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Limestone from
Marble quarries, Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal


Locality type:Quarry
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Type:Limestone
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Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarries, Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1234326
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1234326:3
GUID (UUID V4):dabb91c4-0c65-48de-9f7c-41908bdbc0f4
References
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Report (chapter)
2015 Global Heritage Stone: Estremoz Marbles, Portugal LUÍS LOPES1,2* & RUBEN MARTINS1 1 University...Évora, Portugal 2 Geophysics Centre of Évora, Rua Romão Ramalho, 59, 7002 554 Évora, Portugal *Corresponding...(Southern Branch of the European Variscides in Portugal). This 40 km NW–SE structure presents outcrop...Roman period, pieces of art made with Estremoz Marble were exported abroad and can be found in museums...Present day, Estremoz Marble objects can be found all over the world. The very rich marble based heritage is
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF MINES BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART III MARBLE By D. F. HEWITT INDUSTRIAL MINERAL REPORT NO...five parts: Part T II III IV V Introduction Limestone Marble Sandstone Granite Industrial Mineral Report...acceptable. BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART III: MARBLE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction ...........and Durability .......................... Ontario Marble Deposits ................................ Haliburton...township .............................. Grenville Marble Company ...........*.... 25 25 25 Porosity and
Report (issue)
Copyright@gov.on.ca ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES THE LIMESTONE INDUSTRIES OF ONTARIO 1958-1963 by D. F. Hewitt...................o..... Production and use of limestone in Ontario .................., l 2 The cement...Specifications and uses of limestone and dolomite ...o******** 9 11 Ontario limestone quarries .................... l* Precambrian Limestone and Dolomite ......................o 11 12 Quarries .............................*.. Stoklosar Marble Quarries Ltd., Madoc ........co.. Hastings Marble Products Ltd., Madoc
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral. 2004, 16, 619–629 The provenance of “red marble” monuments from the 12th-18th centuries in Hungary...Budapest, Hungary Abstract: “Red marble” (Liassic-Dogger nodular limestone, ammonitico rosso) which was mined...and especially in Hungary in the past centuries. Quarries are known from the Gerecse-Mts. (Hungary), Adnet...(Italy). Determination of the provenance of the “red marble” monuments is not feasible on the basis of petrographical...most typical and important Central European “red marble” occurrences (the Gerecse-Mountains, Hungary and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
soROCKS AND MINERALS xline—crystalline lid limestone bed of the above mentioned creek, and in to which...that runs through the area, and in the Keokuk limestone cliffs along the creek. We found many good géodes...Citrus Co., Fla. These nodules geode. occur in limestone lenses in the lower part Quartz (Rock crystal)...vein in mass in quartz geode. cellular grayish limestone. Found in the INDIANA—Siderite was once mined...xls) with brownish xline chondrodite on grayish limestone; locality is Gibraltar Rock Area, Edenville, (Orange
Report (issue)
mapped the Namanga-Bissel area. The Kenya Marble Quarries Co. Ltd. have for over 40 years worked the...near Turoka for agricultural lime and statuary marble, and a concise but complete account is given of...of the Kajiado area 10 —Plan of the Kenya Marble Quarries . . 11 —Plan of the diatomite deposit, near...structures of the area. The workings of the Kenya Marble Quarries Co. Ltd. are described and other economic prospects...excessive rainfall. The road to the Kenya Marble Quarries is in quite good condition, becoming impassable
Book
MiDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MIDDLEBURY. VT. THE Marble Border WESTERN /TS CEOLOay NP:W ENGLAND. M.IA-HLR...a-vniELL. 'JC>. MAP OP MARBLE BORDER. Prof. EZRA BRAINERD. GEOLOGY OP THE MARBLE BELT, Prof. - - -...Mass., Struthers, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa., Early Marble - - - James Clapp, M. A., London, England,...of Machinery, Rev, - EZRA BRAINERD. MARBLE FIELDS AUD MARBLE rNDUSTRY, - 65 _ - - - 66 Middlebury...of the Middlebury Historical Society was caUed marble industries of New England by a question which
