 | | Journal (issue) | | Number Two Articles Cuprian elbaite from the Batalha mine, Paraíba, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...by W. E. Wilson Stibnite from the Wuling antimony mine, Jianxi province, China . . . . . . . . . . . ....and corrosion surfaces, from the Medra mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Keith Proctor collection; Jeff Scovil...info@trafford-flynn.com UK Mining Ventures Fluorite—Rogerley mine, Weardale, UK www.ukminingventures.com e-mail: Jef520@aol...March–April, 2002 Cuprian Elbaite from the Batalha Mine, Paraíba, Brazil Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEATURE ARTICLES 260 An Update on “Paraíba” Tourmaline from Brazil James E. Shigley, Brian C. Cook, Brendan...elbaites are expanding at the original deposit in Paraíba State, and similar tourmalines are also being mined...on amethyst, citrine, and ametrine from the Anahí mine, Bolivia • “Copal” resin from Madagascar • Iolite...corundum from Wyoming • Green kyanite from Bahia, Brazil • “Ruby Rock” cabochons • Tourmaline from Warner...More recently, Brendan has visited Madagascar and Brazil to obtain first-hand knowledge of important gem |  | Beurlen, H., de Moura, O. J. M., Soares, D. R., Da Silva, M. R. R., Rhede, D. (2011) Geochemical and geological controls on the genesis of gem-quality "Paraiba Tourmaline" in granitic pegmatites from northeastern Brazil. The Canadian Mineralogist, 49 (1) 277-300 doi:10.3749/canmin.49.1.277 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OF GEM-QUALITY “PARAÍBA TOURMALINE” IN GRANITIC PEGMATITES FROM NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL Hartmut BEURLEN§...Hélio Ramos s.n., 50740–530, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil Odúlio J.M. de MOURA H&R Exportação e Importação...Valadares, MG, Brazil Dwight R. SOARES Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba (IFPB)...Lemos 671, 58100–000, Campina Grande – Paraíba, Brazil Marcelo R.R. DA SILVA Departamento de Geologia, Universidade...Hélio Ramos s.n., 50740–530, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil Dieter RHEDE GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2013 Let’s Get it Right Paraíba Tourmaline, or Not? I n the gem world Paraíba tourmaline is a hot topic... and green tourmaline (elbaite) in the northeastern state of Paraíba, Brazil. The locality is precisely...precisely given as Mina da Batalha, near São José da Batalha (Fritsch et al. 1990). At the time this was very...dos Quintos mines (Karfunkel and Wegner 1996)— so Brazil has been producing small amounts of this material...Norte was marketed as “Paraíba” tourmaline although it did not come from Paraíba. No one seemed to mind |  | | Journal (issue) | | Paraiba Tourmaline Revisited Paraiba Tourmaline from Brazil – The Neon-Blue Burn Mozambique Paraiba Tourmaline...& Jewelry Industry President Clement Sabbagh, Brazil Vice Presidents Damien Cody, Australia Nirmal Kumar...Kumar Bardiya, India Treasurer Marcelo Ribeiro, Brazil Secretaries Bruce Bridges, USA Santpal Sinchawla...offering courses in gem trading and educational mine tours that are open to everyone. Consumers are becoming...which includes two washplants, security set-up, mine camps and other related infrastructure. The company |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | blue-to-green, copper-bearing tourmaline, the Paraíba-type, is one of the highest-priced colored gemstones...magmatic, pegmatitic environments are most commonly elbaite and fl uorliddicoatite species, and the rarer gem...dravite–uvite species. KEYWORDS : tourmaline, gemstone, Paraíba-type, chromophores, gem deposits TOURMALINE AS... 333 O C TOBER 2011 Specimen of polychrome elbaite crystals (28 cm tall), characteristic of gem tourmaline...tourmaline found in Pederneira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. SPECIMEN FROM DANIEL TRINCHILLO ; PHOTO BY J AMES |  | Soares, D. R., Beurlen, H., Barreto, S. d. B., Da Silva, M. R. R., Ferreira, A. C. M. (2008) COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION OF TOURMALINE-GROUP MINERALS IN THE BORBOREMA PEGMATITE PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL. The Canadian Mineralogist, 46 (5) 1097-1116 doi:10.3749/canmin.46.5.1097 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE BORBOREMA PEGMATITE PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL Dwight Rodrigues SOARES§ Centro Federal de Educação... 