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Limonite from
Marble quarries, Borba, Évora, Portugal


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarries, Borba, Évora, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:777518
Long-form Identifier:1:3:777518:5
GUID (UUID V4):1b8b25e9-ff78-463b-b77c-a7b04ee2dbd0
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
5.1km (3.2 miles) Almagreira Mine, Pardais, Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal
5.3km (3.3 miles) Monte de São Gregório Mine, Rio de Moinhos, Borba, Évora, Portugal
5.5km (3.4 miles) Miguel Vacas Mine, Nossa Senhora da Conceição e São Bartolomeu, Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal
12.9km (8.0 miles) Cruz dos Meninos quarry, Estremoz, Estremoz, Évora, Portugal
13.8km (8.6 miles) Courela de Santo António quarry, Estremoz, Estremoz, Évora, Portugal
42.6km (26.5 miles) Balouco Mine, Assunção, Arronches, Portalegre, Portugal
55.9km (34.8 miles) Feijoas prospect, Torre de Coelheiros, Évora, Évora, Portugal
65.1km (40.4 miles) Terra das Freiras quarry, Santiago do Escoural, Montemor-o-Novo, Évora, Portugal
67.1km (41.7 miles) Herdade do Castelo Mine, Santiago do Escoural, Montemor-o-Novo, Évora, Portugal
67.8km (42.1 miles) Serra dos Monges No. 2 Mine, Santiago do Escoural, Montemor-o-Novo, Évora, Portugal
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyromorohite prisms. The latter incrusted a few limonite-stained quartz crystals in one of the numerous...Silver Spring, Md. "In one of the goethite and limonite concretions which I have found on Wheeler Road... "In the walls of some of the concretions and limonite-goethite géodes are other bits of wood fossil...sphalerite. Other minerals found in the géodes were limonite, clay, agate and chalcedony. The ones with agate...from the Hawthorne Formation near quartz geode. Limonite: Earthy, brown mass in quartz Floral City, Citrus
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz J have yet seen." CALIFORNIA—The limestone quarries in Crestmore Riverside Co., Calif., considered...area, we have closed the Commercial and Lonestar quarries to collectors. W e feel that with blasting and...to California and if you would like to see our quarries, of course I would be glad to show you around...We have nothing suitable for cutting, and our quarries, at least for the time being, are officially closed...Co., Fla.) : Limonite: Dark brown cellular mass encrusted by earthy, yellowish limonite From the Bone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
trip with Mr. Boyle to Blue Hill and Brinton's quarries. W. H. Fr,acr, Secretary PHILADELPHIA MINERALOGICA]...Connecticut, quarries near Portland and Middletown, Connecticut, the limestone quarries near Canaan,...Massachusetts, trap quarries, the Cumington, Massachusetts rhodonite mine, the marble quarries at Rutland, Vermont...Vermont, the granite quarries at Barre, Vermont, the iron mines at Mineville, the garnet mine on Mt....weighed just over 238] grams. It is coated with limonite and shows no definite crust. It is a black chondrite
Report (issue)
include granite and metamorphic rocks, black granite, marble, and sandstone, together with a variety of minor...published and unpublished data on dimension stone quarries, prospects, and historical sites in the southern......................................5 Historic quarries.................................................................................91 Chapter 4 Marble Central western region .........................................................99 vi Other marble deposits in the Cheela–Wyloo area ............