Report (issue)
MARBLE RESOURCES OF KETCHIKAN AND WRANGELL DISTRICTS. By ERNEST F. BUECHAED. INVESTIGATION. Studies...brief examination of the marble areas on Prince of Wales, Kosciusko, Marble, Orr, Tuxekan, Heceta, Ham...12, when work was closed at Ketchikan. All the marble deposits that were producing and all that were...intrusive and metamorphic rocks associated with the marble deposits was determined by J. B. Mertie, of the...^ '<--, r't ^ DISTRIBUTION OF THE MARBLE. ^ Beds of marble occur in places along the mainland in
Report (edition)
MA R BLES- OF GEORG I A PLATE !-FRONTI SPIECE MARBLE BLUFF, ON THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD...claims, before architects and builders, that Georgia marble was one of the most beautiful and durable building...from the presidents of the tw@ oldest and largest marble-producing concerns in Georgia, testifying that...securing some of the largest -contracts in Georgia marble in this country. There continues to be great demand...Cherokee County, known to the trade as V erd Antique marble. Care has been taken to preserve the general character
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eventually, the use of the same distinctive white limestone for banks, offices, and other buildings of importance...paving here is a chequer-board of black and white MARBLE; the white variety is probably Italian from Carrara...black is probably a limestone of Carboniferous age, either brought over from quarries near Tournai in Belgium... the dark limestone takes a polish and so technically to the Trade would be called 'marble' although...history and the recrystallised texture of a true marble expected by the geologist. There are no diagnostic
Report (edition)
https://books.google.com GEORGIA ILMER MARBLE ,.COUNTY BLUFF FRONTISPIECE I. PLATE GEOLOGICAL...State Printer, Manager 1894 G .COUNTY EORGIA MARBLE ,BLUFF ILMER FRONTISPIECE I. PLATE With the...SEMI-CRYSTALLINE MARBLES ........... 54 VIII . MARBLE-DRESSING WORKS ............. 58 IX . SPECIMENS........ 62 X. MACHINES AND IMPLEMENTS USED IN MARBLE QUARRYING AND DRESSING ...... 64 XI . PHYSICAL...THE MARBLE INDUSTRY IN PICKENS COUNTY, GEORGIA. In 1840, Fritz T. Simmons began quarrying marble on a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
528 Miscellaneous—Marble Quarries of the Island of Paros. Mr. Spence Bate took great interest in Art...ISLAND OP PAROS, IN THE CYCLADES, AND ITS MARBLE QUARRIES.1 The Island of Paros is eleven miles long...chiefly of crystalline limestone. There is no evidence here of the age of this limestone; but that of Attica...statuary marble, or lychnitis, varies from five to fifteen feet in thickness at the quarries of St. Minas...bed of coarsegrained white marble, with bluish black veins. The coarse marble becomes dark in colour near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marbles. A total of 135 marble specimens were collected in Spain and Portugal from the Betic chain (Alhaurin...parameters that allow discriminating the sampled marble quarries. The carbonate minerals composition is distinctive...discriminating also between these two dolomitic marble quarries. The Ossa Morena and Estremoz Anticline marbles...provenance studies on Thamusida (Kenitra, Morocco) Roman marble artefacts, a specific comparison between this new...which suggested the Almadén de la Plata and Mijas quarries as possible sources of raw materials for the production
Report (issue)
Caldwell Mine Angelstone (Tatlock) quarry Omega Marble Tile and Terrazzo quarry Bathurst Quarry Foster...Kaladar marble quarry Roblindale quarry Actinolite Mine Tweed marble quarry Tweed limestone quarry Hungerford...(Diamond) Mine Hazzards Corner marble quarries Pinewood Park Lake Road quarries Henderson and Conley talc...Mine Wallbridge Mine Stoklosar (Marmora Road) quarries Perry Mine Coe Mine Perry Lake mine Blakely Mine...Madoc marble quarry Seymour Mine Freeman quarry Dominion Mine Ackerman Mine Marmora Road quarries Deloro
Report (volume)
Areal distribution of calcitic and dolomitic limestone........................ Greylock and Berlin quadrangles.............. .............. Granular calcitic limestone and associated dolomite ........................ IV CONTENTS. Page. Structure exposed at the quarries.......................................... West.......... Utilization of the granular calcitic limestone............................ Scientific conclusions...Relations of dolomite and calcite in the Stockbridge limestone as bearing upon the origin of dolomite ......
