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Chalcocite from
Salobo Mine, Marabá, Pará, Brazil


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Salobo Mine, Marabá, Pará, Brazil
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:545309
Long-form Identifier:1:3:545309:2
GUID (UUID V4):dc1ca1f8-d5f7-4307-b2f5-ff6be9a1df83
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
27.4km (17.0 miles) Igarapé Bahia mine, Alemão Cu deposit, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil
81.4km (50.6 miles) Alvo 118 Cu-Au deposit, Canaã dos Carajás, Pará, Brazil
88.3km (54.9 miles) Sossego Mine, Canaã dos Carajás, Pará, Brazil
97.3km (60.5 miles) Serra Pelada claims, Curionópolis, Pará, Brazil
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Temporal evolution of the giant Salobo IOCG deposit, Carajás Province (Brazil): constraints from paragenesis...Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 Abstract The giant Salobo copper-gold deposit is located in the Carajás Province...which are crosscut by the Old Salobo granite. Remnants of the Igarapé Salobo metavolcanic-sedimentary sequence...hydrated silicate alteration. Myrmekitic bornite-chalcocite and magnetite comprise the bulk of copper-gold...alteration, which is also recognized in the Old Salobo granite. In the central zone of the deposit the
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integrated model for the Neoarchean Carajás IOCG System, Brazil Maria Emilia Schutesky, Claudinei Gouveia de Oliveira...integrated model for the Neoarchean Carajás IOCG System, Brazil, Ore Geology Reviews (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10...integrated model for the Neoarchean Carajás IOCG System, Brazil Maria Emilia Schutesky & Claudinei Gouveia de Oliveira...Universidade de Brasília, Brazil The Carajás Mineral Province, located in northern Brazil, comprises the oldest...orthopyroxene(-marialite) in the Ni-rich GT-34 and Salobo deposits extend further the P-T boundaries to temperatures
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4, pp. 697–718 Tracing Fluid Sources for the Salobo and Igarapé Bahia Deposits: Implications for the...Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits in the Carajás Province, Brazil Gustavo H.C. de Melo,1,† Lena V.S. Monteiro,2 Roberto...- Bauxita, 35400-000 Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil of Geosciences, University of São Paulo (USP)...Rua do Lago, 562, 05508-080 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil of Geosciences, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)... 51, 13083-870 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Abstract The Salobo and Igarapé Bahia iron oxide copper-gold
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oxide–copper–gold deposit, Carajás Mineral Province (Brazil): Implications for ore genesis Ignacio Torresi...hematite (~20%), magnetite (10%) and subordinate chalcocite, native gold, Au–Ag tellurides, galena, cassiterite...UNICAMP, P.O. Box 6152, 13083–970 Campinas, SP, Brazil e-mail: xavier@ige.unicamp.br salinity (<15 wt...oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) deposits, mainly represented by the Salobo (789 Mt at 0.96 wt.% Cu, 0.52 g/t Au, 55 g/t Ag;...Serra Leste, Serra Sul) and IOCG deposits (e.g., Salobo and Igarapé Bahia) of the CMP. According to Olszewski
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Cu-Au deposits in the Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: implications for genetic models Peter J. Pollard...Industrial Simão da Cunha, Santa Luzia, MG 33.040-900, Brazil Miner Deposita Introduction Bi) deposits, including...Sequeirinho, Moreto et al. 2015a), 2.57 Ga (e.g., Salobo, Requia et al. 2003 and Igarapé Bahia, Tallarico...at the southeastern margin of the Amazon Craton, Brazil. Since discovery of the Carajás iron deposits in...in 1967 (Tolbert et al. 1971) and the Salobo copper-gold deposit in 1977 (Lindenmayer and Teixeira 1999)
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Deposit, Cinzento Shear Zone, Carajás Province, Brazil Poliana Iara de Freitas Toledo,¹,† Carolina Penteado...University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-855, Brazil ²State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry...Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, 35400-000, Brazil Abstract The Igarapé Cinzento (GT-46) iron oxide...of the Cinzento shear zone in Carajás province, Brazil. Copper mineralization in the deposit is hosted...southeastern portion of the Amazon craton (northwest Brazil, Fig. 1A) hosts a diverse range of mineral deposits
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Igarapé Bahia Deposit, Carajás Copper-Gold Belt, Brazil: An Archean (2.57 Ga) Example of Iron-Oxide Cu-Au-(U-REE)...Campinas, Caixa Postal 6152, 13.083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil, and Centre for Global Metallogeny, School of Earth...Campinas, Caixa Postal 6152, 13.083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil DAVID I. GROVES,† NATALIE KOSITCIN, NEAL J. MCNAUGHTON...Parauapebas, PA, Brazil Abstract A striking feature of the Carajás region, Brazil, is the clustering...Bahia volcano-sedimentary sequence and the Grão Pará volcanic rocks, which have published ages of ca