Report (issue)
(Tatlock) quarry................................ Omega Marble Tile and Terrazzo quarr y.. . . . . . . . . . ........••...•...••........••......•..•.• Kaladar marble quarry ••.•••....•.........•..............• Roblindale........•..••....•..••.............••...... Tweed marble quarry . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . . .... . . . . . . .........•.. Hazzards Corner marble quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . Pinewood Park Lake Road quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . • . Henderson
Report (issue)
Caldwell Mine Angelstone (Tatlock) quarry Omega Marble Tile and Terrazzo quarry Bathurst Quarry Foster...Star gold Mine Kaladar marble quarry Roblindale quarry Actinolite Mine Tweed marble quarry Tweed limestone...(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
Journal (issue)
mixture of corundum , margarite , iron spinels , limonite -NEWS ON MINERALS -8- … Vol. 24 (No 143)...PARGASITE CRYSTALS ON WHITE MARBLE FROM VIETNAM 1. Sizeable red spinel crystals on marble from Luc Yen, Yen Bai...wonderful specimen. Rare pargasite crystals on marble from Luc Yen, Yen Bai Province, Vietnam , 1836...1836 grams , 17X18X5 cms 3. Top red spinel on marble specimen from Luc Yen, Yen Bai Province, Vietnam , 647...layer-like structures in metamorphic Quartzite; - Limonite xx , Planitis Island, Panormos Bay, Tinos Island
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(gypsum). The specimen comes from the gypsum quarries at Alabaster, Iosco Co., Mich. MINNESOTA—Manicato...MINNESOTA—Manicato, Blue Earth Co., Minn., is noted for its marble quarries. Most of the stone is medium-grained, buff...material has come from the quarry of the Royal Green Marble Co., northeast of Phillipsburg (Warren Co.), N...TENNESSEE—Dark brown masses of limonite. some showing tiny dark brown cubes (limonite pseudo after pyrite cubes)...Greene Co., Tenn. Quartz xls, limestone, and this limonite all crop out in a large slate hill."—on label
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
looking for the Allyndale Quarries, which we easily located. On our way to the Quarries, we stopped at the old...plenty of the bladed Tremolite in limestone. At the Quarries, which were almost a mile back from the main road...20th:Took the Juniors and the Midgets to the Allyndale Quarries, their first visit to a real quarry and felt well...drove to Lee, Mass., to visit the famous Lee Marble Quarries, which we found interesting but not prolific...the necessity of care in clambering around old Quarries and digging. Again a beautiful sunset ended our
Report (volume)
IV CONTENTS. Page. Structure exposed at the quarries.......................................... West............... Interbedding of twinned calcite (marble) with granular dolomite.... Interbedding of twinned.................... Westward change from calcite marble to granular limestone in beds of the same formation....................... Dolomite and calcite marble quarries...................................... Lee ...limestone from Becraft Mountain, Hudson, N. Y. Marble texture ......................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which was 15" long), pyrite xls up to 2", good limonite pseudos, massive anglesite rich in silver, showy...specimen from the locality, a white xline limestone. Marble — Natural Bridge, North Adams, Berkshire Co., Mass...Marquette Co., Mich. MINNESOTA—Dark, brown cubes of limonite (after pyrite) occur in slates on Ely Island,...and it was made up of quartz grains cemented by limonite. A number of sil134 very muscovite flakes were...has become cemented and cannot truly be called limonite or hematite. He was taken to the site by Dr. R
Report (volume)
geologists............................................. Marble in general............................................................. Limestone and marble................................................. Page. 9...9 10 11 11 Definitions of marble.................................................. Chemical composition...Origin of limestone and marble.......................................... Calcite marble......................Dolomite marble....................................................... Relation of calcite marble to dolomite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sphalerite, pyrite, quartz, snzithsonite, greenockite, limonite, dolomite, and galena. . 1946. Minerals of the...association of millerite and fluorite in limestone quarries of the St. Louis, Missouri area. Rocks & Minerals...Tri-State leadzinc area as well as at the Carthage marble quarries. Wagner, R. E. 1970. Galena-Missouri’s state
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Owing to the demand for building mnaterials many quarries have been opened, but few of any great extent...34th Street, and a large quarry, or a series of quarries afterwards merged into otne, was opened on the...sometimes large and chiefly of orthoclase. The largest quarries of this are at Frankford. Here the minerals were... unctuous clays carrying much limonite. In the limestone many quarries have been opened, some of them...a bed of the limestone has been converted into marble. The explorations for iron ore have been more
