZĂ© Pinto claim, Aldeia, Cuparaque, Minas Gerais, Brazil
27.6km (17.2 miles) ⓘCigana claim, Barra do CuietĂ©, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
29.1km (18.1 miles) ⓘBoa Vista pegmatite, Barra do CuietĂ©, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
29.4km (18.3 miles) ⓘBode claim, Barra do CuietĂ©, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
34.3km (21.3 miles) ⓘTelírio claim, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
37.7km (23.4 miles) ⓘItatiaia mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
70.9km (44.0 miles) ⓘGovernador Valadares meteorite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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(a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lower left:...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm,...Andrea Bartorelli: Minerals and Precious Stones of Brazil. Other important references (if any) for individual...cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson collection (I had
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localities: The Sapo mine, Ferruginha district, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil . . . . . ...Menezes Famous mineral localities: The Lac d’Amiante mine, Black Lake, Thetford Mines, QuĂ©bec . . . . ...Localities: The Sapo Mine Ferruginha District, Conselheiro Pena Minas Gerais, Brazil Luiz Menezes Rua...Horizonte Minas Gerais, Brazil 30410-080 Email: lmenezesminerals@uol.com.br The Sapo mine exploits a...specimens recently found at Brazil’s Sapo mine, near Goiabera, in Minas Gerais. The specimens show green and
Catalog/List
first offered for sale. 73007 TOURMALINE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam A classic Vietnamese...online, visit HA.com/6150 73008 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam This unusual...2015 | 12:00 PM CT   15 73009 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam Clearly defined...12:00 PM CT   17 CHINA 73012 PYROMORPHITE Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang...73013 SPESSARTINE on SMOKY QUARTZ Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian
Book
BARTORELLI ::‱ . . .. MINERALS & PRECIOUS STONES OF BRAZIL Sponsored by: VALE MINISTER.IO DA CULTURA ©...tourmaline (84 x 26 mm), Lavra do Sapo, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais. Collection of Alvaro Lucio...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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crystal, 75 mm long, from the Cruzeiro mine, Minas GĂ©rais, Brazil. See 'The location, geology and mineralogy...mineralogy of gem tourmalines in Brazil' on pp. 263-98 ISSN: 1355-4565 262 J. G e m m , 1996, 25, 4 ...location, geology and mineralogy of gem tourmalines in Brazil Jacques P. Cassedanne, Dr. Sc. *, and Maurice Roditi...tourmaline is the 'Eastern pegmatitic province' of Minas Gerais. One general and three detailed maps of specific...Non-pegmatitic deposits of tourmaline include the Brumado mine (Bahia) which produces fine red uvite crystals and
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row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalå mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacå Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler collection; Holly...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino
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Collector—Part II Fify-nine treasure hunts in Minas Gerais, 1969–2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 by...crystal cluster on matrix, 6 cm tall, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Sandor Fuss collection (2004)...Vug,” discovered on the 12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see “The...Mineralogical Record, volume 37, May–June, 2006 Cresson mine manager Dick Roelofs showing the Cresson Vug to...school; he did his Master’s work at the Rueppele iron mine in Stanton, Missouri. He spent the years 1931–1932
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and Smelting Company of British Columbia, and the Mine and Exploration Division of the Canadian Forestry...“The Mineralogy and Geology of the Silence Lake Mine” was published in Lapis (May 1985), and he was a...Colorado he worked as a miner at the Climax molybdenum mine. Benjy married Elizabeth Ann Spangler, and they...volume 51, September–October, 2020 famous Franklin mine. Russell and Alexandra were married soon after meeting...com | w w w. FineMineral.com Colorado Quartz Mine, California, USA 6 cm Rudolph Now accepting
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minerals that are great “character actors” are pyrite and members of the feldspar and the mica groups...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...muscovite with quartz, 6.8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona...locality is the Palermo No. 1 mine, near North Groton, Grafton County. This mine is known for its cornucopia...a few. Also in Grafton County is the Keyes mica mine, near the town of Orange, the premier muscovite
Report (issue)
Werner's apatite samples originated in the tin mine in the town ofEhrenfriedersdorfin the Erzgebirge...Mimetite; San Francisco Mine, Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico Pyromorphite; Les Farges Mine, Correze, France Fluorapatite...Fluorapatite, 3 cm tall; Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Fluorapatite in Calcite; Liscombe Property...quantity of hydroxylapatite at the Sapo Mine, Minas Gerais Brazil (Menezes 2009) (see page 54). The chemistry...as chemically pure as Holly Springs material, Sapo Mine hydroxylapatite may be a suitable biologic analog
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite...Fluorapatite and muscovite, 15 cm tall, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Fine Minerals International specimen, James Elliott...(Megaw and Barton 2013); the pegmatites of Minas Gerais, Brazil (Menezes and Chaves 2013); the magmatic...Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria Aberfoyle mine, Rossarden district, Tasmania Complex metamorphosed...Co-Fe-bearing skarn Brazil Numerous mines in the Oriental Pegmatite Province, Minas Gerais, and the Borborema