671, 58100-000, Campina Grande, State of Paraíba, Brazil Hartmut BEURLEN Programa de Pós-Graduação...State of Pernambuco, Brazil Sandra de Brito BARRETO and Marcelo Reis Rodrigues DA SILVA Departamento de...Ramos s.n., 54740-530, Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil Ana Claudia Mousinho FERREIRA Centro Federal de... 671, 58100-000, Campina Grande, State of Paraíba, Brazil Abstract Various species of the tourmaline-group |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and spessartine. Historic localities are found in Brazil, Madagascar, Russia, and the United States, but...(Simmons 2007). Historically, pegmatite deposits in Brazil, Madagascar, Russia, and the United States have...Acadêmico Hélio Ramos, 54740-530, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil E-mail: beurlen@ufpe.br E LEMENTS , V OL . 8,...morganite beryl (Brazil, 100.99 ct, 35.96 × 25.69 mm), blue topaz (Zimbabwe, 25.67 ct), green elbaite tourmaline...ct), red-violet elbaite tourmaline (Brazil, 16.87 ct), blue aquamarine beryl (Brazil, 17.96 ct), orange |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cu and Mn in a greenish blue elbaite from Alto dos Quntos mine, Brazil Kazumasa SUGIYAMA*, Hiroshi ARIMA*...of Cu and Mn in a greenish–blue elbaite from Alto dos Quintos, Brazil, was studied by using X–ray absorption...Greenish–blue elbaite, Tourmaline, XAFS, Single crystal X–ray diffraction INTRODUCTION Elbaite, Na(Li1.5...been extensively discussed, after a new find of elbaite with unique green and blue color was made in 1988...1988 from the state of Paraiba, northeastern Brazil (Koivula and Kammerling, 1989a, 1989b; Fritsch et |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Abstract: Copper- and Mn-bearing elbaitic tourmaline (“Paraíba tourmaline”) sometimes contains significant amounts...Mulungu mine, Brazil; (3) Cu- and Bi-bearing tourmalines from the Alto dos Quintos mine, Brazil. Two correlations...have any stable arrangement in Cu-bearing fluor-elbaite. The occurrence of Pb4+ at the Y site could be...content. Further plots of such correlations in “Paraíba tourmaline” samples might also help to distinguish...tourmalines, which were found in granitic pegmatites in Brazil and Mozambique. The first crystal structure of |  | | Journal (issue) | | SPRING 2006 SPRING 2006 PAGES 1–94 “Paraíba” Tourmaline from Brazil, Nigeria, and Mozambique Lead Glass–Filled..._____________ 4 Carat Points “Paraíba”-type Copper-bearing Tourmaline from Brazil, Nigeria, and Mozambique:...chemical compositions of bright blue-to-green “Paraíba”type tourmaline from the three known sources. ...Myanmar • Gem-quality massive pink muscovite from Brazil • Pyrope-spessartine from Tanzania • Transparent...1980s, copper-bearing “electric” blue elbaite from Paraíba State, Brazil, has been one of the most sought-after |  | Ertl, Andreas, Giester, Gerald, Schüssler, Ulrich, Brätz, Helene, Okrusch, Martin, Tillmanns, Ekkehart, Bank, Hermann (2013) Cu- and Mn-bearing tourmalines from Brazil and Mozambique: crystal structures, chemistry and correlations. Mineralogy and Petrology, 107 (2) 265-279 doi:10.1007/s00710-012-0234-6 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ORIGINAL PAPER Cu- and Mn-bearing tourmalines from Brazil and Mozambique: crystal structures, chemistry and...com Abstract Cu- and Mn-bearing tourmalines from Brazil and Mozambique were characterised chemically (EMPA...structure of Cu-bearing tourmalines from Paraiba, Brazil, was described for the first time by A. Ertl...30 wt% Mn2O3, respectively. Another Cu-bearing elbaite (with 0.94 wt% CuO and 0.40 wt% Mn2O3) from the...tourmaline samples (from Nepal, Zambia and the San Diego Mine, California, USA). These samples contained up to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Origin of color in cuprian elbaite from Sflo Jos6 de Batalha, Paraiba, Brazil Gnoncn R. Rosslvr,tN Division...90404-4088, U.S.A. Ansrn-q.cr Gem-quality elbaite