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Torbernite from
Real quarry, Real, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Torbernite
Formula:Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Torbernite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Real quarry, Real, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:271950
Long-form Identifier:1:3:271950:4
GUID (UUID V4):147ae17a-836d-40ec-8f5a-b45eb6409472
Nearest other occurrences of Torbernite
2.4km (1.5 miles) ⓘNossa Senhora da Esperança quarry, Quintela de Azurara, Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
3.0km (1.9 miles) ⓘFreixiosa Mine, Freixiosa, Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
3.6km (2.2 miles) ⓘPinhal do Souto Mine, Tragos, Tavares (Chãs; Várzea e Travanca), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
6.0km (3.7 miles) ⓘCova da Raposa Mine, Tavares (Chãs; Várzea e Travanca), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
6.1km (3.8 miles) ⓘVila Seca Mine, Vila Seca, Tavares (Chãs; Várzea e Travanca), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
6.3km (3.9 miles) ⓘBom Sucesso No. 4 quarry, Tavares (Chãs; Várzea e Travanca), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
6.4km (4.0 miles) ⓘCorga de Valbom Mine, Esmolfe, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
6.8km (4.2 miles) ⓘQuinta da Boa Vista Mine, Abrunhosa-a-Velha, Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
7.6km (4.7 miles) ⓘRegada, Cubos-Mesquitela-Mangualde area, Mangualde (Mesquitela e Cunha Alta), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
7.8km (4.8 miles) ⓘRochel, Cubos-Mesquitela-Mangualde area, Mangualde (Mesquitela e Cunha Alta), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STUDIES IN THE DRAINAGE BASIN OF THE RIO VOUGA (PORTUGAL) I1. A Model for the Origin of Hydrothermal Water...studies in the drainage basin of the Rio Vouga (Portugal), II. A model for the origin of hydrothermal water...The hydrothermal waters in the Vouzela region (Portugal) have a temperature o f 68°C and are characterized...Granites are exposed, the Abas Granite and the S~o Pedro do Sut Granite. The Abas Granite is intersected by the...deposits were induced by the intrusion o f the Younger Viseu Granite. In the present situation rainwater penetrates
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law. Please purchase only authorized editions and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy............................................. 26 Portugal ................................................general characteristics. Because no single book can do justice to the vast literature in this field, the...to increase somewhat in 2003. India and Pakistan do not report production figures, but for 2002 their...the products of radioactive decay, primarily lead, do not have as high an affinity for oxygen as uranium
Report (issue)
Gatas mine group, Sabroda, Vila Real district, Norte Region, Portugal. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo...through with some new and beautiful fluorite from Portugal—not from Panasqueira (although he has that, too)...in the Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, Norte Region. These seven fluorite specimens...fibers or clay during shipping,” but you could hardly do better than this for natural specimens of the water-soluble...reported, that this was “a brand-new locality for torbernite.” Well, the Rosell Minerals specimens were collected
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law. Please purchase on ly authorized ed itions and do not participate in or encourage the electro11 ic............................................. 52 Portugal ........... ... ................................n be better understood. While no single book can do justice to the vast literature in this field, I have...food and drink and washing hands after handling. l do not recon1111end using gloves for the sin1ple reason...the products of radioactive decay, primarily lead, do not have as high an affinity for oxygen as uranium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton. A few of the octahedral crystals...if you still collect locality specimens? I have a real old timer, a small specimen, about 1 y2 inch x 1...around here 'rattlebox' as it rattles when shaken. I do not know what the white one is other than a type...HAMPSHIRE—Yellow beryl xls have been found in an old quarry on Page Hill in Grafton, Grafton Co., N . H . N...recently an attractive specimen consisting of green torbernite with yellow uranophane and both on white feldspar
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abandoned trap rock operation. From the floor of the quarry seams of tan and white minerals were discernable...need of straying onto forbidden soil. Our first real vacation in three years took us south through Baltimore... in a snowstorm where we explored the feldspar quarry known as the McKinney Mine. (This was a casual...xl (macro) and some specimens of the richest torbernite and autunite we'd ever seen. (New Hampshire collectors...bright green xls of torbernite — nonfluorescent. On the specimens of the torbernite alone the xls occurred
Journal (issue)
dematoid variety) from the abandoned Sferliin asbestos quarry in the Malenco Valley, following in the footsteps...527-537. GHIARA, M. R., and PETII, C. (2008) Il Real Museo Mineralogico dell' Universita Federico II...crystals to 5.8 cm on edge), from the Azcarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain. Roberto Appiani photo....serpentine, 9.5 cm, found in 1947 at the Sferlun quarry, Malenco Valley, Lombardy, ltaly. Roberto Appiani...1950 in the Barroca Grande mine, Panasqueira, Portugal. Jeff Scovil photo. ELBAITE two 9-cm doubly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranophane and to a lesser extent with U micas (torbernite, autunite). Furthermore native copper, chalcopyrite...A T = = selenide = uronophane = clutunite : torbernite precise height of sompte site unknown ~ r :...Area At $3, $4, 86, S12 and S15 uranophane and torbernite prevail, whereas at Sll, $5 and in some small...micas occur (Fig. 5, 6). Both occurrences (S13, S14) do not contain any Cu minerals but only/Luranophane...Rundschau, Bd. 72 967 H. DILL the Cu-bearing zone torbernite predominates partly due to the cation Cu ~+ in
