Mine detail: Condado

Previously called 'Corrego Bom SucessoCondado Do Baixo FarmFazenda Do Condado and Serro Condado'

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Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America
Lat / long: -18.49753, -43.24895
dep_id: 10038306
mrds_id: M045636
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Palladium, Platinum
Trace mineral: Iridium, Rhodium, Osmium
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Placer
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Hematite, Magnetite, Martite, Monazite, Olivine, Palladium, Pyrite, Quartz, Rutile, Tourmaline, Xenotime, Zircon
Reporter: Balcom, Raymond H., Page, Norman J.
References:
  • Deposit:: LUMB, A.D., 1920, THE PLATINUM METALS: JOHN MURRAY, LONDON, P. 52
  • Deposit:: WOLLASTON, W.H., 1805, ON THE DISCOVERY OF PALLADIUM WITH OTHER SUBSTANCES FOUND WITH PLATINA: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, 95, 316.
  • Deposit:: HUSSAK, E., 1906, PD UND PT IN BRASILIEN: ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GEOLOGIE, SEPT. 1906, P. 289
  • Deposit:: GUIMARAES, D., 1965, P. 388; LEAO, J., MINES & MINERALS IN BRASIL.
  • Deposit:: WOLLASTON, W.H., 1809, ON PLATINA AND NATIVE PALLADIUM FROM BRAZIL: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, 99, 189-194.
  • Deposit:: QUIRING, 1962, DIE METALLISCHEN ROHSTOFFE: PLATINMETALLE 16 BAND. ENKE VERLAG, STUTTGART P.113.
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