Historical observations on oxygen-bearing compounds of platinum and palladium in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 887-893

  Jedwab, Jacques ^a   Cassedanne, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Minas Gerais; Ouro preto; Oxide; Palladium; Platinum

Indexed keywords

GOLD; IRON; OXIDE; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0032466788     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. ADAM, M. (1869): Tableau minéralogique. Paris, France.
2. ANTONIL, A.J. (1711): Cultura e opulencia do Brasil por suas drogas e minas. Lisbon, Portugal. (Texte de l'édition de 1711, traduction française et commentaire critique par Andrée Mansuy, 1968). Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, Paris, France.
3. AUGÉ, T. & LEGENDRE, O. (1994): Platinum-group element oxides from the Pirogues ophiolitic mineralization, New Caledonia: origin and significance. Econ. Geol. 89, 1454-146.
4. BOXER, C.R. (1962): The Gold Rush in Minas Gerais. In The Golden Age of Brazil 1695-1750: growing pains of a colonial society. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
5. BURCHARD, U. (1994): The history and apparatus of blowpipe analysis. Mineral. Rec. 25, 251-277.
6. BURTON, R.F. (1869): The Highlands of the Brazil (vol. 1). Tinsley Bros., London, U.K.
7. CARVALHO DA SILVA, J., ROESER, H., SCHULTZ-DOBRICK, B. & TOBSCHALL, H.J. (1985): Ouro palladiado of the Mineralogical Museum, Ouro Preto, MG, revisited - new electron microprobe analyses. III Symp. Bras. Geoquimica. Boletim de resumos (Ouro Preto), 09.
8. CLARK, A.M., CRIDDLE, A.J. & FEIJER, E.E. (1974): Palladium arsenide - antimonides from Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Mineral. Mag. 39, 528-543.
9. CLOUD, J. (1809): An account of experiments made on palladium found in combination with pure gold (from Brazil). Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 6, 407-411.
10. DANA, J. D. (1857): Fourth Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy. Am. J. Sci. 74, 124.
11. _ (1858): A System of Mineralogy Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries (fourth ed.). New York, N. Y.
12. VON ESCHWEGE, W. (1833): Pluto Brasiliensis. Eine Reihe von Abhandlungen über Brasiliens Gold-Diamanten und anderen mineralischen Reichtum. Reimer, Berlin, Germany.
13. FERRAND, P. (1894): L'or à Minas Gerais (vol. 2). Imprensa Official do Estado de Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto, Brazil.
14. HOWE, J.L. & HOLTZ, H.C. (1919): Bibliography of the metals of the platinum group (1748-1917). U.S. Geol. Surv., Bull. 694.
15. HUSSAK, E. (1904): Ueber das Vorkommen von Palladium und Platin in Brasilien. Sitz. Kais. Kön. Ak. Wiss., Wien 113(1), 379-466.
16. JEDWAB, J. (1995): Oxygenated platinum-group-element and transition-metal (Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)-compounds in the supergene domain. Chron. Rech. Minières 520, 47-53.
17. _, CASSEDANNE, J., CRIDDLE, A. J., DU RY, P., GHYSENS, G., MEISSER, N., PIRET, P. & STANLEY, C.J. (1993): Rediscovery of palladinite PdO from Itabira (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and from Ruwe (Shaba, Zaire). Terra Abstracts, Suppl. to Terra Nova 5, 22.
18. JOHNSON, P.N. & LAMPADIUS, W.A. (1837): Ueber brasilianisches Palladgold und dessen Ausbringen und Scheidung (Mittheilung des Herrns P.N. Johnson, nebst Bemerkungen von W.A. Lampadius). Erdmann's J. Chem. 11, 309-315.
19. LAMPADIUS, W.A. & PLATTNER, G.P. (1833): Ueber das gemeinschaftliche Vorkommen des Platinerzes und des gediegenen Silbergoldes in einem Gangfossile aus Brazilien. J. f. techn. u. oekon. Chem. 18(4), 353-365.
20. LISBÔA, M.A.R. (1906): O Palladio e a Platina no Brazil. [Translation of Hussak (1904)]. Ann. Esc. Min. Ouro Preto 8, 77-118.
21. MAWE, J. (1812): Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country, by authority of the Prince Regent of Portugal. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, U.K.
22. OLIVO, G.R. & GAMMONS, C.H. (1996): Thermodynamic and textural evidence for at least two stages of Au-Pd mineralization at the Cauè iron mine, Itabira District, Brazil. Can. Mineral. 34, 547-557.
23. _ & GAUTHIER, M. (1995): Palladium minerals from the Cauè iron mine, Itabira District, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Mineral. Mag. 59, 455-463.
24. RAMMELSBERG, C.F. (1847): Handwoerterbuch des chemischen Theils der Mineralogie (third supplement). Berlin, Germany.
25. RUSSELL-WOOD, A.J.R. (1977): The gold cycle circa 1690-1750. In Colonial Brazil (Leslie Bethell, ed.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
26. SHEPARD, C.U. (1857): Treatise on Mineralogy (third ed., vol. 2). New Haven, Connecticut.
27. WOLLASTON, W.H. (1805): On the discovery of palladium; with observations on other substances, found with platina. Phil. Trans. 95, 316-330.
28. _ (1809): On platina and native platinum from Brasil. Phil. Trans. 99, 189-194.