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Topaz from
Vela, Guarda, Guarda, Portugal


Locality type:Civil Parish
Classification
Species:Topaz
Formula:Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Topaz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vela, Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:926694
Long-form Identifier:1:3:926694:0
GUID (UUID V4):f16c1a09-bf62-42cd-b2a4-fbbc722ed5a8
Localities for Topaz in this Region
Covão quarry, Vela, Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
Vela Nordeste quarry, Vela, Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
Nearest other occurrences of Topaz
0.7km (0.5 miles) Vela Nordeste quarry, Vela, Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
2.0km (1.2 miles) Covão quarry, Vela, Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
2.2km (1.4 miles) Alvarrões Mine, Gonçalo, Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
48.6km (30.2 miles) Barroca Grande Mine, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal
50.3km (31.3 miles) Portugal Nos. 1 & 2 quarries, Malpartida e Vale de Coelha, Almeida, Guarda, Portugal
52.9km (32.9 miles) Lagares Mining Field, Vila Nova de Paiva, Viseu, Portugal
52.9km (32.9 miles) Rebentão Mine, Lagares do Estanho Mines, Queiriga, Vila Nova de Paiva, Viseu, Portugal
53.9km (33.5 miles) Castillejo de Dos Casas, Salamanca, Castile and Leon, Spain
73.7km (45.8 miles) Segura Mines (Segura mining field), União de Freg de Segura e Zebreira, Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco, Portugal
74.1km (46.0 miles) Cerro Queimado, União de Freg de Segura e Zebreira, Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco, Portugal
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
fail to show you the superb 2.4-cm bixbyite-on-topaz specimen from Maynard’s Claim, Thomas Range, Utah...Utah, for which Tom asks $950. Bixbyite on topaz, 2.4 cm, from Maynard’s claim, Thomas Range, Utah. Mineral...com) in order to display something very new from Portugal: elbaite in lepidolite matrix specimens newly...Alvarrões mine, Goncalo-Seixo, Amarelo-Vela, Guardia district, Portugal. No, these aren’t elbaite specimens...Alvarrões mine, Goncalo-Seixo, Amarelo-Vela, Guarda district, Portugal. Mch Minerals specimen and photo.
Journal (issue)
Libri Domon Ken di Patrizia Meli Fotografia di vela Skipper e fotografo di Angelo Florio Fotografia...fotografica... Ileana Castelfranchi Terni Apple guarda sempre in avanti e questa non è certo una novità...quintessenza. MOSTRE Extraordinary Visions. L’Italia ci guarda Al Museo Maxxi si raccontano i 70 anni della Repubblica...un porto, in questo caso essendoci molte barche a vela ormeggiate ho provato a riprendere i loro alberi...sognare, come spero che facciano sognare chi le guarda…” di Patrizia Meli 76 fotografare | agosto 2016
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical study of the Gonçalo Li-pegmatite deposit, Portugal……………………………………..23 FALSTER, A.U., SIMMONS, W.B...exploration in the Barroso-Alvão area, northern Portugal…………..72 MALCZEWSKI, D., DZIUROWICZ, M., KRZYKAWSKI...Alto da Misarela pegmatite (Barroso-Alvão field, Portugal): Petrography, mineralogy and relationship to...characteristic feature of these FI is the presence of topaz and sassoline as crystalline phases. This type of...Kuz’min, M.I., Antipin, V.S. & Petrov, L.L. 1971: Topaz-bearing keratophyre (ongonite), a new variety of
Journal (issue)
Rocka and Mineral• Aaaociation WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK...collectors bad never before found the pocket with its topaz and berderite. The f!inding nf excellent cleavelandite...in small vugs at some distance from the actual topaz pocket focused the writer's attention on this quarry...bluish green topaz fragments appeared, etched fragments of former crystals. The amount of the topaz taken when...rd Indefinitely. llore and larger fragments of topaz with many crystal fragments on matrix " ert> found
Journal (issue)