Report (chapter)
lyellcollection.org/ by guest on January 23, 2019 Connemara Marble, Co. Galway, Ireland: a Global Heritage Stone Resource...of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland 3 Connemara Marble Industries Ltd, Moycullen, Co. Galway, Ireland...*Correspondence: wysjcknp@tcd.ie Abstract: Connemara Marble, a well-known distinctive decorative stone from...as a Global Heritage Stone Resource. Connemara Marble is a sillimanite-grade ophicarbonate, dominated...forsterite, tremolite clinochlore and phlogopite. The marble displays intricate corrugated layers that range
Report (issue)
(Tatlock) quarry................................ Omega Marble Tile and Terrazzo quarr y.. . . . . . . . . . ........••...•...••........••......•..•.• Kaladar marble quarry ••.•••....•.........•..............• Roblindale........•..••....•..••.............••...... Tweed marble quarry . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • Tweed limestone quarry . . . . . . . • . . . . . • . . . . • . . •... . . . . . . .........•.. Hazzards Corner marble quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
partially serpentinized grains in Precambrian limestone at Coles Brook in Middlefield, Hampshire County...include yellow grains in white “crystalline limestone” (marble) west of North River, Essex County; similar...similar yellow grains at the Atlas limestone quarry and west of Bear Mountain near upper Twin Lakes, Greenwood...Rockland County; and in rounded yellow crystals in “limestone” near Oxbow and Yellow Lake, St. Lawrence County...occurs in local abundance with forsterite in altered marble at the Lakeshore mine and in the Treasure State
Report (issue)
Description, Selection, And Procurement Of Shelburne Marble Samples Used To Study Effects Of Acid Rain by...selected for field exposure studies, the Salem Limestone from Bloomington, Indiana. This report describes...this program, the Shelburne Marble from Danby, Vermont. This particular marble was chosen because: (1) it...VERMONT MARBLES In a geologically strict sense, marble is a metamorphic rock, the precursor carbonate-rich...(CaMg(C03)2). In commerce, marble is a term applied to any more or less crystallized limestone capable of taking
Book
to be discovered, particularly in the Grenville Marble deposits. Directions are given to some of the better...derived from sedimentary rocks) and the Grenville Marble. Graywacke, arkose, shale or siltstone may well...products of a meta­ morphosed sandy and/or clayey limestone. In an area of more than 500 square miles from...and Black Lake to Edwards, outcrops of Grenville Marble are in contact with many coarse grained rocks....sandy dolomitic limestone. Ogdensburg dolomite is an Ordovician dolomitic limestone, younger than the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1017/S0016756800189654 528 Miscellaneous—Marble Quarries of the Island of Paros. Mr. Spence Bate took...ISLAND OP PAROS, IN THE CYCLADES, AND ITS MARBLE QUARRIES.1 The Island of Paros is eleven miles long...chiefly of crystalline limestone. There is no evidence here of the age of this limestone; but that of Attica...statuary marble, or lychnitis, varies from five to fifteen feet in thickness at the quarries of St. Minas...bed of coarsegrained white marble, with bluish black veins. The coarse marble becomes dark in colour near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diverse array of deposit types that include skarns, limestone replacements, Mississippi Valleytype, volcanogenic...2 cm from the Bull Run and Virginia Trap Rock quarries, Loudoun County; the Manassas quarry in Prince...widespread as a sparse accessory mineral in Iowa’s limestone quarries and was an important mineral in its historical...10 cm have been found in the quarries at Mont Saint-Hilaire. Limestone-hosted base-metal deposits of...sphalerite specimens, particularly from its many limestone-replacement or manto-type ore deposits. Excellent
Report (issue)
lakes, and fishing is good. Many of the mines and quarries listed in this guidebook are on private property...Feldspar and Beryl Nepheline Syenite Fluorspar Marble and Sodalite Mica Uranium Bancroft Trip 1 Bancroft...quarry. 29 An example of unconformity between limestone 30 and granite, Highway 28 north of Lakefield...outside Bancroft. View from Eagles Nest lookout. Marble tectonic breccia on Monck Road. Bicroft uranium...Carson Lake, Highway 60. Feather amphibolite dike in marble, Umfreville. Lake L'Amable, Highway 62 south of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
554 Dr. Du Riche Preller—The Carrara Marble District. Another conclusion follows from the above-named...century old. It is fortunate that, as now the quarries are being so rapidly enlarged, they and the Forest... Dr. Du Riche Preller—Tlie Carrara Marble District. 555 marble beds are situated, covers about 25 by...kilometres or about 130 square miles, of which the marble zone proper represents 64 square miles or about...the Serchio valley in the Province of Lucca. The marble district, whose western part faces the Mediterranean
Book
w'cSSSS MARBLE MOUNTAIN, 1888. S. M. Mackenzie, Printer. New...operate the extensive and very valuable marble deposits at Marble Mountain, West Bay, Cape Breton. That...PROPERTY. The Marble Deposits above referred to are situated on North Mountain, now called Marble Mountain...degrees and 700 feet in length will lead from ihe quarries to the margin of the There is good bold water...drainage^-thus saving the large outlay required in other quarries to keep them free from Water—-wliile, where openings
 
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