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Borba, Évora, Portugali
Regional Level Types
BorbaMunicipality
ÉvoraDistrict
PortugalCountry

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Aerial view of the Borba marble quarries

Marble quarries, Borba, Évora, Portugal
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Aerial view of the Borba marble quarries

Marble quarries, Borba, Évora, Portugal
Largest Settlements:
PlacePopulation
Borba4,586 (2014)
Mindat Locality ID:
158174
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:158174:7
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
French:
Borba, Évora, Portugal
German:
Borba, Distrikt Évora, Portugal
Italian:
Borba, distretto di Évora, Portogallo
Portuguese:
Borba, Évora, Portugal
Russian:
Борба, Эвора, Португалия
Simplified Chinese:
博爾巴, 埃武拉區, 葡萄牙
Spanish:
Borba, Distrito de Évora, Portugal
Arabic:
بوربا, محافظة إيفورا, البرتغال
Asturian:
Borba
Basque:
Borba, Evora
Catalan:
Borba, Districte d'Évora, Portugal
Cebuano:
Borba , Distrito de Évora
Dutch:
Borba, Évora, Portugal
Galician:
Borba, Distrito de Évora, Portugal
Hungarian:
Borba, Évora, Portugália
Japanese:
ボルバ, エヴォラ県, ポルトガル
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Борба
Malay:
Borba, Daerah Évora
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Borba, Évora Koān
Polish:
Borba, Dystrykt Évora, Portugalia
Turkish:
Borba, évora District, Portekiz
Ukrainian:
Борба, Евора, Португалія
Vietnamese:
Borba, Évora, Bồ Đào Nha
Volapük:
Borba
Waray:
Borba , Évora


Municipality of Évora district.

Several active-inactive marble quarries.

Mining concession no. 874 "Monte de São Gregório" (Fe), Rio de Moinhos parish, registered on 19-08-1919.

Other referred mineral occurrences:
Barreiro (Fe)
Borba (Fe)
Convento da Luz (Cu)
Quintas (Fe)
in LNEG database, Nov 2014.

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5 valid minerals.

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
Pyrite2.EB.05aFeS2
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Goethite4.00.Fe3+O(OH)
Quartz4.DA.05SiO2
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates
Calcite5.AB.05CaCO3
Dolomite5.AB.10CaMg(CO3)2
Unclassified
'Limonite'-

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
H GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
CCarbon
C CalciteCaCO3
C DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
OOxygen
O CalciteCaCO3
O DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
O GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
O QuartzSiO2
MgMagnesium
Mg DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
SiSilicon
Si QuartzSiO2
SSulfur
S PyriteFeS2
CaCalcium
Ca CalciteCaCO3
Ca DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
FeIron
Fe GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
Fe PyriteFeS2

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Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borba,_Portugal
Wikidata ID:Q893339
GeoNames ID:8010500

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