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Article: On the Road to Minas Gerais, Brazil.(Brief Article)
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- Rocks & Minerals
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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During the last few decades, the mineral and gem world has been blessed with a succession of new and wonderful localities. When my own interest in minerals was first piqued about thirty years ago, one place stood out as an almost mystical source of exceptional specimens--Minas Gerais. So many different things had come from this exotic place. The first article I read about Minas Gerais, a one-page commentary titled "Locality--Minas Gerais" by John S. White Jr., in the second issue of the Mineralogical Record (1970), gave me my first glimpse of Minas Gerais--a land of mineral and gem riches filled not only with a diversity of mines and mineral deposits but also with ...
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