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Bismuthinite from
Limarinho deposit, Ardãos e Bobadela, Boticas, Vila Real, Portugal


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Bismuthinite
Formula:Bi2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismuthinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limarinho deposit, Ardãos e Bobadela, Boticas, Vila Real, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1567731
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1567731:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Bismuthinite
30.8km (19.2 miles) ⓘJales Mines (Jales Mining Field), Alfarela de Jales, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Vila Real, Portugal
33.0km (20.5 miles) ⓘJales Mines (Jales Mining Field), Tresminas, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Vila Real, Portugal
33.0km (20.5 miles) ⓘJales Mines (Jales Mining Field), Vreia de Jales, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Vila Real, Portugal
33.4km (20.8 miles) ⓘBorralha Mines, Salto, Montalegre, Vila Real, Portugal
38.1km (23.7 miles) ⓘCarris Mines, Cabril, Montalegre, Vila Real, Portugal
42.0km (26.1 miles) ⓘErvedosa Mine (Tuela Mine), Ervedosa, Vinhais, Bragança, Portugal
51.3km (31.9 miles) ⓘMurçós Mines, Murçós, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Bragança, Portugal
57.4km (35.7 miles) ⓘVieiros Mines, Rebordelo, Amarante, Porto, Portugal
63.8km (39.6 miles) ⓘPedra da Moura Mine, Touvedo (São Lourenço e Salvador), Ponte da Barca, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
68.7km (42.7 miles) ⓘPenouta mines, Viana do Bolo, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
References
Fuertes-Fuente, M., Cepedal, A., Martin-Izard, A., De Lima, A. C., Dória, M. A., Ribeiro, M. A., & Guedes, A. (2011). Gold-bearing quartz vein system of the Limarinho Deposit (northern Portugal). In Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits 11thBiennial Meeting Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 539-541).
Cepedal, Antonia, Martínez-Abad, Iker, Fuertes-Fuente, Mercedes, Lima, Alexandre (2013) The presence of plumboan ingodite and a rare Bi-Pb tellurosulfide, Pb3Bi4Te4S5, in the Limarinho Gold deposit, Northern Portugal. The Canadian Mineralogist, 51 (4) 643-651 doi:10.3749/canmin.51.4.643
 
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