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Mertieite from
Gongo Soco mine, BarĂŁo de Cocais, Minas Gerais, Brazil


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Mertieite
Formula:Pd8Sb2.5As0.5
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mertieite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gongo Soco mine, BarĂŁo de Cocais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:142106
Long-form Identifier:1:3:142106:4
GUID (UUID V4):274a8836-2053-410c-a76c-d75daf3169ed
Nearest other occurrences of Mertieite
49.4km (30.7 miles) ⓘConceição mine, Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany ROGERIO KWITKO-RIBEIRO§ Centro de Desenvolvimento Mineral, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce...296, Caixa Postal 09, 33030-970 Santa Luzia – MG, Brazil RICHARD D. JONES 1636 East Skyline Drive, Tucson...Mina do Gongo Soco, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, Fazenda Gongo Soco, Caixa Postal 22, 35970-000 Barão de Cocais...Cocais – MG, Brazil ABSTRACT An ouro preto (black gold) nugget from Gongo Soco, Minas Gerais, Brazil...arsenide-antimonides, compositionally close to isomertieite and mertieite-II. The Pd–O coating has considerable amounts
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63, Buea, South West Province, Cameroon c Centro de Desenvolvimento Mineral, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce...Santa Luzia-MG, Brazil Mina do Gongo Soco, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, Fazenda Gongo Soco, Caixa Postal...Postal 22, 35970-000 BarĂŁo de Cocais-MG, Brazil b d Received 9 September 2005; accepted 6 March 2006 Available...(jacutinga) at Gongo Soco, an iron ore deposit in the QuadrilĂĄtero FerrĂ­fero of Minas Gerais, Brazil, have inclusions...arseno-antimonides (isomertieite and mertieite-II) and hematite. Both isomertieite and mertieite-II are commonly fractured
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compounds of the Gongo Soco mine, Quadrilätero Ferrïfero, central Minas Gerais, Brazil A. RAPHAEL CABRAL1...2A, D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany 2 Centro de Desenvolvimento Mineral, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce...Santa Luzia-MG, Brazil 3 1636 East Skyline Drive, Tucson, AZ 85178, USA 4 Departamento de Geologia, Universidade...Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, 21949-900 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil 5 Mineraça~o Socoimex...Socoimex Ltda., Fazenda Gongo Soco, Caixa Postal 42, 34800-000 Caeté-MG, Brazil ABSTR ACT New data on
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arsenide–antimonide minerals from Gongo Soco iron ore mine, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, Brazil Downloaded by...present-day Gongo Soco iron ore deposit was one of the most famous gold mines in Brazil in the nineteenth...compositions are close to mertieite -II and isomertieite. Composite crystals with a mertieite -II core and isomertieite...intergrowth of an Fe-rich, goethite-like phase in a mertieite -II-bearing palladian gold nugget is recorded...locally. Gongo Soco is one of the numerous iron ore deposits of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero of Minas Gerais
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Palaeoproterozoic Itabira Iron Formation, Minas Gerais, Brazil A. R. CABRAL1,*, B. LEHMANN2, H. F. GALBIATTI3...MG, 35900-900, Brazil 4 Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, Fazenda Gongo Soco, Barão de Cocais MG, 35970-000...35970-000, Brazil 2 ABSTR ACT Hematite is a mineral the chemical composition of which rarely differs significantly...and Gongo Soco, in the Palaeoproterozoic Itabira Iron Formation, Quadrilátero Ferrı́fero of Minas Gerais...Gerais, Brazil, has revealed distinct variations in chemical composition with respect to Ti and Cr. Hematite
