Commodities
TertiaryTungsten
Commodity typeM
Materials
Other materialsEpidote, Quartz, Scheelite, Vesuvianite, Wollastonite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1943
Discovery year1943
Identification
Deposit ID10279647
RegionSA
Data scoreD
Coordinates-5.88117, -36.34888
References
BARBOSA, F.L.M., 1973, THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF TUNGSTEN INBRAZIL IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIES OF MINERALS AND FUELS,SCHOOL OF MINES QUART., V.68, NO. 4, PP. 115-102.EBERT, HEINZ, 1970, THE PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE "BORBOREM(STATES OF PARAIBA AND RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, N.E. BRAZIL)THE ORIGIN OF ITS MINERAL PROVINCES: GEOL. RUNDSCH., V.5PP. 1292-1326.JOHNSTON, W.D. AND VASCONCELLOS, F.M. DE, 1945, SCHEELITE INBRAZIL: ECON. GEOL., V.40, NO. 1, PP. 34-50.BARBOSA, F.L.M., 1973, PERFIL ANALITICO DO TUNGSTENIO: DNPMNO. 24, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 69 P.