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complicated tools, and then to combine several of them to do a simple work. He prescribes to "gadgetry" and accomplishes...was ready to go on. Our advise to you—"Go thou and do likewise." Our sources for New England anatase are...rounded xls in and on feldspar in the schist. TORBERNITE—Several forms have been found including emerald...known existed, and, too, you eventually acquire a real reference library. Among other things we have Sowerby's...these phosphates from Indian Mt., Ala. for trade. Real good ones. That's where we got ours.) W e recently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Toronlo. ABsrRAcr Phosphuranylite from Urgeirica, Portugal is orthorhombic, Bmmb with a 15.85, b 17.42, c...62,c 13.66 A. Calculations of unit cell contents do not lead to unique chemical formulas for the minerals...when we obtained a small specimenfrom Urgeirica, Portugal showing numerous tiny laths of phosphuranylite...Ruggles Mine, New Hampshire and from Carrasca, Portugal. The indices of lead-bearing phosphuranylite are...examination showed that it was interlayered with meta-torbernite. A few small grains of pitchblende were seen
Journal (issue)
by L. A. D. Menezes and J. M. Martins The Jensen quarry, Riverside County, California ...................our stock is now down to the last 150 copies. We do not envision having another print run.” CONGRATULATIONS...noticed by Bill on a specimen from the San Venanzo quarry, Terni, Umbria, Italy, and was later recognized...lists. If you haven't received one lately, then I do not have your most recent address. latortnce l^...in relative obscurity fo r decades, the Jensen quarry has produced nearly 90 species including excellent
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Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland 181 13 63 72 75 16 99...contain minerals and rocks from the famous pegmatite quarry at Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. A further 600...fossils from the Mid-Eocene oilshales of the Messel quarry, near Darmstadt, including a complete primitive...Wildschapbach; the Wittichen mining area; Artenberg quarry, S_teinach; 38 Museum fur Naturkunde Gerberau...Wildschapbach Sphalerite, Fluorite, Tetrahedrite Artenberg quarry, Steinach Mimetite Michael mine, Weiler, Lahr
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point: "I have pitchblende on my land. What shall I do with it?" "How much is hair, uranium ore worth...can I sell my uranium ore?" "Do I need a license to mine uranium?" "How do I stake a mining claim?" As...Scintillation of Counters 268 Companies Equipped IX. to Do Aerial Radioactivity Surveys Laws and Regulations...beryllium minerals will be found in Chapter VIII. 18 do more of beryllium that they of extraction. Descriptions...really serious "atomic prospectors" are encouraged to do so should refer to the standard textbooks on the
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Lomagundi Event. Thirty five of the 42 samples, which do not show obvious hydrothermal alteration, have higher...dissolution pits and widespread surface etching occur and do so simultaneously with surface precipitation. For...palaeoenvironmental studies rely on a single core and do not consider the potential complication of intra-basin...minerals from the Picoto uranium mine area, central Portugal R. TEIXEIRA1, I.M. ANTUNES2 AND A.M. R. NEIVA3...Vila Real, Portugal (rteixeir@utad.pt) 2 Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-919 Castelo Branco
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Since the elements of a compound determine its real structure thoses elements can have a gross effect...examples of this are the minerals autunite and torbernite. They contain pretty much the same elements in...Autunite contains calcium while torbernite contains copper. Torbernite, containing a known quencher of...permit me to site all the examples possible which do support the generalizations I've made. The mineral...secondary minerals such as autunite, torbernite, meta-autunite, meta-torbernite, uranophane, meta-uranophane
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rocks, but the latter do not seem to be present in specimens actually dug from a quarry or prospect. Of course...species have actually been observed from the specific quarry and, therefore, the various minerals came from...these stories after hearing them, bllf this I cannot do. (Continues on page 4) Mineral News ----2 Newry...Similarly. pollucite is listed only for the Dunton Quarry, as it probabl) has been found only at that locality...1975. 1980). The Dunton Pegmatite hosts the Dunton Quarry. The Crooker Pegmatite hosts the Crooker Prospect
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all com.ets are turned from the, sun. I do not knoiv why they do this, whether it is etiquette among thern...oxides, hydroxides, oxygen salts, and silicates. They do not occur naturally as native elements, sul:6des...characteristics form two sb"Ucturally related groups, the torbernite and metatorbernite groups (1~able 1.11). Beintema...TABLE 1.11. Minerals of the torbernite and metatorbernite gro,ups Torbernite group I-I20 Autunite . .... Uranospinite .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . Torbernite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sabugalite
Journal (issue)
engineer in Alberta's oil patch), but it offers a real dearth of mineral collecting localities. Thus I...Minerals from the Skarn of Mina Brejui, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Alexander U. Falster1 Luizhelio Barreto...located near Currais Novos in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The skarn body is presently being... private collections. Although these collections do contain many of the best aesthetic specimens in the...because the "collector" had the money lo do so, with no real mincralogic interest or purpose evident.
