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Cabral, Alexandre R., da Costa, Marco A., Oliveira, Leandro, Hector, Simon, Zeh, Armin, Martins, Maximiliano de Souza, Moura, Pablo, Silva, Marco, Nazareth, Liliani P.T., Silva, Luiz C. da, et al. (2024) The historical Corrente gold deposit, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Geological characteristics and a reconnaissance study of nugget effect. Applied Earth Science: Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy. doi:10.1177/25726838241249369

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TitleThe historical Corrente gold deposit, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Geological characteristics and a reconnaissance study of nugget effect
JournalApplied Earth Science: Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy
AuthorsCabral, Alexandre R.Author
da Costa, Marco A.Author
Oliveira, LeandroAuthor
Hector, SimonAuthor
Zeh, ArminAuthor
Martins, Maximiliano de SouzaAuthor
Moura, PabloAuthor
Silva, MarcoAuthor
Nazareth, Liliani P.T.Author
Silva, Luiz C. daAuthor
Amorim, Lucas E.D.Author
Kwitko-Ribeiro, RogerioAuthor
Araújo, Glorimar D.S.Author
Baeta, Victor A.D.Author
Lemos, Tales de C.Author
Porto, João V.E.Author
Ribeiro Jr, Nelson F.Author
Soares, Maria L.F.Author
Waughan, Gustavo D.Author
Year2024 (May 20)
PublisherSAGE Publications
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DOIdoi:10.1177/25726838241249369Search in ResearchGate
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Full ReferenceCabral, Alexandre R., da Costa, Marco A., Oliveira, Leandro, Hector, Simon, Zeh, Armin, Martins, Maximiliano de Souza, Moura, Pablo, Silva, Marco, Nazareth, Liliani P.T., Silva, Luiz C. da, et al. (2024) The historical Corrente gold deposit, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Geological characteristics and a reconnaissance study of nugget effect. Applied Earth Science: Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy. doi:10.1177/25726838241249369
Plain TextCabral, Alexandre R., da Costa, Marco A., Oliveira, Leandro, Hector, Simon, Zeh, Armin, Martins, Maximiliano de Souza, Moura, Pablo, Silva, Marco, Nazareth, Liliani P.T., Silva, Luiz C. da, et al. (2024) The historical Corrente gold deposit, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Geological characteristics and a reconnaissance study of nugget effect. Applied Earth Science: Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy. doi:10.1177/25726838241249369
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Abstract/NotesCorrente is a historical underground working in Minas Gerais, Brazil, mined for gold in the nineteenth century, for which little geological information is available. Retrieval of unpublished exploration reports from the 1980s has enabled the recognition of a 7-km-long linear cluster of historical underground and open-cast workings, here referred to as the Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield. Gold production ceased at Cata Branca, the most economically relevant deposit of the goldfield, in 1844. Both Corrente and Cata Branca are auriferous quartz-lode deposits. Geological characteristics of the Corrente deposit are presented, as well as reconnaissance whole-rock analyses for Au using a variety of analytical methods, including conventional fire assay, atomic absorption spectrometry, instrumental neutron activation analysis and laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA–ICP–MS) on pressed-powder pellets (PPPs). Corrente is characterised as a gold-only deposit. The Corrente auriferous quartz lode, hosted in the Archaean greenstone belt sequence of the Rio das Velhas Supergroup, is extensively oxidised and has conspicuous wall-rock alteration to fine-grained muscovite. The resulting sericite phyllite shows overprint by low-temperature kaolinitisation, likely the product of wall-rock hydration mediated by acidic water derived from sulfide oxidation at depth, below the modern weathering zone. The Corrente gold deposit has a high nugget effect. Time-resolved results of LA–ICP–MS on PPPs indicate the presence of particulate gold even in barren kaolinitised wall-rock phyllite.

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Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Casaval Mine, Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Cata Branca Mine, Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Corrente Mine, Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Moinho Mine, Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Morro das Almas Mine, Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Rasgão Mine, Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Santo Antônio Mine, Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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LocalityMineral(s)
Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bismuthinite, Breccia, Cerianite-(Ce), Chlorite Group, Garnet Group, Goethite, Graphite, Hematite, Kaolin, Kaolinite, Mica schist, Monazite Group, Muscovite, Native Gold, Phyllite, Pyrite, Quartz, Quartzite, Schist, Sericite, Staurolite, Stibnite, White mica, Xenotime
Corrente Mine, Cata Branca–Corrente goldfield, Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil Muscovite, Native Gold, Phyllite, Quartz


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