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Microcline from
Xanda mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Muscovite18 photos of Microcline associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Topaz11 photos of Microcline associated with Topaz at this locality.
Hydroxylherderite9 photos of Microcline associated with Hydroxylherderite at this locality.
Tourmaline6 photos of Microcline associated with Tourmaline at this locality.
Albite6 photos of Microcline associated with Albite at this locality.
Columbite-Tantalite6 photos of Microcline associated with Columbite-Tantalite at this locality.
Cleavelandite1 photo of Microcline associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Xanda mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:144175
Long-form Identifier:1:3:144175:8
GUID (UUID V4):270440d3-33b3-4609-907f-bdcd27b2bbaf
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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York circulation manager Articles The Boltsbum mine, Weardale, County Duiham, England ................by R. J. King Famous mineral localities: The Virgem da Lapa Pegmatities ................................. Bariand Arsenate minerals of the Sterling Hill mine: an overview .....................................crystal, 7 cm tall, from the Virgem da Lapa district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sorbonne collec­ tion, photo...The Mineralogical Record Jan uary-February, 1982 mine Weardale, CpuntyJ)urham, England t h e B o l
Journal (issue)
3 FEATURE ARTICLES Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais, Brazil: The Tourmalines of the Araquai Districts...tourlnaline thon anywhere else in the world-Minos Gerais, Brazil; the other with (I new locality for red tourmaline-Zcrmbia...bicolored tounnaline (12.90 ct), all from the Himalaya mine (California). Thestones were faceted by PalaInteri~ntional...thousand miles south, to the "Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais." THe first in a series (which Cdntinues in...his extensive travels in the mining regions of Brazil. Mr. Proctor received an M.S. in molecular biology
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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...Connecticut. Muscovite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, Putnam County, New York, is associated
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that Keith wandered around the neighboring gold mine dumps and developed an interest in minerals. He...found in 1967 in the Pioneira mine, Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Downloaded by [Stockholm University...from the Barra de Salinas mine, Aracuai-Itinga district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Although the owner did not...specializing in colored gemstones. Keith's travels in Brazil in search of gems and crystal specimens have added...from the Jonas mine in Brazil have sold for several hundred thousand dollars. A Jonas mine rubellite called
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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... 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson collection
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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...collection; Jeff Scovil photo. (lower left) Amazonite microcline with smoky quartz, 8.5 cm, Tree Root pocket,...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
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407-carat teardrop; both stones are from Minas Gerais, Brazil. A n ­ other featured strength of the gemstone...5-cm-thick sea-green crystal of aquamarine from Minas Gerais, Bra­ zil, catches the eye as does an emerald...California; Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Kunar, Afghanistan; as well as yellow beryl (heliodor) from Minas Gerais...Gerais, Brazil, help to fill out the suite. Featured in the same case are the minerals of the tour­ maline...crystals of blue and green el­ baite from Minas Gerais, Brazil, attest to the reputation of this prolific
Journal (issue)
Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...Pegmatites, Limoeiro Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara~uaf Pegmatite District, . Minas Gerais, Brazil, Michael A. Menzies...Specimen: Elbaite from the Cruzeiro Pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil: At the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles... 72.5 cm, Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara<;uar district, Minas Gerais, Brazil; private collection...Heliodor, 5.5 x 14.2 cm, Minas Gerais, Brazil; B: Topaz, 8 x 10.5 cm, Minas Gerais, Brazil; C: Aquamarine, 6
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MINERALS & PRECIOUS STONES OF BRAZIL Sponsored by: VALE MINISTER.IO DA CULTURA © 2009 - CARLOS CORNEJO...Lavra do Sapo, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais. Collection of Alvaro Lucio. Photograph taken...photographs: "Parafba" tourmaline (25 x 6 mm), Sao Jose da Batalha, Parafba. Courtesy of Bruno and Rolando Gioia...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
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Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. BACK COVER: Copper, 13.5 cm, from the Ray Mine, Pinal County...a superb crystal of kunzite from The White Queen mine in California lends important provenance to the...from the White Queen mine, California (plate 8) The Cerussite from the Kombat mine, Namibia (plate 19)...Tourmaline Queen mine, California (plate 31) "The Dragon" Gold from the Colorado Quartz mine, California (plate...the Tsumeb mine, Namibia (plate 51) The "Alma Queen" Rhodochrosite frorn the Sweet Horne mine, Colorado
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their dry, written lists (“Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona, 1-inch, 500; 2-inch, $2; 2 inch, $3.50”...Aesthetics Underground - Canada Alvaro Lucio M inerals - Brazil Ana Arruda - Azores Arizona M inerals Artifactual...Artifactual Im port Ausrox - Australia Barbosa, Carlos - Brazil Barcelona - US Im porters - Spain Ben David, Claude...Megaw, Peter M inerals Menezes, Luiz M inerals - Brazil M ercer M inerals M idwest M inerals M ikon M ineralien...ineralien Kontor - Germany Min - Geo - Czech Republic Minas Victoria - Spain M iner-W a - Poland Mineral Cabinet
