| Location: | Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America |
| Lat / long: | -20.89387, -46.67928 |
| dep_id: | 10056416 |
| mrds_id: | TC00088 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper, Nickel |
| Minor mineral: | Sulfur, PGE, Gold, Cobalt |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Prospect |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Gold, Marcasite, Niccolite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite, Silver, Sperrylite, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Hematite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Serpentine, Tremolite |
| orebody_fm: | TABULAR |
| model: | 11: Komatiitic Ni-Cu |
| Reporter: | Bolm, Karen S., Page, Norman J. |
| hrock_unit: | Moro Do Niquel Unit |
| hrock_type: | Serpentinite,Komatiite (Ultramafite) |
| arock_type: | Granite |
| Structure: | The Ore Body Is Located In The Basal Portion Of An Archean Greenstone Belt Sequence., Assymetric Isoclinal F2 Syncline Plunging 45-30w |
| tectonic: | Morro Do Ferro Greenstone Belt Of Archean Paramirim Craton |
| disc_yr: | 1983 |
| discr: | B.P. Mineracao Ltd. |
| References: |
- Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1988, THIS MONTH IN MINING, CORRECTION: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, V. 189, P. 17.
- Deposit:: AMERICAN CONSULATE, RIO DE JANEIRO
- Deposit:: BRENNER, T.L., TEIXEIRA, N.A., OLIVEIRA, S.A.L., FRANKE, N.D., AND THOMPSON, J.F.H., 1990, THE *OOLE NICKEL DEPOSIT, MORRO DO FERRO GREENSTONE BELT, BRASIL: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 85, NO. 5, P. 904-920.
- Deposit:: MARCHETTO, C.M.L., 1990, PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS IN THE *OOLE (NI-CU-CO) DEPOSIT BRAZIL: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 85, NO. 5, P. 921-927.
- Production:: E&MJ, 1988.
- Reserve-Resource:: AMERICAN CONSUL, RIO DE JANEIRO; BRENNER AND OTHERS (1990)
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