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Amber from
Lisbon, Portugal


Locality type:District
Classification
Species:'Amber' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amber data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lisbon, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:775736
Long-form Identifier:1:3:775736:5
GUID (UUID V4):517c8c91-5e30-4d74-97fe-696fd2d3df65
Localities for Amber in this Region
Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal
SĂŁo JoĂŁo do Estoril, Cascais e Estoril, Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal
SĂŁo Pedro do Estoril Beach, Cascais e Estoril, Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal
Nearest other occurrences of Amber
20.0km (12.4 miles) ⓘSão Pedro do Estoril Beach, Cascais e Estoril, Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal
21.5km (13.3 miles) ⓘSão João do Estoril, Cascais e Estoril, Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal
References
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[University of Glasgow] at 09:47 30 December 2014 LISBON, PORTUGAL, 5-11 DECEMBER 1994 ROBERT I. GAIT Department...Museum of Natural History (part of the University of Lisbon) to take part in its week-long International Mineralogical...mineral display there. The symposium took place in Lisbon and was timed to coincide with the Eighth International...interest to collectors. Guests from countries outside Portugal included Dr. Jean DeMouthe, California Academy...University of Lisbon, and Luis A. B. Teixeira Leite, from Lisbon, were the speakers from Portugal. Leite, after
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civilized world through the trade in tin and in amber ; but it was all vague and misty. The position of... Still less was known about the sources of the amber supply. Pytheas, the Phocsean Greek of Marseilles...there was a correspondence between Alfonso V. of Portugal and Christian I. of Denmark, in which the former...make discoveries, at the request of Alfonso V. of Portugal. Both kings diecl in This content downloaded...assistant " conservador " at the Torre do Tumbo in Lisbon, kindly made a search for me in the archives of
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Medicine, Avenida Gago Coutinho, 151, 1749 – 084 Lisbon, Portugal msameirobarroso@gmail.com Abstract: Coral...collection). Fig. 2. Coral fossil (Miocenic) from Lisbon (author’s collection). In his work Naturalis Historia...an ingredient of a syrup made of ruby, pearls, amber from Medina Sidonia (actual city of Cadiz, in Andalusia)...wealthy physician or pharmacist, in Lisbon. He was educated in Lisbon and in the Spanish city of Léon....ingredients used by Peter of Spain, including pearls, amber, red and white coral, topaz, the Jew’s stone, ivory
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By Anna Malecka 752 Characterization of Mexican Amber from the Yi Kwan Tsang Collection V. L. Villani... France; Rui Galopim de Carvalho, Portugal Gemas, Lisbon, Portugal; Lee A. Groat, University of British...only a few decades after Brazil was claimed for Portugal by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500. Led by an explorer...Mid-20th Centuries) After Brazil’s independence from Portugal in 1822, the new emperor Dom Pedro I opened the...Europeans as well as by Indians who travelled to Lisbon as early as the first quarter of the 16th century
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For more on historic diamond cutting styles in Portugal, see the article by R. Galopim de Carvalho on...Fundação EugĂ©nio de Almeida / Arquidiocese de Évora, Portugal; composite image by Orasa Weldon. ISSN: 1355-4565... France; Rui Galopim de Carvalho, Portugal Gemas, Lisbon, Portugal; Lee A. Groat, University of British...Fundação EugĂ©nio de Almeida—Arquidiocese de Évora, Portugal. Diamond Cuts in Portuguese Jewellery 115 Feature...name point became common to describe them. In Portugal during the 16th century, such a diamond was also
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Arqueologia, Praça do Império, 1400 Lisboa, Portugal (e-mail: msameirobarroso@netcabo.pt) Abstract:...Golden bulla, Pombalinho (Grândola, Setúbal, Portugal). Size: length, 1.2; width 8 cm; first/second... Bronze bulla Bronze, Torre de Ares, Algarve (Portugal), Roman period, first/fourth century AD. Size:...from the S Domingos pharmacy in Chiado Square, Lisbon. He prescribed this cordial mainly for malignant...Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. including cinnabar, quicksilver and even antimony
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Florence, indeed; depended on England, Spain, and Portugal for wools of fine quality, its own and other wools...indication of the prices of the wools of Spain and Portugal in Florence. Besides manufacturing cloths from...probably from Pietro Pasqualigo, a Venetian envoy at Lisbon at the time of the return of the second Portuguese...the spices would be brought from the Indies to Lisbon," 1 See the account of this attempt, and its results...the voyage by sea being exempt, it resulted that Portugal could.give them at a much lower price." So said
