Free Content Platinum Group Minerals in Eastern Brazil

Author: Nelson Angeli1

Source: Platinum Metals Review, Volume 49, Number 1, January 2005 , pp. 41-53(13)

Publisher: Johnson Matthey

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Abstract:

Brazil does not have working platinum mines, nor even large reserves of the platinum metals, but there is platinum in Brazil. In this paper, four massifs (mafic/ultramafic complexes) in eastern Brazil, in the states of Minas Gerais and Ceará, where platinum is found will be described. Three of these massifs contain concentrations of platinum group minerals or platinum group elements, and gold, associated with the chromitite rock found there. In the fourth massif, in Minas Gerais State, the platinum group elements are found in alluvial deposits at the Bom Sucesso occurrence. This placer is currently being studied.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1595/147106705X24391

Affiliations: 1: Department of Petrology and Metallogeny, University of São Paulo State (UNESP), 24-A Avenue, 1515, Rio Claro (SP), 13506-710, Brazil

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