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Manuscript Bioleaching of waste material from the Salobo mine, Brazil: Recovery of refractory copper from Cu hosted... Bioleaching of waste material from the Salobo mine, Brazil: Recovery of refractory copper from Cu hosted... Bioleaching of waste material from the Salobo mine, Brazil: Recovery of refractory copper from Cu PT...collected at the Salobo 3 Alpha Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) mine in Pará State, Brazil. Bench-top column... CE Keywords: copper, silicates, bioleaching, Salobo, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Declining ore
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Carajás Mineral Province, Southern Amazon Craton, Brazil: Varying styles of Archean through Paleoproterozoic...124, Bairro Beira Rio, Parauapebas, PA 68515-000, Brazil Centre for Global Metallogeny and Centre for Exploration...Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil Received 31 January 2006; accepted 8 October 2006...are classic Fe-oxide Cu–Au deposits that include Salobo, Igarapé Bahia–Alemão, Cristalino and Sossego....invariably present. Rhenium–Os dating of molybdenite at Salobo and SHRIMP Pb–Pb dating of hydrothermal monazite
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oxide–copper–gold deposit, Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: paragenesis and stable isotope constraints Lena...0.28 g/t Au) in the Carajás Mineral Province of Brazil consists of two major groups of orebodies (Pis...Calógeras, 51, CEP 13083–970 Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil e-mail: lena@ige.unicamp.br M. W. Hitzman Department...Mineral Province . Brazil Introduction The Sossego iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) mine, operated by the...(CVRD) in the Carajás Mineral Province (CMP), Pará state, Brazil, was placed into production in 2004. The
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Calógeras, 51, CEP 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil e-mail: carolina.moreto@ige.unicamp.br C. Juliani...Lago, 562, CEP 05508-080 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil W. S. Amaral Geology Department, Federal University...of Ceará, UFC, CEP 60455-760 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Introduction The Carajás Mineral Province (CMP)...located in the southern part of the Amazonian Craton (Brazil), represents one of the most well-endowed mineral...deposit. The main IOCG deposits of the CMP include Salobo (789 Mt @ 0.96% Cu, 0.52 g/t Au, 55 g/t Ag; Souza
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in iron-rich ore to laterite formation, Salobo IOCG mine, Brazil A. Henne, D. Craw, E.J. Gagen, G. Southam...in iron-rich ore to laterite formation, Salobo IOCG mine, Brazil, Chemical Geology (2020), https://doi...in iron-rich ore to laterite formation, Salobo IOCG mine, Brazil A. Henne, D. Craw, E. J. Gagen, G. Southam...laterite, iron, microbial fossils, A. ferrooxidans, Salobo, weathering Abstract A diverse array of microorganisms...formation of laterites. The of Salobo iron-oxide copper gold (IOCG) mine in Brazil is an ideal environment to
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of copper in mineralised rocks at the Salobo IOCG deposit, Brazil A. Henne, D. Craw, E.J. Gagen, G. Southam...of copper in mineralised rocks at the Salobo IOCG deposit, Brazil, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...copper in mineralised 4 rocks at the Salobo IOCG deposit, Brazil 5 6 7 A. Henne1*, D. Craw2, E. J. Gagen1...primary ore at the giant Salobo iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposit in Brazil is 34 dominated by magnetite...ferrooxidans 50 previously cultured from the Salobo site. Bacterially-mediated precipitation of ferrihydrite
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Events at the Sossego Deposit, Carajás Province, Brazil: Re-Os and U-Pb Geochronological Evidence* C. P...University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-870, Brazil 2 Institute 3 Department of Geosciences, University...University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-080, Brazil of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta...in the southern Copper belt, Carajás province, Brazil. The Sossego deposit consists of two major groups...eastern part of the Amazon craton, northwestern Brazil, corresponds to a Mesoarchean crustal nucleus stabilized
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Cu–Au Visconde deposit, Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: implications for fluid source generation Antonia...in the Carajás Mineral Province (CMP), northern Brazil, near the contact between the ca. 2.76 Ga metavolcano-sedimentary...Geological Survey of Brazil, Av. André Araújo, 2160, 69060-000 Manaus, AM, Brazil e-mail: railinegeo@gmail...University of Pará-UFPA, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, Guamá, P.O. Box 1611, 66075-110 Belém, PA, Brazil R. N. N...Geology (PARÁ-ISO), Geosciences Institute, Federal University of Pará-UFPA, Belém, PA, Brazil V. P. Ferreira
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of the Southern Copper Belt, Carajás Province, Brazil Carolina P. N. Moreto & Lena V. S. Monteiro & Roberto...Abstract The Southern Copper Belt, Carajás Province, Brazil, hosts several iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) deposits...Campinas, Caixa Postal 6152, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil e-mail: carolina.moreto@gmail.com C. P. N. Moreto...Paulo, Rua do Lago, 562, 05508-080 São Paulo, SP, Brazil R. A. Creaser : S. A. DuFrane Department of Earth...and those in the Northern Copper Belt (2.57-Ga Salobo and Igarapé Bahia–Alemão deposits) do not share