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mineral collector—Part 3: Treasure-hunting in Minas Gerais since 2000. . . . . . . . . . . ....the Morro da Mina manganese mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Probably the world’s finest...2008 issue for his article on the Mockingbird gold mine). Like the rest of us on the staff, he will be striving...minerals on DVD wilensky Mimetite, Pingtouling mine, Liannan Co., Guangdong, China. Wilensky Fine Minerals...Mineral Collector—Part 3: Treasure-Hunting in Minas Gerais Since 2000 Guido Steger Nestroystrasse 15 2700
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Hawthorne & W. W. Pinch Fifty-nine treasure hunts in Minas Gerais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....on albite matrix, 6.6 cm, from Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sandor Fuss/ Stuart Wilensky specimen;...Jeff Scovil photo. For more on the minerals of Minas Gerais see Guido Steger’s memoirs in this issue. The...Toronto Technical College. He learned that the Tsumeb mine in South-West Africa was producing some very beautiful...the miners was nothing new at Tsumeb; they would mine around crystal pockets until lunchtime, then go
Journal (issue)
FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...(upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection; Joe Budd...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais...Gerais, Brazil. Ex Steve SmaJe collection. Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite zoisite, 6 cm, Merelani Hills, Arusha
Catalog/List
museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky... 53002 CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one
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orogeny in the eastern São Francisco Craton, Minas Gerais, Brazil Lucilia Aparecida Ramos de Oliveira a,⇑...Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 31270-901, Brazil Centro de Desenvolvimento...Tecnologia Nuclear, CDTN, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil c Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology (IGP)...iron formations (itabirite; Eschwege, 1822) in the Minas Supergroup and the younger Serra da Serpentina Group...130–153 important repositories of iron ores in Brazil. In the Quadrilátero Ferrífero district (Fig. 1)
Catalog/List
of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized...the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated Pyrite and Quartz from the...the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic...iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in matrix from the only locality
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cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The type locality is the Jacupiranga mine, Cajati, SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil. Menezesite occurs in small microcrystal-lined...magnetite, phlogopite, ancylite-(Ce), strontianite, pyrite, and tochilinite as well as abundant clinohumite...of Junior or Jr. Menezes was born in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, on 5 October 1950, to Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes...the Jacupiranga mine in Cajati, SĂŁo Paulo State. At Jacupiranga, Menezes worked as mine engineer in the...gave him a sticker book titled Natural Richness of Brazil. Some of the stickers showed plants and animals
Report (volume)
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil J. S. BETTENCOURT Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil C. P. DE CAMPOS Lud...FERREIRA Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil 2011 Published by The Geological Society London...(Iran), Asia (Japan and China) and South America (Brazil and Argentina) and spanning rocks from Palaeoproterozoic...–Cambrian granitic magmatism in the Araçuaı́ orogen (Brazil), the Eastern Brazilian Pegmatite Province and...7852, Cidade Universitaria, 50670-000 Recife, PE, Brazil 2 Institute of Geosciences, University of São
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
petrographic and geochemical spectrum. The Cerro Sapo area hosts a small calciocarbonatite intrusion and...volcano of Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania. The Cerro Sapo complex may be regarded as an intrusive equivalent...Chiaracke carbonatite intrusion and the multiple Cerro Sapo alkaline complex. We will place the Ayopaya alkaline...the spectacular sodalite occurrence of the Cerro Sapo, which had been mined from pre-Incaic to Incaic...Cretaceous kimberlites and alkaline complexes of central Brazil (e.g. Alto Paranaiba, Juı́na) are related to mantle
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Schumacher Graphite (35 x 32 cm) of the Alibert Mine, Botogol Mt. in Siberia, rough materiaL two pencils...Haidinger in 1859 1842 in the Tsarevo-Alexandrovskaya mine near Tashkurganka River, Miass, Urals. The original...minerals by ROSE, perovskite from the A:hmatowsk mine, Slatoust, Ural Mountains (1839), and the silver... Fluorite, 17 cm - Dalnegorsk Brookite, 8 cm - Dodo Mine ■ Photos and specimens: Boris z. Kantor, except...druzas of giant gypsum in the Cave of Crystals, Naica Mine, Mexico, that reach 15 meters in height (Photo 6)
Catalog/List
directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...000-$3,000 52006 MIMETITE Var. CAMPYLITE Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland)...12:00 PM CT   11 52007 FLUORITE De’an Fluorite Mine, Wushan, De’an Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi
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SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2019 Articles The Golconda District, Minas Gerais, Brazil ..........................................TOURMALINE, 11.9 cm, from the Golconda I mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Brice Gobin (Mineral Art) and Emanuele...China, South Africa, Namibia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico. His first exchange of specimens with...as well, and they started picking over the local mine deposits together. They were married in 1970, and... Zincolivenite with Ferrilotharmeyerite | Tsumeb Mine, Namibia | 7.0 x 7.0 x 6.0 cm CRYSTAL CLASSICS
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with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite...discovery at tbe Red Cloud mine, Ed Over moved on in 1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County.
 
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