Rocka and Mineral• Aaaociation WHOLE No. 89 Topaz and Herderite at Topsham, Maine By BENJAMIN B. BURBANK...collectors bad never before found the pocket with its topaz and berderite. The f!inding nf excellent cleavelandite...in small vugs at some distance from the actual topaz pocket focused the writer's attention on this quarry...bluish green topaz fragments appeared, etched fragments of former crystals. The amount of the topaz taken when...rd Indefinitely. llore and larger fragments of topaz with many crystal fragments on matrix " ert> found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unsatisfactory in that such minerals as tourmaline, topaz, and apatite are assignedin abundanceto the intermediatevein...San Enrique, Mallachuma, Quimsa Cruz, and Santa Vela Cruz are groupedalongthe westand southborderof the...the sulphide ores, minerals such•as tourmaline,topaz, pyrrhotite, etc., are presentonly in very small...tourmalineneedles. Scatteredgrains of cassiteriteand topaz have alsobeenintroduced,probablyby the mineralization...numeroussmall cassiteritegrains and squaresectionsof topaz. The closing faciesof this mineralizingstageare
Book
the a. marina = 31 or 32 lb.); in Brazil and Portugal = 14.6872 k.; in Chile = 11.5032 k.; in Cuba =...shaft (Ponce de León). BUJIA, (1) wax candle, see u. vela (2) ; (2) candlestick in which (1) 1s put; (3) candle-power;...equivalent to 09 of the stearine candle (Penot), see vela (2). BULTO, com. package, parcel. BUNGO, Nicar...foreman, see capataz (3); (4) Mex. stump of a candle vela (2)] (Dwight); (5) c. de pisón, Ant. Col. wooden...ipe-jacaranda (H. K. Scott). CANDELA, (1) candle, see vela (2) ; (2) candlestick; (3) piedra de c., flint.
Book
MAP Tula Hill Fire Agate ............. Tepetate — Topaz ................. Zimapan District................gold. The rare minerals of the such as amethyst, topaz, and gold and Alistos area include annabergite,...Sphalerite Sphalerite, var. Marmatite Sulfur, Native Topaz Tourmaline Trcmolite Turgite Uralite Vanadinite...Pseudobrookitc. Quartz Quartz, var. Chalcedony Topaz Tridymite Zeolite group Zircon MAPIMI Mapinti in...Quartz, var. Hematite, var. Specularite Chalcedony Topaz Magnetite Tridymite Montmorillonite Zircon Oligoclase
Book (edition)
mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage. The collected...dolerite on Monte Redondo, 160 km N of Lisbon, Portugal. Columnar aggregates in ultrabasic rocks at Smrcina...Panasqucira, Alstonite BaCa[C01lz Ca~teloBranco, Portugal. With brown apatite in ser(5.A. alstonite-barytocalcite...W ore deposit at Panasqueira, Castelo Branco, Portugal, where it is accompanied by crystals of rock crystal...France, and in crystals to 5 cm at Gestoso, Aveiro, Portugal. In the middle- and low-temperature deposits as
Catalog/List
veal MEALS NSiteHott ube Aba tt porate ; wg AV Vela ie as SDA ib ashe leoBeathalslholbodwitsIe (ret...Lor or JEWELRY io |Comprising topaz and gilded necklace; two topaz brooches; beaded necklace. _ Together...diamonds. (Burleigh) 71. Topaz AND Peart Broocu In gold mount; the oval faceted topaz surrounded pearls. (Burleigh)...Gotp-Mowunrtep Scarr Pins K ) _- Nine scarf pins set with topaz, turquoise, baroque pearl, etc. [Lot.] (Propert...Gotp-MountTEp Topaz PENDANT ( Floral carved pendant of yellow gold mounted with pear-shaped topaz and ¢ gold
Catalog/List
Brithyne-Salt. Pristnatic Brithyne-Salt 1. 23. L. Vela Rubia, Spain. Imbedded 24. L. Loose do. do...modification best. specimen contains, also, quartz, topaz, The mica, and ox- ide of tin. 58. L. Cumberland...purple. 62. L. Erenfriedersfort. In cubes of a topaz yellow color, coated with minute crystals of quartz...Diamond. IV. Topaz. Prismatic Topaz. 1. imbedded ainute crystal. Genus Sp. Triv. Topaz. In distinct... Vermont. quartz. Yellow quartz, or Bohemian topaz. Var. Amethyst. 698. L. Langenlois, Lower Austria
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Absent Huge veLn RoskJng Vela .Abs€Dt Roadcut Roatlcut Abgent Outcrop Topaz Prospect AbseDt spec.
