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Native Gold from
Limarinho deposit, Ardãos e Bobadela, Boticas, Vila Real, Portugal


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Native Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Native Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limarinho deposit, Ardãos e Bobadela, Boticas, Vila Real, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:862803
Long-form Identifier:1:3:862803:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Native Gold
0.8km (0.5 miles) ⓘPoço das Freitas deposit, Ardãos e Bobadela, Boticas, Vila Real, Portugal
28.4km (17.6 miles) ⓘTresminas Mines, Tresminas, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Vila Real, Portugal
30.8km (19.2 miles) ⓘJales Mines (Jales Mining Field), Alfarela de Jales, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Vila Real, Portugal
30.9km (19.2 miles) ⓘGralheira Mine, 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
44.5km (27.7 miles) ⓘLomba Grande Mine, Tuizelo, Vinhais, Bragança, Portugal
51.3km (31.9 miles) ⓘLatadas Mines, São Salvador, Mirandela, Bragança, Portugal
51.3km (31.9 miles) ⓘLatadas Mines, Freixeda e Vila Verde, Mirandela, Bragança, Portugal
52.2km (32.5 miles) ⓘFacuca - Vale de Cieiro and Lameiro do Bicheiro Mines, Pena， Quintã e Vila Cova, Vila Real, Vila Real, Portugal
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
Fuertes-Fuente, Mercedes; Cepedal, Antonia; Lima, Alexandre; Dória, Armanda; Ribeiro, Maria dos Anjos; Guedes, Alexandra (2016) The Au-bearing vein system of the Limarinho deposit (northern Portugal): Genetic constraints from Bi-chalcogenides and Bi–Pb–Ag sulfosalts, fluid inclusions and stable isotopes. Ore Geology Reviews, 72. 213-231 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.07.009
 
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