Book (volume)
Co. met with graphite, coating the granite at " Marble Hill," opposite Kaston and one mile north of Phillipsburg...remarkably fine stalactical masses of pyrite, from a limonite mine near Shimersville, Lehigh Co. It occurs with...Paxon'sfarm, near Feasterville, Bucks Co. At Breinig's limonite mine, near Breinigsville, Lehigh Co. At Cornog's...imbedded in " bastard marble. At VVhiteland station, Chester Co., with "bastard " marble. I have noticed considerable...near Birmingham. In York Co. pyrite coated with limonite, two miles from York city. Dr. Valentine, of
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF MINES BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART III MARBLE By D. F. HEWITT INDUSTRIAL MINERAL REPORT NO...parts: Part T II III IV V Introduction Limestone Marble Sandstone Granite Industrial Mineral Report No...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(also called Newlands Quarry or Benders Quarry) at Marble Hill, Ida Bay, on the east coast of Tasmania (Figure...the emplacement of pyrite (often weathered to limonite) and dolomite. Structure B, located adjacent to...(Bakalowicz et al. 1987). PYRITE AND LIMONITE Pyrite, and limonite that is commonly pseudomorphic after...the coarse crystalline calcite. The pyrite and limonite occur with two types of textural relationships:...veins, or replace matrix and cement. Pyrite, and limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, distributed parallel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
out and combined with oxygen and water to form limonite — which in this case is a hardened iron clay....while on a prospecting trip and tour of the marble quarries in this area. W e have no way of knowing what
Report (issue)
....................... ............. 4 Murphy marble................................................................................ ............. 9 Marble phase (F4)........................................................... ............. 3 3. Murphy marble core log.........................................Peachtree, North Carolina INTRODUCTION The Murphy Marble belt is a sinuous, northeast-trending structure...one-half minute quadrangles – the Murphy, Peachtree, Marble, Andrews, and Hayesville quadrangles, all in North
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
referred to as "the Pittsburgh of the East." Some quarries of historic note have been omitted because they...w h i c h came the marble for the Connecticut State Capitol; the sandstone quarries of Portland, w h i...­ stone Point, Waterford, and resulted i n two quarries. A t one time, the granite was used for the construction...Navy as an underwater sound laboratory, and both quarries now house the Millstone Point Nuclear Power Plants...metal mining in Connecti­ cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone, sand and gravel, gran­ ite, and crushed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
schist. The specimen was collected in the marble quarries at Sylacauga, Talladega, Co., Ala. COLORADO—"After...greenish tinge occurs in a pegmatite in the limestone quarries at Crestmore, Riverside Co., Calif. 462 "The...crystals of quartz. These geodes ranged in size from a marble up to 8 or 10 inches in diameter. As these were...some attractive specimens of limonite pseudomorph after barite, also limonite pseudomorph after marcasite...active collector and have access to five different quarries, from time to time, I will endeavor to fill you
Report (issue)
these same problems are equally common to stone quarries. The hard bedrock required for stone quarrying...miners extracted weathered iron ore~rom deposits of limonite derived from the weathering of an iron-rich gabbro... (Sharf, et al., 1888). These early mines extracted limonite "bogiron" ore which is similar to the composition...deposits. However, this material was derived from limonite beds which developed in stagnant water bogs near...a critical component in construction. The marble quarries were also exploited to produce ground agricultural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONNECTICUT — "The Hal e and Andrews feldspar quarries near Portland, Conn., are now closed to collectors...J., reports on a recent trip to some feldspar quarries in New Hampshire. "At Acworth (Sullivan Co.),...St., Franklin (Sussex "We visited the pipestone quarries at Co.), N. J., has sent us some interesting Pipestone...VERMONT — A milk-white slab, of white statuary marble, (one face polished) has been sent us by the Pocono...locality for this fine 486 specimen is the marble quarries at West Rutland, Rutland Co., Vt. VIRGINIA—I
Book
The lasgest pothsle is about 12 meters across. Marble with. Silicate, (76(42 16'18",73 02'28tf)318,65}--Prospect...65}--Prospect pit--Medium- to coarsedgrained calcite marble (Coles Brook limestone) with acoessory plagioclase...aukeritic calcite and pyrrhotite. Altered Limestone Marble (76(10calities uncertain--eonsult reference 3l8)65...titan te i8 r.lative~1 large SJl.sunts. Grgit. Quarries (76(42 15'58",73000'43tt)~ 2 16'11",73 01'U tt...33'23",13 11'2a")topogra8h c .ap, 114). schistose Marble and Graphite '!'ciss CJl (42 36 110",73 12 00"
 
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