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the Archean Salobo iron oxide copper–gold deposit, Carajás mineral province, northern Brazil Received:...derived from bornite–chalcopyrite–magnetite at the Salobo iron oxide copper–gold deposit to determine the...mineralization and its relation to the nearby Old Salobo Granite. Rhenium–osmium dating of molybdenite spatially...previously published U–Pb age of 2573±2 Ma for the Old Salobo Granite, suggesting that main stage ore formation...2579±71 Ma, and supports an Archean age for the Salobo ores. This is the first documentation of an Archean
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
observations on ferricrete formation at the Salobo IOCG mine, Brazil A. Henne a, *, D. Craw b, E.J. Gagen a...weathered, iron-rich rocks at the Salobo ironore copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, Brazil. The bacterially-mediated...in ferricrete overlaying the ore body at the Salobo mine. We suggest that magnetite is also bioavailable...surficial, acidic to circumneutral pH settings, such as mine tailings and can contribute to varying alteration...ferrooxidans Magnetite Ferrous iron Ferric iron Salobo Laterite 1. Introduction Magnetite is one of the
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PRODUCT FROM SILICATE-FACIES IRON FORMATION, SALOBO, CARAJAS, BRAZIL KAZUE TAZAKI 1, ZARA GERHARDT LINDENMAYER...Geologia e Mineraqao S.A., Rio de Janeiro, CEP 20030 (Brazil) (Revised and accepted for publication September...formation, Salobo, Carajas, Brazil. Chem. Geol., 67: 285-294. Lateritic soil covering the Salobo copper deposit...deposit (Brazil) grades 0.77 wt. % Cu, although no secondary Cu-sulphides or -carbonates have been identified...paper has 1802 ppm Cu and shows minor bornite and chalcocite. Weathered rocks show Cu-S films on the surfaces
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Carajas Region of northeastern Brazil (e.g. Igarape Bahia±Alemao, Salobo), and other less important Proterozoic...minerals, commonly chalcopyrite, bornite and/or chalcocite, (4) a low SiO2 content, particularly a lack...Huhn and Nascimento 1997; Tasava 1999), include Salobo (1,000 Mt at 0.85% Cu and 0.4 g/t Au) and Igarape±...deeper-level grunerite and even fayalite (e.g. Salobo: Lindenmayer 1998). There is also a suggestion...chalcopyrite and bornite with minor cubanite and chalcocite. As in many of the iron-oxide copper±gold deposits
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of copper with hydrous ferric oxides: Salobo, Caraj s, PA, Brazil Marcello M. Veigaa, Hans D. Schorschera...Inst. Geosciencias Cx. P. 20899, Sao Paulo 01498, Brazil bUniversity of Western Ontario, Department of Geology...of copper with hydrous ferric oxides: Salobo, Carajds, PA, Brazil. In: W. Petruk, A.H. Vassiliou and D...altered (weathered) copper ore from Salobo 3A, Caraj~is, state of Pard, Brazil, totalling 107 × 106 t of ore...cleavage planes and fractures. Introduction The Salobo 3A deposit is Brazil's most important copper occurrence
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pyrrhotite. Some deposits of the second type (Igarape Salobo and Igarape Bahia) are also syngenetic, but their...portion of the Amazon craton, known as the Central Brazil shield (Figs. 1 and 2). To the east, the province...CarajaÂs region being a subprovince of the Central Brazil shield. The other hypothesis holds that the post-Archean...implies a complex collisional history of northern Brazil prior to 1.8 Ga. According to this model, the...Igarape Bahia, GraÄo ParaÂ, Igarape Pojuca, Igarape Salobo Groups Rio Novo Group(?) Intrusive rocks Anorogenic
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ferrooxidans and A. thiooxidans) with a bornite-chalcocite ore at pH 4 and pH 2 was examined to determine...weeks, the ore possessed colonies on all bornite-chalcocite surfaces, evenly scattered individual cells on...ore sample indicates preferential leaching of chalcocite, with no significant solubilisation of bornite...copper recovery. Keywords: Bioleaching Bornite Chalcocite Passivation 1. Introduction Bioleaching of copper... 2006). In the case of bornite (Cu5FeS4) and chalcocite (Cu2S), dissolution occurs either through ferric
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label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Moreto, André Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco Antônio...Tunnels Au-Ag-Zn-Pb deposit, Montana, United States (mine now exhausted). 1971: Recognized control of ore...high sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Chile (mine now exhausted). 1971: First formal recognition...which led to discovery of Perkoa Zn-Pb-Ag deposit (mine under construction). 1990: Recommendation of Cerro
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magnetite from Igarapé Bahia, Alemao, Sossego, Salobo, and Candelaria iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) and...the Igarapé Bahia, Alemao, Sossego, and Salobo deposits in Brazil and the Candelaria deposit in Chile, whereas...distributed in the Carajás mineral province of Brazil and in the Chilean iron belt. The detailed geology...Cu-Au deposit in the Carajás mineral province of Brazil is hosted by granite, granophyric granite, gabbro...Cu-Au deposit in the Carajás mineral province of Brazil is hosted by Archean low-grade metamorphosed volcano-sedimentary
 
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