 | | Book | | MINERAL RESOURCES OF PORTUGAL Text prepared by Luís Plácido Martins CONTENTS 5 7 11 19 20 21...MINING BACKGROUND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF MINING IN PORTUGAL PRECIOUS METALS Galicia - Trás-os-Montes Zone...Business in Portugal KEY REFERENCES 3 PREAMBLE A complex and diversified geology endows Portugal with a...ornamental stones and some other mineral substances. Portugal is presently one of the main UE producers of copper...sulphide deposits like Neves-Corvo and Aljustrel, in Portugal, Rio Tinto, Sotiel, Los Frailes, Las Cruces, etc |  | | Catalog/List | | 01884 821724 e mail ian@crystalclassics.co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky...calcite £15 7. MALACHITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Musonoie Mine, Zaire. Crystalline mass of fibrous dark to pale...5cm. £55 11. AZURITE (3.5cm x 1.5cm x 1cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Dark inky blue azurite crystal |  | | Catalog/List | | overall. £45. 3. BARITE and MALACHITE. Shinkolobwe Mine, Shaba, Congo. A matrix partly covered in green...tr,,nspa:-ent bui:te xls of Roma,i sword :;h2ir-,e:. About 15 barite xls to 18mm. 65x30x30mm. £32. (a)...CALCITE and DOLOMITE. 12 Level Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A small intergrown group of...to 4mm. 45x35x18mm. £9. 6. CALCITE (Co). Kolwezi Mine, Shaba, Congo. A 40x20mm area on matrix showing...pinkish/red colour. 50x30x25mm. £15. 7. CARROLITE. Kamoya Mine, Congo. A calcite matrix showing five lustrous silver |  | | Catalog/List | | grey mass with Actinolite, large 2x3 inch ..Bastnas Mine Sweden £30 12. SCAPOLITE completely clear single...small quartz crystals, possibly some with faces. lxl Mine, Washoe County Nevada USA £30 Olinghouse ......on lxl inch matrix Arizona USA £18 · Inspiration mine, Gila County, 21. HAMBERGITE chalky-white crystalline...tabular twinned crystal about 1cm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £25 . 1'fa Be PO4...PO4 . 25. TITANITE variety "Greenovite" (Praborna Mine, St Marcel, Aosta Italy) pink vein about 3mm wide |  | | Journal (issue) | | Edinburgh , U. K. I.R. Plimer, Parkvill.:. Australia R .E. Starkey, Brom,grove, U.K R.F. Symes. London , U.K...Cumbria B. Young, E. Hyslop and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral...hypogene copper lodes. INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall |  | | Catalog/List | | cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland...France lx2 £I.SO 2x2 £3 2x3 £5 3x4 £8 236 ~DESIJ'\E _Feldspar ____ ... . . __ richly distributed in Porp~--...- - · - --·· -·Pure grey metallic mass San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bolivia 6x6mm £3 217 A1'DORITE . PbAgSb_S |  | | Catalog/List | | BYWAYS I ■ COBHAM E N G L AN D MINERALS T AY L E R C L 0 S E 2 0 BURSTEAD P h one S UR R E Y 0 1 K T 1 1...1 ' 2 N L C a t a 1 o 9 u e N o 76 Cobham 862340 1998 THIS 13 A. HAIL ORDER CATALOGUE BUT ANYONE...pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE |  | | Catalog/List | | minerals , Arsenopyrite Ghana, Ilmenite South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond..._ _ __ ___ _____ _ _ _ _ 21 7 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bol ivia 6x6mm £3 Pure grey metallic mass...Andesite _ .• __ _ ____ . __ lx2£2. 50 2x2 Holmbush Mine, Kelly Bray . 32 APATITE Variety Francol i te.rich...·va"i-i�ty-FRA- NCOLJTE r i ch whik �llular Holmbush Mine Cornwall £2.40 __ CaP0/4 C0/3 F __ _____ __ mass |  | | Catalog/List | | lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal 95 10 77 ■ ALLOPHANE Greenish...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...lxl£2 2x3£6 3x4£8 feldspar ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 5...2x3£15 Gamet ½" £3 ALTHAUSITE ANDRADITE Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales Modum, Buskerud,Norway 975 44 Brown-purple |  | | Book | | France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...Tungsten Mine, at Plympton, Devon, followed by an attempt to rework the famous Tsumeb Mine in Namibia...inform me that a new mineral species from the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia was to be named after me. This came as...sold off most of my mineral collection, pictures, mine plans, memorabilia etc. We spent the next few years |  | | Book (volume) | | Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part...Yugoslavia; and Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter...Lorraine and Luxembourg) and Aquitaine Basin (zone E) Iron. Sulphur Gypsum and anhydrite . Phosphate Siderolithique...Siderolithique (iron, uranium) Summary of zone E Alsace, Bresse and Oligocene grabens (zone F) . Potassium...Elisa and Dorinda Barruecopardo Golpejas or Bellita mine Morille-Martinamor El Cubito El Trasqui16n. Santa |  | | Book | | Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...with smaller crystals of scapolite (Garmo, 2000). PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous |  | | Book (edition) | | est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43. 150 00 Pr.tha5. CzechRepublic e-mail:...trammittcd, or otherwise copied for public or private U<,e. without written penni,,ion of the publi,her. ISBN...composition (e.g. fluorite). to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine), to an organization (e.g .. mgriite)...tinaring in English, German, and other Gennanic lan2'Ua2:e s. French. and other Larin Ianguages. and in the-...(1996). Thanks to the kind permission of Dr. E. Nagele from the E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
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