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context of a driver example patterned after the ‘Amber Alert’ emergency system in the USA. Section 3 describes...and §6 gives our conclusions. 2. Driving example: Amber Alert In order to illustrate the different features...describe here an example of its use for an Amber Alert system. Amber Alert is a system in the USA that is used...individual cellphone users may ‘opt in’ to receive Amber Alerts as SMS messages. Citizens with information...create a more dynamic and intelligent version of the Amber Alert system. The application combines spatial awareness
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Society on the 21st December last year, a paper on Amber was read, and reference was made to the various...gold-coloured kind, has a delusive resemblance to Amber, with which, though much softer, it has the common...up into ornamental articles in the same way as Amber, from a specimen which was finished by B turner...had but a scanty knowledge of the treatment of Amber. The interior of the Angola Copal pieces, when not...Angola and partly at Lisbon, came under my notice ; whilst in the Copal sent to Lisbon from the province
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Florence, indeed, depended on England, Spain, and Portugal for wools of fine quality, its own and other wools...indication of the prices of the woo's of Slain and Portugal in Florence. Besides manufacturing cloths from...probably from Pietro Pasqualigo, a Venetian envoy at Lisbon at the time of the return of the second Portuguese...the spices would be brought from the Indies to Lisbon, where Hungarians, Germans, Flemings, and French...the voyage by sea being exempt, it resulted that Portugal could give them at a much lower price." So said
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containing more than 5,000 archaic specimens in bronze, amber, stone, and clay; we have brought to light more.... -London Graphia. THE SUBMERGED CITY OF PORTUGAL. CETOBRIGA IN By NICOLAS PIKE. OF all the nl1tions...nl1tions of Europe, the small domain of Portugal, from the earliest ages of the world's history, attracted...south of Spain, as they passed along the coaHt of Portugal, so enterprising and com mercial.a na.tion as...treasures. All the early conquerors who settled in Portugal enriched the country with temples, triumphant
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Hugo Miguel Crespo is an art historian based in Lisbon, whose research focuses on Portuguese Renaissance...Jewels from the India Run at the Museu do Oriente in Lisbon, for which he wrote an extensive catalogue. Sven...ca. 1900; black and white photographic postcard. Lisbon, author’s collection 49 Finger-ring, Ceylon, ca...of Sylvestre Garcia do Amaral, a lapidary from Lisbon who claimed to have made this identification before...took their precautions: a Huguenot merchant in Lisbon received stones from Brazil in the late 1720s,
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alluvial gold workings at Adica on the coast, south of Lisbon (Campos 1957)- The Moors do not appear to have...Middle Ages the governments of both Spain and Portugal were mainly interested in mining for the amount...Seville to the east, to Caveira near Grandola in Portugal eleven miles from the Atlantic coast. The distribution...on view in the Ethnological Museum at Belem in Lisbon. The reference in the text to the Emperor Hadrian...of Murcia and Valencia and the southern part of Portugal, as far as the Tagus. In 218 b.c. Hannibal started
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measured.The vuN increasedwith annealhoney-yellowto amber, and readily apparentagainst the isotropic, nearly... Estud., Ensaio, Doc., Inuest. (Jltramar. Lisbon, Portugal. No. 1l2t 74 pp. R. S. (1972) Virginia metamict
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yesterday. Pearls and coral are animal products; amber and jet are vegetable in origin, and all other gems...countries of Northern Europe made use of lumps of amber and garnet pebbles, the advanced civilizations of...phires and emeralds. Even the poor had ornaments of amber, amethyst, and tinted glass. It is obvious that...seriously undertaken until thirty-one years later when Portugal dispatched Martin Alfonso de Souza to establish...were. In 1725 he sent a handful to a lapidary in Lisbon. After a few attempts in his workshop, the artisan
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and Places General Editor: GLYN DANIEL — AND PORTUGAL SPAIN THE PREHISTORY OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA...11-29-67 Ancient Peoples and Places SPAIN AND PORTUGAL ARCHBISHOP MinV HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY 5000 MITTY...Wales. Dr. Savory has re^ turned to Spain and Portugal several times, notably to take part in excavations...Peninsula. Ancient Peoples and Places SPAIN AND PORTUGAL THE PREHISTORY OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA H. N....of Roch shelter Art III 9 60 63 63 Spain and Portugal Tie Cave Culture c. Tie Neolithic Period 5000-2500