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from a palladian gold nugget (Gongo Soco iron ore mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil) A. RAPHAEL CABRAL* AND B...(‘jacutinga’) of the Gongo Soco iron ore mine, Quadrilátero FerrԎfero, Minas Gerais, allows the definition...species, Gongo Soco, Itabira Iron Formation, Quadrilátero FerrԎfero, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Introduction...auriferous mineralization (‘jacutinga’) of Gongo Soco, Minas Gerais, the same locality which provided the...Source: (1) ‘jacutinga’ style mineralization, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Berzelius, 1836; Hussak, 1906b; Olivo et
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OF “NATIVE PALLADIUM” FROM MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL: EVIDENCE FROM GONGO SOCO ALEXANDRE RAPHAEL CABRAL Rua...32/704, 22231–110 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil ROGERIO KWITKO-RIBEIRO Centro de Desenvolvimento Mineral...296, Caixa Postal 09, 33030–970 Santa Luzia, MG, Brazil ABSTRACT Minute rosette-like crystals (~1 ␼m)...of a gold nugget from Gongo Soco, an iron ore deposit in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The rosettes consist essentially...oxygen-bearing palladium, gold nugget, Gongo Soco, Minas Gerais, Brazil. SOMMAIRE De trùs petits cristaux (~1 ␼m)
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HYDROGEN IN A NATURAL Pd–O COMPOUND FROM GONGO SOCO, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL ALEXANDRE RAPHAEL CABRAL§ AND BERND...encrustation of an ouro preto nugget of Gongo Soco, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is confirmed by elastic recoil detection...Pd–O-bearing compound, ouro preto nugget, Gongo Soco, Minas Gerais, Brazil. SOMMAIRE L’existence d’hydrogĂšne...oxydes de fer la patine sombre caractĂ©ristique d’une pĂ©pite de ouro preto prĂ©levĂ©e Ă  Gongo Soco, Minas...Minas Gerais, Brazil, est confirmĂ©e par une analyse par dĂ©tection du recul Ă©lastique avec un micro-faisceau
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981±994 Pd-bearing oxides and hydrated oxides in mertieite-II crystals from alluvial sediments of the Darya...Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany ABS TR ACT Coarse-grained mertieite-II [Pd8(Sb,As)3] crystals (up to 2.5 mm across)... The Pd-O-bearing compounds formed after (1) mertieite-II (Sb content reaches 23 wt.%), (2) keithconnite...leaching. K EY WORDS : PGE oxides/hydrated oxides, mertieite-II, Darya, Aldan Shield, Russia. Introduction...blackish crusts (`ouro preto') was mined in Minas Gerais, Brazil, which only much later were identiŸed as
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COMMUNICATIONS THE PLATINIFEROUS Au-Pd BELT OF MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL, AND GENESIS OF ITS BOTRYOIDAL Pt-Pd AGGREGATES...SCHLOSSER,4 ROGERIO KWITKO-RIBEIRO,5 AND FRANCISCO R. DE ABREU6 1 Department 2 Mineral of Geology: Exploration... Research Group, Faculdade de Geologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rua S. Francisco Xavier...Janeiro-RJ, Brazil 4 Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum 5 Centro ArchÀometrie, D6, 3, D-68159 Mannheim, Germany de Desenvolvimento...Luzia-MG, Brazil 6 Votorantim Metais, Praça Ramos de Azevedo 206, 01037-010 São Paulo-SP, Brazil Abstract
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the Conceição Iron Mine, Itabira District, Southern São Francisco Craton, Brazil: An Example of a Jacutinga-Type...H3A 2A7 MICHEL GAUTHIER, Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université du Québec à Montréal, Case Postale...2A7 AND MARTIN LEVESQUE Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université du Québec à Montréal, Case Postale... Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 Abstract The Conceição mine, which is located in the Itabira district, southern...an altered Lake Superior-type iron-formation. The mine sequence consists of three metamorphosed lithostratigraphic
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manganese deposit, Quadrilåtero Ferrifero, Minas Gerais, Brazil occur in the Palaeoproterozoic Itabira...Ferrífero, the world-class iron district of Minas Gerais, Brazil, numerous manganese oxide deposits Table...Itabira Iron Formation is the middle unit of the Minas Supergroup, which includes the Caraça Group, the...(dashed lines)37 in Quadrilåtero Ferrífero of Minas Gerais basal clastic unit, and the Piracicaba Group...subordinate itabirite and dolomitic phyllite. The Minas Supergroup rests unconformably on the Archaean Rio
