Mine detail: Jacupiranga

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Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America
Lat / long: -24.7374, -48.049
dep_id: 10255352
mas_id: 3510430004
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Trace mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Surface
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Apatite, Magnetite, Mica, Olivine, Pyrochlore, Serpentine
Reporter: Unknown
Year first produced: 1943
disc_yr: 1940
References:
  • Deposit:: HARRINGTON,J.F., WARD,DE, ET AL, 1966, SOURCES OF FERTILIZER
  • Deposit:: IN SOUTH AMER.: A PRELIM. STUDY: USGS BULL 1240.
  • Deposit:: MCKELVEY, V.E., 1967, PHOSPHATE DEP.:USGS BULL 1252-D.
  • Deposit:: NOYES DEVEL. CORP., 1963, INTER. FERT. GUIDE.
  • Deposit:: THE BRITISH SUL. CORP., LTD.,1964, A WORLD SURV. AT PHOS. DE
  • Deposit:: ED., 206PP.
  • Deposit:: TUTTLE,O.F., AND GITTINS,J., CARBONATITES: INTERSCIENCE PUB.
  • Deposit:: WILEY & SONS, N.Y.PP.169-181
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