Mine detail: Borges

Previously called 'Japanese Sao Roque'

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Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America
Lat / long: -20.69579, -41.93891
dep_id: 10065548
mrds_id: TC40895
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Mica
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Muscovite
gangue: Biotite, Garnet, Kaolin, Microcline, Plagioclase, Quartz
orebody_fm: TABULAR
Reporter: Page, Norman J.
hrock_type: Pegmatite
arock_type: Gneiss
disc_yr: 1918
discr: Antonio Borges Pereira
References:
  • Deposit:: PECORA, W.T., KLEPPER, M.R., LARRABEE, D.M., BARBOSA, A.L.M., AND FRAYHA, RESK, 1950, MICA DEPOSITS IN MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 964-C, P. 205-305.
  • Deposit:: KLEPPER, M.R., AND LARRABEE, D.M., 1944, BORGES (JAPANESE, SAO ROQUE) MICA MINAS ESPERA FELIZ-CAIRIA DISTRICT, MUNICIPIO OF ESPERA FELIZ, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED REPORT, 15 P.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
  • Production:: KLEPPER AND LARRABEE (1944); PECORA ET AL (1950).
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