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Sample, Area/Minerals in Au 8‰ Formula Pd Hg mertieite Σ wt.% IINPd PdTe2 , and (Sb,As)3 ) and silver...the amount of this phase in the grains Espinhaco, Brazil [38,39] as “poorly crystalline” phases. was 10%–40%...River Dart (England) [20], and Corrego Bom Sucesso (Brazil) [38,39] (Table A2). Pd,Hg-poor gold is more common...[57,58] and depositions Serra Pelada and Gongo Soco (Brazil) [40,59,60] and alluvial placers Mayt and...Similkameen River (Canada) [64]; Corrego Bom Sucesso (Brazil) [38,39]. The minor impurity Ag or (and) Cu is
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Pd-dominated platinum group minerals, namely mertieite-I/isomertieite, merenskyite, keithconnite, kotulskite...Common to all Au–Pd mineralizations worldwide (Brazil, Australia, UK), including Bleïda Far West, is...mineralization some 7 km NW of the former Bleïda copper mine. Managem, a subsidiary of the ONA group, intends...have been discovered so far (Fig. 3): (1) the zone de brùche (ZB), (2) the zone centrale (ZC), and (3)...irregular orebodies, and gold grades in the zone de brùche, is shown in Fig. 4. Drilling is still in
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Euhedral crystals of ferroan platinum, cooperite and mertieite-II from alluvial sediments of the Darya river...to 3.5 mm) of ferroan platinum, cooperite and mertieite-II were found in a heavy-mineral concentrate from...to 3 mm across, partly twinned). Crystals of mertieite-II are speckled with mm-sized (2 5 mm) inclusions...Fractures along crystallographic planes of the mertieite-II crystals are filled with Pd-Pt-Fe-Sb-As-Hg-Te-Bi-bearing...intrusions. K EY WORDS : ferroan platinum, cooperite, mertieite-II, PGE oxides, Au-PGE placer, Darya, Aldan Shield
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(including empirical PdCuBiSe3) from the former Roter BĂ€r mine, St. Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Germany: a result...2015 Abstract At Roter BĂ€r, a former underground mine in the polymetallic deposits of St. Andreasberg...and the palladium minerals are characterised as mertieite-II [Pd8(Sb,As)3] and empirical PdCuBiSe3 with...of Brazil (e.g., Meireles and Silva 1988; Cabral et al. 2002; Berni 2014). These two cases, Minas Gerais...ago to the region that became known as Minas Gerais, in Brazil (e.g., Hussak 1904; Jedwab and Cassedanne
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Au–Pd–Pt DEPOSIT, CARAJÁS MINERAL PROVINCE, NORTHERN BRAZIL ALEXANDRE RAPHAEL CABRAL§ AND BERND LEHMANN Institut...Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany ROGERIO KWITKO-RIBEIRO Centro de Desenvolvimento Mineral, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce...33030-970 Santa Luzia – MG, Brazil CARLOS HENRIQUE CRAVO COSTA Diretoria de Metais Nobres, Companhia Vale...Serra dos Carajás, 68516-000 Parauabepas – PA, Brazil ABSTRACT The Serra Pelada garimpo (1980–1984)...Pd-bearing gold, PGM (compositionally close to mertieite-II and isomertieite) and berzelianite from a nearby
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Departament de Cristal.lografia, Mineralogia i DipĂČsits Mineral, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona...laterite deposits in the Caribbean region (Villanova-de-Benavent et al. 2014 and references therein). According...Hydrogen in a natural Pd–O compound from Gongo Soco, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Canadian Mineralogist 42, 689–694...of complex Pt– Fe nuggets from Ethiopia. Bulletin de MinĂ©ralogie 104, 508–525. DILEK, Y. & FURNES, H....the NiquelĂąndia Layered Intrusion (Central Goias, Brazil): Their Magmatic Origin and Low-Temperature Reworking