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went for four figures. Calcite! How many tons of it do your figure came out over the years? They say that...deadly minerals are cinnabar, orpiment, stibnite, torbernite, arsenopyrite, chrysotile, galena, hutchinsonite...be fatal. This extraordinary level of tox­ 4.torbernite icity is due to arsenic’s chemical similar­ The...min­ ity to phosphorus, an element that is eral torbernite, Cu2(UO2)2(PO4)‱ 10­ vital to the cellular chemistry...medicinal preparations, cosmetics, green crystals, torbernite is popular and paint pigments in ancient Mesopo­
Journal (issue)
â–ș "Have another one"? "I don't mind if I do" K.H. -6- DO'.,'VN TO EARTH This article appeared in the...and mineral associations. John Hall continues to do a superb job of co-ordinating the evening and making...of those as chairman , will be moving down to his real home in the South of France. Similarly Roger and...open mind, started asking: Is this the best we can do and is it what members really want? A simple example...responded by saying that not all members are willing to do so because of the risk of inadvertently being added
Catalog/List
2 x 0.8 cm) with parallel band of green meta-torbernite followed by curite , soddyite, and minor becquerelite...off with bright emerald green torbernite (apparently not meta-torbernite I), all on jet-black unoxidized...specimens. Given the difficulty in locating them, we do not expect to be able to restock them in the foreseeable...ores, and rare species. All in 5 x 5 cm size. A real bargain! ‱ 83B18 . . .. .. .. . .......... .. .... ..................... $125.00 PREHNITE, Lane Quarry, Westfield, Massachusetts ) Lime-green prehnite
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specimen. 5 PEGMATITE MINERALS FROM CI-IYWOON QUARRY The UK Joumal efMines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Stephen Burchmore ‱ David Green NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY 43 The views and opinions expressed in this Journal...ALGODONITE AND DOMEYKITE FROM NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Publication of information on a collecting site...colour zoned specimen from the little known Vaynor Quarry near Merthyr Tydfil and a group of purple cubes...fluorite cube on barite from Hilton Mine, which was a real jaw dropper. Richard Belson's case featured a large
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visited the State some few months ago. COLORADO—Torbernite, as greenish incrustations, has been found in...for the talc was Georgia Marble Co. Verde Antique Quarry, 2 miles s/w of Holly Springs, Cherokee Co., Ga...rock xls have been found in gĂ©odes in a limestone quarry about 2 miles east of Wymore, Gage Co., Nebr. NEVADA...Pa., last week, I stopped off at the serpentine quarry which you mentioned in the Jan.Feb., 1952, issue...chalcopyrite, and I got one very small piece of torbernite in serpentine which kicks the geiger counter
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are in centimeters. It was thought preferable to do this because conversion to feet and inches is more...114 Autunite............................... 116 Torbernite (Chalcolite) . 118 Meta-zeunerite and Novacekite...fluorescent in ultra-violet light. With the exception of real emeralds, beryls are minerals from pegmatites. In...26 feet by 6 feet. 1 - Beryl/Morganite (Corrego-do-Urucum, Minas Gerais, Brazil): 25 cm. 2 - Beryl/Heliodorus...The finest specimens come from Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), India (Poonah) and, formerly, from the Andreasberg
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are in centimeters. It was thought preferable to do this because for exconversion to feet and inches......... Schoepite........ Autunite. .. «22... Torbernite (Chalcolite) . 114 114 114 116 118 Meta-zeunerite...fluorescent in ultra-violet light. With the exception of real emeralds, beryls are minerals from pegmatites. In...26 feet by 6 feet. 1 — Beryl/Morganite (Corrego-do-Urucum, Minas 2 — Beryl/Heliodorus (Siberia, USSR):...The finest specimens come from Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), India (Poonah) and, formerly, from the Andreasberg
 
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