from Paraiba, Brazil, containing up to 1.4 wt0i6Cu has been...increasingabsorptions from Mn3*. IwrnooucrtoN The color of elbaite has hen extensively investigated. Most colors are...and uvite (Schmetzerand Bank, 1979) but never in elbaite. Several investigators briefly mentioned Cu2+as...relate it to color. A new find of gem-quality elbaite with unusually saturated shadesof greenand blue |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Trace-element Composition of Paraíba-type Tourmaline from Brazil, Mozambique and Nigeria By Martin...cushion and ~5 ct stone in ring) and from Paraíba, Brazil (3.5 mm gems in bracelet and 4.02 ct oval)...on Petra Diamonds by Jim Davidson, (3) the Karowe mine by John Armstrong of Lucara Diamond Corp., (4) the...Leonardo Silva Souto (Gems in Gems, Teófilo Otoni, Brazil) had approximately 50 cabochons weighing up to...Hardy P., 2013. Blue sapphires from the Baw Mar mine in Mogok. Gems & Gemology, 49(4), 223–232, http://dx |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rare-element pegmatites in the Borborema Province of Brazil Robert B. Trumbull a,⁎, Hartmut Beurlen b, Michael...Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba (IFPB), R. Tranquilino...Coelho Lemos 671, 58100-000 Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Mezger Keywords: SIMS B-isotopes Elbaite Rare-element pegmatites Paraíba tourmaline a b s t r a c t Tourmaline...pegmatite in the Borborema Pegmatite Province of NE Brazil, and also from a leucogranite considered to be |  | Ludwig, T., Marschall, H. R., Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. E., Shabaga, B. M., Fayek, M., Hawthorne, F. C. (2011) A secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) re-evaluation of B and Li isotopic compositions of Cu-bearing elbaite from three global localities. Mineralogical Magazine, 75 (4) 2485-2494 doi:10.1180/minmag.2011.075.4.2485 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of B and Li isotopic compositions of Cu-bearing elbaite from three global localities T. LUDWIG1,*, H. R...13 June 2011] ABSTR ACT Cu-bearing elbaite from Paraı́ba (Brazil) is a highly-prized gem tourmaline....present Li and B isotope analyses of Cu-bearing elbaite from all three localities and demonstrate the suitability...LA-ICP-MS Introduction TOURMALINE close to the elbaite endmember composition typically occurs in pegmatite...expensive varieties of elbaite were discovered in the late 1980s in the Batalha pegmatite mine of the Borborema |  | | Book | | until he managed to reach the land of his dreams, Brazil. A specialist in the field of geology and mineralogy...crystals and the remarkable mineral treasures of Brazil, as well as the incredible adventures and difficulties...UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 1 Delev Ilia Deleff...UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL SOFIA–MOSCOW 2004 3 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black...NATIONAL MUSEUM IN SOFIA 66 OTHER COLLECTIONS OF MINE IN BULGARIA 71 COLLECTIONS IN OTHER CITIES AROUND |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the color. In 1988, a new fi nd of gem-quality elbaite with unusually saturated shades of green and blue...blue was made in the Brazilian state of Paraíba. The unusual blue color comes from the copper content...approaching those of the tourmaline gems from Paraíba. The question was raised about the possibility...compositions of tourmalines from Mozambique and Brazil (Krzemnicki 2007). Corundum For many years, rubies...spessartine and a faceted gem from the Little Three mine near Ramona, San Diego County, California. The orange |  | Vereshchagin, O. S., Rozhdestvenskaya, I. V., Frank-Kamenetskaya, O. V., Zolotarev, A. A., Mashkovtsev, R. I. (2013) Crystal chemistry of Cu-bearing tourmalines. American Mineralogist, 98 (8) 1610-1616 doi:10.2138/am.2013.4408 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | synthetic Cu-bearing olenite. Keywords: Cu-rich elbaite, Cu-bearing olenite, Paraiba, crystal chemistry...were found in 1980s in the Batalha occurrence, state of Paraíba, northern Brazil (Koivula and Kammerling...Rossing (Haughton et al. 1969); Nigeria: the Edeko mine