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do Ouro gold mine, Cavalcante, Central Brazil J. MENEZ * AND N. F. BOTELHO Instituto de GeociĂȘncias,... Universidade de BrasĂ­lia, BrasĂ­lia, DF 70910-900, Brazil [Received 16 February 2015; Accepted 21 March...the Ticunzal Formation. In the Buraco do Ouro gold mine, the mineralization is hosted in muscovite-quartz...kalungaite (PdAsSe), isomertieite [Pd11Sb2As2], mertieite II [Pd8(Sb,As)3], sperrylite (PtAs2), padmaite...gold mineralization observed in the Buraco do Ouro mine is uncommon and unique in the context of the Aurumina
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Pd-Sb-As compounds (Pt-rich isomertieite and mertieite II) from hydrothermal fluids. (ii) Hydrothermal...2005) after a few months of production only, and the mine was closed in 1926. McDonald and Tredoux (2005)...mid-Archean that was periodically reactivated (Good and De Wit, 1997, McDonald and Tredoux, 2005). The TML has...Tredoux (2005) mainly report on the history of the mine and reflect on reasons for its failure. Armitage...followed by cooling. Samples and Methods As the mine closed in 1926, accessibility to pristine ore material
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oxidized Main Sulphide Zone at the Hartley Platinum Mine of Zimbabwe. According to these authors, these PGM...Hydrogen in a natural Pd-O compound from Gongo Soco, Minas Gerais, Brazil. – Canad. Mineral. 42: 689–694. Cabri...the Campo Formoso layered intrusion (Bahia State, Brazil): control by magmatic and hydrothermal processes...(1990): Chromitites platiniferes de l’Estrie-Beauce, Appalaches du sud de Quebec. – Mineral. Deposita 25:...oxygen-bearing compounds of platinum and palladium in Minas Gerais, Brazil. – Canad. Mineral. 36: 887–893. Jedwab,
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systems from several regions, including Australia, Brazil, Poland, and the United Kingdom. The distinctive...= Hope Cove, 11 = Wadham Rocks, 12 = Loddiswell mine. Localities in the Lammermuir Hills (adapted from...to Au-Pd alloys from the CauĂȘ iron mine, Itabira district, Brazil, was investigated by Olivo and Gammons...precipitation of Au-Pd at the Conceição iron mine, Itabira district, Brazil, following high-temperature (600°C)...percent Ag recorded in gold grains from the Lubin mine within the Kupferscheiffer of Poland (Kucha and
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in intergrowth with fuchsite or allanite and mertieite-II. In rhyolites from the Slavnaya ore zone, native...occurs in intergrowth with fuchsite, albite, and mertieite-II (type II), or albite, quartz, and atheneite...atheneite (III), or quartz, albite, Kfeldspar, and mertieite-II (IV). High-fineness gold (930–1000‰, type V)...fuchsite-quartz-allanite veinlets and often in intergrowth with mertieite or contained its inclusions. Shumilov and Ostashchenko...e AuCu and auricupride AuCu3 and Pd minerals—mertieite Pd5 Sb2 , isomertieite Pd5 AsSb, atheneite (Pd
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for Pd-antimonides in the host rocks at Cliff (mertieite II – stibiopalladinite, Fig. 10a), although these...PGE-alloys from the Bom Succeso stream in Minas Gerais, Brazil (Cabral et al., 2007, 2009). There are...(Leake et al., 1991) and Serra do Espinhaço, Minas Gerais (Cabral et al., 2008). Another example are the...on the surface of gold nuggets from Gongo Soco Fe-ores, Minas Gerais (Cabral and KwitkoRibeiro, 2004) and...(PGM) in laterites: mineral morphology. Chronique de la Recherche Miniùre, 520, 55–63. Bowles, J.F.W.
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and AugĂ© 1993; Jedwab 2004); Pd oxides in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the Aldan Shield, Russia (McDonald...Sports and Culture of Japan to y.T., and the Bureau de Recherches GĂ©ologiques et MiniĂšres of France to T...from a palladian gold nugget (Gongo Soco iron ore mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Mineralogical Magazine, 67...d’iridium naturel dans les concentrĂ©s platinifĂšres de la rĂ©gion d’Antanambao-Manampotsy, Madagascar. Comptes...mineralogy of platinum-group elements at Hartley Platinum Mine, Zimbabwe. Mineralium Deposita, 38, 344–355. Palandri
 
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