Book
of Crystals Phosphate group minerals Silicates Topaz Jade Jasper falls Ruby and sapphire Emerald Feldspars...the gem minerals corundum, diamond, beryl, and topaz, which is why they were used iB jewellery in ancient...orange-yellow colour Gold wine cup .c: Cl) studded with topaz and otherJewels Crystal has a natural pyramid shape...in rock deep underground Topaz crystals Teardrop cut 102 The word topaz comes from Sanskrit, an ancient...called topaz. The gem was used in an , ' .,_ gypt, Greece, and Rome. The earliest source of topaz was an
Journal (issue)
Perak Persia 134 Peru 134 Philippine Islands Portugal 135 135 136 144 145 145 Queensland Russia Santo...silver, tourmaline, The Railw. tin lead, topaz, and zinc fluorspar or iron and without ...Huaina-Potosi, Milluni, Araca, Quimsa Cruz, and Santa Vela Cruz PRIOR, G. T. fields. See No. 1636. Describes...kidney-shaped, or compact. The usual tourmaline, topaz, fluorite, apatite, etc., are almost entirely absent... more or less, at all the places. Fluorite and topaz are absent and no other fluorine-bearing minerals
Report (issue)
zone, pervasive (>90%) silica zone, magnetite and topaz zone, greisen zone, and the garnet zone (White et...1981). The presence of abundant fluorite and some topaz in addition to more intense K-feldspar alteration...Churchill County, Nevada: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Vela Uniform Project/Shoal ____1964, Final report, geological...Churchill County Nevada, for Shoal Event, Project Shade, Vela Uniform Program: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission....Energy Commission, Division of Technical Information, Vela Uniform Program, Project Shoal, Final Report, VUF-1001
Journal (issue)
Griffiths and McQuat Ltd. were contracted by A vela to sample and analyze for tantalum content the alluvial...that I wanted to purchase them. Some collectors topaz crystals that had been shown to me earlier in say...entire lot for me. I carefully asked the , several topaz crystals; but the most unusual thing price and the
Journal (issue)
reached the pass between the Quimsa Cruz and the Santa Vela Cruz, about 15,400 feet above sea level. T he road...date. Fig. 1. Phenacite on microcline (amazonite). Topaz Butte (old name for Crystal Butte), near Florissant...irradiation of the radioactive thorium- I Fig. 2. Topaz. A fine crystal, clear in color. Originally found...crystals weighing tens (perhaps hundreds) of pounds. Topaz, especially the blue; phenakite (usually not recog­...In the older literature, Crystal Peak was called Topaz Butte; locally, it was known as C heop’s Pyramid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
prospectuaforl'olume 7 _ concerD. llaek Namben alld Vela._ S. H., oCOhlo.-We do not discover any pat.nta­...Puller 212 8 Paving 238 Blanks, Scr.w 278, 2c. Topaz, Artificial 380 Fluids, Burning 22 P.destals 334
Journal (issue)
[lies] near the midpoint of the extended radio source Vela X [,] believed to be the result of a prehistoric...star-forming regions NGC 1333 in Perseus and RCW 38 in Vela, as well as of the Rho Ophiuchus cloud complex,...that special toes-in-the-sand moment with our Blue Topaz Dolphin Pendant? The beloved sea mammal has been...blue topaz. Nothing captures the shimmering color of the ocean in the midday sun like blue topaz. With...clear blue color and high refractive index, blue topaz is one of the top-selling blue gemstones. And with
