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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Tantalite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Mn,Fe)(Ta,Nb)2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tantalite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sapo Mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:632389
Long-form Identifier:1:3:632389:9
GUID (UUID V4):31ae9bc4-f850-4b71-b2a9-03f17c360ad0
Nearest other occurrences of Tantalite
24.9km (15.5 miles) ⓘZĂ© Pinto claim, Aldeia, Cuparaque, Minas Gerais, Brazil
87.0km (54.1 miles) ⓘAlto da Golconda mine, Golconda mining district, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COMPLEXITIES OF HYDROXYLAPATITE FROM THE SAPO MINE, BRAZIL H. Richards, S. Kelly, and J. Rakovan, Dept...OH 45056. The Sapo pegmatite mine, located in the eastern portion of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the municipality...municipality of Conselheiro Pena, has produced many significant specimens of apatitegroup minerals, including...and fluorapatite (gray core) on albite from the Sapo mine. Figure 2. Photomicrograph of a 1-cm zoned hydroxylapatite/...occupancy is in progress. These results show that the Sapo hydroxylapatites are complexly zoned in both structure
Journal (issue)
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
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
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (issue)
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
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)
of the lepidolite series, pollucite, tantalite-(Fe) and tantalite-(Mn), i.e., super-LCT deposits. Keywords:...and 3) lepidolite, cookeite, quartz, muscovite, tantalite-(Mn), hydroxylherderite [CaBe(PO4)(OH)] and fluorapatite...from columbite-(Fe) to columbite-(Mn), then to tantalite-(Mn). The degree of fractionation attained is...muscovite and albite of the cleavelandite habit. Keyes mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Don Dallaire collection...dikes of granitic pegmatite at the Little Three mine are hosted by tonalitic phases of the Southern California
Book
until he managed to reach the land of his dreams, Brazil. A specialist in the field of geology and mineralogy...crystals and the remarkable mineral treasures of Brazil, as well as the incredible adventures and difficulties...UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS  GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 1 Delev Ilia Deleff...UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS  GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL SOFIA–MOSCOW 2004 3 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black...NATIONAL MUSEUM IN SOFIA 66 OTHER COLLECTIONS OF MINE IN BULGARIA 71 COLLECTIONS IN OTHER CITIES AROUND
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
Report (issue)
crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...from some pegmatites. This specimen, from Minas Gerais, Brazil, is housed in the Deutsches Edelstein Museum...crystals are found in soils and stream gravels in Brazil. On the other hand, at high temperatures and pressures...microlite, more evolved members of the columbite-tantalite group, cookeite, tourmaline, lepidolite, topaz...surprise. In 1997, Gary and Mary Freeman began to mine the Orchard pit, a then insignificant pegmatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minera, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/... coupled to 21 experimental constraints on tantalite and cassiterite saturation, suggest that Nb-Ta...(Martínez-Catalån et 92 al., 2004): the Ollo de Sapo Domain (OSD) and the Schist Greywacke Complex Domain...volcanic and volcano-sedimentary rocks (Ollo de 94 Sapo Formation, see Díez Montes et al., 2010) crop out...equivalent to the volcanic 97 materials of the Ollo de Sapo Formation, most Variscan rare-metal-bearing granitoids
Journal (issue)
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)
from the corrosion of columbite and especially tantalite rims are common. The Mn/(Mn+Fe) ratio varies between...replacements of CGM and occur associated with tantalite and cassiterite. Subhedral to anhedral cassiterite...interstitial character. KEYWORDS: Tantalum, Columbite-tantalite, Microlite, Wodginite Introduction New technologies...and involves child labour (Smith et al., 2012).'Brazil and China also contribute to global tantalum supply...supply coming from the Pitinga and Mibra mines in Brazil, and about 12% of supply coming from the Yichun
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)
intrudes Precambrian-Cambrian gneisses of the Oflo de Sapo Formation. Tin ore occurs as disseminations of cassiterite...scheelite. Cassiterite, less commonly columbite and tantalite are disseminated in the apical parts of many ...feldspar, muscovite, cassiterite, columbite, tantalite, tapiolite, ilmenite, rutile, apatite and, occasionally...Ollo de Sapo outcrop. The oldest rocks in the area are the Viana Series and overlying Ollo de Sapo Formation;...platform sediments of variable depth. The OIlo de Sapo Formation is composed of porphyritic gneisses with
Book
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contents of Ta and Sn in old tailings from an Sn mine are of economic interest. Due to the relatively...supply conditions and price volatility. Moreover, mine production of minerals and metals relies on large...with its limited supply, because a single country, Brazil, produces more than 90% of the world total supply...the material has already been extracted from the mine and that its particle size has already been partially...disseminated mineralization of cassiterite and columbite-tantalite. These ores are especially abundant in the apical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granites appear in the northern sector of the Ollo de Sapo Antiform (Central Iberian Zone, Variscan Orogen)...the Esquisto– GrauvĂĄquico Complex and the Ollo de Sapo Antiform Unit (OSAU). The leucogranites intrude...foliation in the host augen gneisses of the Ollo de Sapo Formation (Fig. 2a and b). However, leucogranites...location of the Ponte Segade area in the Ollo de Sapo Antiform (Central Iberian Zone). (ModiïŹed from SITGA...km2/stock – Ollo de Sapo Orthogneisses 150.7 518.7 – Fine 20 m/stock-sills Strong Ollo de Sapo Orthogneisses
Report (issue)
plwto Plldi.wp11ïżœ. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,Uïżœ Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt...in Oruro ... 26 BY ROBERT B. COOK The Morococala Mine ..................................................ALFREDO PETROV The Cerro Sapo Sodalite Deposit: A Pre-Columbian Gem Mine ........... 80 BY ALFREDO PETROV...PETROV The Anahi Mine ................................................................................(Chacaltaya, about 5,100 meters), the highest metallic ore mine (Chorolque, up to 5,450 meters), and so on. But
Book
xenotime, monazite, cassiterite, columbite, tantalite, allanite, emerald, sapphire, topaz, aquamarine...Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) ‱Application: ore (extraction of...- aggregation of crysta ls from pil e of a coal mine; Kladn o (Czechoslovakia - width of field 15 mm)...OH )2 Saponite (Soapstone) 35 From the Latin sapo - soap (Svanberg 1840) ‱ Hardness: 1.5 ‱ Streak:...found in the Mansfeld slates in Zwickau (GDR), Wolf Mine (near Herdorf, Reichenbach, FRG), Bisbee, Georgetown
Book
(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(South Africa), Golconda (India), Oiamontlna (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Yakutia (Russia). C Colour: colourless...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...bornite and pyrite. Covellite is found at the Calabona mine (Sardinia) and Vesuvius (Italy), Salzberg (Austria)...sometimes modified by cubic faces, from the Destrtcella mine (Raddusa, Sicily). Specimens often comprise hauerite
Book
(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(South Africa), Golconda (India), Oiamontlna (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Yakutia (Russia). C Colour: colourless...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...bornite and pyrite. Covellite is found at the Calabona mine (Sardinia) and Vesuvius (Italy), Salzberg (Austria)...sometimes modified by cubic faces, from the Destrtcella mine (Raddusa, Sicily). Specimens often comprise hauerite
 
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