near Ilorin in the state of Ojo (Zang et al. 2001);... the composition of the seed is close to pure elbaite), placed between the silica source (above) and...the State of Paraiba, Brazil. The Paraíba tourmalines occur in northeastern Brazil in four deposits of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Copper-bearing Tourmalines from New Deposits in Paraíba State, Brazil Masashi Furuya pg. 240 240 Natural Type...ruby 252 Gem News International Large diamond mine to be developed in Saskatchewan, Canada • Spurious...axinite from Pakistan • Multicolored fluorite from Brazil • Cr/V-bearing kyanite from Madagascar and elsewhere...possible diamond inclusion in quartz from Diamantina, Brazil • An unusual type of phenomenal quartz • A new...blue spinel • Dyed greenish blue chalcedony from Brazil • Conference reports 276 2007 Challenge Winners |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal, 75 mm long, from the Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gérais, Brazil. See 'The location, geology and mineralogy...mineralogy of gem tourmalines in Brazil' on pp. 263-98 ISSN: 1355-4565 262 J. G e m m , 1996, 25, 4 ...location, geology and mineralogy of gem tourmalines in Brazil Jacques P. Cassedanne, Dr. Sc. *, and Maurice Roditi...tourmalines, mainly green, blue, pink and red elbaite, including their gemmological properties and significant...Non-pegmatitic deposits of tourmaline include the Brumado mine (Bahia) which produces fine red uvite crystals and |  | | Journal (issue) | | deposits of the Capelinha Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil ......................................315 by A...on matrix, 4.4 cm, from Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gail and Jim Spann collection; Tom Spann photo...w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International proudly...greenmountainminerals.com BA R I T E 12 X 8” Parkside Mine, Frizington Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK Photo...DEPOSITS OF THE CAPELINHA REGION, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL Andrea Bartorelli1 Carlos Cornejo2 Mario Luiz de |  | Henn, Ulrich, Bank, Hermann, Bank, Francisco Hermann, Platen, Hilmar Von, Hofmeister, Wolfgang (1990) Transparent bright blue Cu-bearing tourmalines from Paraiba, Brazil. Mineralogical Magazine, 54 (377) 553-557 doi:10.1180/minmag.1990.054.377.04 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bright blue Cu-bearing tourmalines from Paraiba, Brazil ULRICH HENN, HERMANN BANK AND FRANCISCO HERMANN...from a new occurrence in the State of Paraiba, Brazil, are described. Refractive indices, birefringence...crystal chemistry, absorption spectrum, Brazil. Introduction BRAZIL is well known as a producer of gemquality...occurrence near the village Sao Jose da Batalha in the Municipio of Salgadinho in Paraiba State. This bright...specimen of this important mineral group. Besides Brazil, occurrences of blue tourmaline--the so-called |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | typically chemically zoned (e.g. from schorl to elbaite) and record the chemical and isotopic evolution...TOURMALINE Gem tourmaline is commonly close to elbaite in composition and occurs in pegmatite dikes as... The highest-quality blue Paraíba tourmaline from the Batalha mine, Brazil (the original discovery site)...challenged to develop effective provenance tools. Elbaite major element compositions are variable, and all...have been successfully employed to distinguish Paraíba tourmaline from Paraíbatype tourmaline from Mozambique |  | | Report (issue) | | render ing of elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard...Simmons, Berhard Wohrmann, Joachim Zang, and Warde da Fonseca-Zang Translated by Alexander U. Falster...Black Tourmaline? ..... 30 Joachim Zang and Warde da Fonseca-Zang The Saint Wenceslas Crown, the most...and Valuable: Cuprian Tourmaline from Paraiba, Brazil ....... 47 Brian C. Cook Discovery ♦ Technology...Maximilian Glas ............ 62 • Inclusions in Elbaite Crystals .......... 64 John I. Koivula • If Icarus |
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Batalha mine, São José da Batalha, Salgadinho, Paraíba, Brazil