Journal (issue)
blue topaz containing brownish yellow acicular inclusions. First described as 'rutilated' topaz, it was...Alteration of of Kammerling, Inclusions in 'Rutilated' Topaz. Gems & & Gemology, 25, 3, 165-7. & Koivula, J.I...I., ).1., 1987. The Rutilated Rutilated Topaz Misnomer. Gems & Gemology, 23, 2, 100-3. Koivula, J.I....used here is not further identified by Thunberg. Topaz: puresjeragen, purperagen, but the latter is given...in Thunberg's article as 'pusperagan'. "Genuine topaz". Cinnamon-stone: komedegam (both Malab. & Singhal);
Report (issue)
cassiteritf i»clud » quartz, sericite, touraaliae, topaz, fluorite, arsenopyrit* and pyrite. "jPQ - l '... 'and plac«0 of such minerarls aa tourmaline e topaz, danburlte0 axinite and scapolit«0 vith iff&«ous...rock minerals, ^iarts D fluorite, tourmaline, topaz, danburite, muscovite, zinnwaldit®, wolframite,...common associate of casslterite aad wolfram-it e, Topaz is common in the silicified portioat, of the dikes...yellov 8 soft, granular gossan. The Wolframite-Topaz lode is located on the ridge vest of Lost SiT«r
Book
was at the Shilton Pit. Some nice cassiterite and topaz came from here many years ago, but this pit is now...water line we found a pegmatite showing apatite and topaz, but no sign of the cassiterite. Gunheath Pit was...Collected cassiterite and wolframite, scorodite and topaz also some varlamoffite. They are moving a lot of...also a specimen with wolfram with it, and a single topaz specimen. Went next to Melbur Pit. Again, signed...Imperial section of the pit next and collected a few topaz specimens. Not much work being done here at the
Report (issue)
21 plates. Curtis, G.H. 1951 The geology of the Topaz Lake Quadrangle and the eastern half of the Ebbetts...Armin, R.A. 1981 Reconnaissance geologic map of the Topaz Lake 15 minute quadrangle, California and Nevada:...Dohrenwend, J.C. 1981 Reconnaissance geologic map of the Topaz Lake 15' quadrangle, California-Nevada: U.S. Geological...Energy Commision, Division of Technical Information, Vela Uniform Program, Project Shoal, Final Report VUF-1001...Quadrangles, and parts of the Markleeville and Topaz Lake Quadrangles, California-Nevada: U.S. Geological
Report (issue)
with ferbeTite and . rarely crystnls of boryl and. topaz. Masses . of black mica. forming part of tire pc-gmnt...ult to decide which a.re the finest. . Beryl and topaz hav e claims to this distinct-ion because of their...utilc.-Tingha. Titanic Iron.-Tingha, Sapphire. Topaz.-Tingha, Copeton. Tourmaline.-Copeton. Wood Tin...other minerals being covered with cr.-stals of topaz. Cr_,·stlb twinned on the Jap111�se law were found...possess a brilliancy little inferior to that of topaz. E11dom1J,.phs 111 Quartz Crystals. At Kinf!sgate
Book (edition)
chariat'imistic colour of white; ash-grey, of !,4'1,.‘. ; vela. ',..!!..''1, , or black ; Berlin-blue, of blue...into greenish-gre\ . Examples, beryl, aqua marine topaz, glasiy sirtynolite, common garnet, and hormtone...Saxon home-made wine. Examples, Saxon Brazilian topaz. .1. Crewe yellow or Isabella-yellow. It contains...that epidot is green, that beryl is green. or that topaz is yellow ; »m it mention every variety of colour...Examples, calcareous-spar, roel-' crystal, schorl and topaz. • !i. Pyramid has an indeterminate number of trian
 
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