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Trenton, N. J. President. A. G. Mason, Lisbon, Ohio. Manager, Lisbon Factory of the R. Thomas & Sons Co....Mass., t o Pittsburgh, Pa., and is living a t 221 Amber St., E. E., Pittsburgh. F. S. Crumley, President...University, is employed by the R . Thomas & Sons Co., Lisbon, Ohio. Richard D. Hatton, formerly Vice-President
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Page R0<:khunllng Situ Treasures of Madeira and Portugal Page By D. S. Freir The Shining Mountain By Tom... Rockhunting Sites Treasures of Madeira and Portugal by D. S. Frei, TRAS OSMONTES PONTE DE BARCA ...\‱ ‱ MILFONTES MONCHIQUE MINAS SE DOMINGOS PORTUGAL The entire main island is of basalt, except the...that this is all that we personally found. In Portugal we had our car, with­ out which even a superficial...geological map, called-oddly enough -Carta Geologica de Portugal, issued by Direccao Geral de Minas et Servicos
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Ambassador to Portugal A spectacular exhibition of Portuguese and Brazilian jewelry has opened in Lisbon to mark...of escaping from Napoleon’s troops who invaded Portugal in late 1807. Along with the royal court, more...of the jewelry department at Ar.Co Art School in Lisbon, and Brazilian LĂșcia Abdenur, a senior jewelry...and aesthetic discourse between the cultures of Portugal and Brazil at that time. Many of these inspirational...JoĂŁo VI, the ïŹrst king of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarve. These jewels reïŹ‚ect the
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expense connected with two voyages in 1877-1878 to Portugal; and many weeks work there in both years, with...South America via the Straits of Magellaen, taking Lisbon in their way; and form an almost luxurious, at...representations. But here, in these observations in Portugal, what with the heat of the atmosphere, and the...confined most lamentably in that map, I take my own Lisbon solar spectrum with 2016 lines, and can state according...telluric admixture, as the observations were made at Lisbon, in June and July, and always near the middle of
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electrified Rio de Janeiro and when word arrived in Lisbon the effect was even greater. T he discovery came...another in their collections of precious stones. Lisbon was turned over to feasting when the news came...diamonds in Brazil. The word came quickl y from Lisbon tha t the a rea where diamonds had been discovered...from that moment the property of the Crown. So Portugal created the Diam:m tine D em arcation, about 125...single year 1146 ounce of diamonds were hipped to Lisbon. This glut ca used a fa ll in the price of diamonds
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Europe in 1515. It was a gift for King Manuel I of Lisbon, from the Gujarat Sultan Muzafar II and landed...menagerie. A letter of unknown authorship was sent from Lisbon to Nuremberg at around the same time, enclosing...certain, often specific, diseases (Blaen 2016). Amber, for example was believed to protect against various...Fossile. By kind permission of Museu da Farmácia, Lisbon. Downloaded from http://sp.lyellcollection.org/...burnt ivory, ?crab’s eyes, pearl, red coral, white amber and Maltese earth are pulverized together in a mortar
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VICARTE Research Unit, FCT NOVA, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal Independent Researcher, 18500 Granada, Spain;...Universidade de Lisboa, 2695-066 Bobadela LRS, Portugal; lcalves@ctn.tecnico.ulisboa.pt VICARTE Research...Research Unit, FCT NOVA, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; teresa.medici@gmail.com Correspondence: icoutinho@fct...production centres, with shades of smoky yellow or amber [1,2]. Most of these objects had mainly a decorative...combined in one object, for instance, green and amber tonalities. This colourful glass, usually blown
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(University of Lisbon, Portugal), Dr. Rui Galopim de Carvalho (Portugal Gemas Academy, Lisbon, Portugal), Enzo...except for some organic gems such as pearls or amber. However, certain properties of gems, such as their...(quartz, amethysts, agate, chalcedony, opal etc.), amber and pearls. The first gems which were used as found...rose cut diamonds (not tested by the authors). Portugal, early eighteenth century. (Photo by Carlos Pombo...Fundação EugĂ©nio de Almeida/Archidioceses of Évora, Portugal) Fig. 2.6 Different gem cut styles, on the left
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Loranthocitessuccineus Conwentz 1886, Tert Olig, Baltic Amber. Family s,rrn~c~.m~ First, Tert Eoc: Minsterocarpum...Olig: Oxalidites brachysepalus Caspary 1886, Baltic Amber. Extant. Family PALMAE First, Cret Coniac: Palmoxylon...First, Cret Alb: Cissites sinuosus Saporta 1894, Portugal. Extant. Family WINTERACEAE First, Tert Olig:...8, 289-436. 1894. Florefossile du Portugal, 288 pp., 39 pls. Lisbon. SCOTT, R. A. & BARCHOO~, E. 1957
 
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