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1982 Jules Roger Sauer ” Foreword For years Brazil has been the major producer of colored stones in...metamorphic rocks, the variety of gem deposits in Brazil is almost infinite. In addition to the mineral...assemblage one might expect from pegmatite dikes, Brazil also produces a very significant output of diamonds...written in English, and beautifully illustrated. “Brazil, Paradise of Gemstones’, by Jules Roger Sauer,...the Cruzeiro tourmaline and mica mine and the Jacobina amethyst mine. He owns several other mines as well
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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...1) Photo 4. Blue cancrinite with large, dark microcline crystals and analcime in an alkaline pegmatite...cancrinite (in bright interference colours) with microcline (above) in a pegmatite, width 3 mm, thin-section...minerals by ROSE, perovskite from the A:hmatowsk mine, Slatoust, Ural Mountains (1839), and the silver
Report (issue)
Cover: Topaz, 3.5 cm tall Capao Mine, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil Max and Jon Sigerman collection...Occurrence MIKE MENZIES 22. Topaz from Utah's Maynard Mine RYAN BOWLING 26. Volodarsk-Volynski PETER LYCKBERG... 58. Zimbabwe Blue Topaz: St. Anne's Mine JAN KANIS 60. Brazil: The Land of Topaz DIETMAR SCHWARZ 68...locality in Brazil (Sinkankas, 1981). Two gemmy crystals from the Te6filo Ot6ni region in Minas Gerais, Brazil...three huge specimens from Te6filo Ot6ni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, that are housed at the Smithsonian Institution
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Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly
Catalog/List
ussingite. (Intermediate in composi tion between microcline and nepheline.) •82806 (a) 1 x 1 cm - 2 x 2 cm...1 cm . .. $20.00 (b) Chip ... $5.00 QUARTZ, Minas Gerais , Brasil. Very large (23 x 15 x 12 cm) terminated...charoite. Commonly associated minerals are acmite , microcline, peach to brown colored tinaksite in addition...9 cm - 9 x 12 cm ... $15.00 AgCI , Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill , New South Wales. 10 x 5 x 4 cm matrix...MALACHITE, . . . $120.00 AESCHYNITE-Y Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba , Zaire. •82834 (a) Excellent green
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Green’s Farm, otherwise known as the Roxbury Garnet Mine, which is on the border between Roxbury and Southbury...and is typical of what could still be found in the mine. To me, its label “makes” this specimen. I am very...this plethora of vibrant crystals. Miss Sterling, a mine owner, called in a state geologist, and it was soon...that more specimens will be recovered here, as the mine is now a part of Fort Drum. The Sterlingbush find...Diamonds Mine” in Middleville, Herkimer County. Most of the quartz crystals from this mine are colorless
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or May 2006 in the Cigana Mine (used to be Jocao Mine) (Galilea, Minas Gerais, • Brasil). The hureaulite...crystals to 25 mm from Lavra do Po~o (Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brasil). To round off his tour-de-force of...topaz crystals from Mina Teixerinha (Itinga, Minas Gerais), carrying cinnamon-colored crusts of "crud'...theCiganaMine(usedto beJocaoMine),Galilea,MinasGerais, Brazil Strolling. mineralogically fulfilled. from Jordi's...I heard of babingtonite crystals on prehnite from Da Liang Shan (Sichuan Province. China) but never saw
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and Anthony R. Kampf Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais, Brazil: Exploration, Occurrence, and Aquamarine...the northeastern section of the state of Minas Gemis, Brazil. The history of gem exploration and m i n...from the Pioneer mine in the Te6filo Otoni-Marambaia pegmatite district of Minas Gerais. As is common with...gem pegmatite regions of the 20th century: Minas Gerais, Brazil. With these articles, we hope to take you...what pegmatite gems have meant historically in Brazil and the production of one very important pegmatite
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mineral collector—Part 3: Treasure-hunting in Minas Gerais since 2000. . . . . . . . . . . ....inches), from the Morro da Mina manganese mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Probably the world’s...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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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
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for scale next to a giant beryl crystal at Senhora da Assun9iio in Portugal uncommonly seen in beryl and...crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...long by 1.5 meters wide have been found at Senhora da Assun�io, Portugal. Pegmatites at Mahajamba, Madagascar...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
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. . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and...citations on the Harding mine and information about other collections of Harding mine specimens. The museum...high-quality, precisely located specimens from the mine. Interested persons should send helpful information
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Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...during the warm season. Only a watchman stays at the mine through the winter. Last year, the teamleader Vasilii...tourmaline is associated with cleavelandite, morion, microcline, lepidolite, apatite, topaz, fluorite, and hambergite...associated with polychromatic tourmaline, rubellite, microcline, cleavelandite, m o r i o n , fluorite, apatite...topaz is i n paragenesis with lepidolite, morion, microcline, rosterite, green apatite, pyrochlore, tantalite
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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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