underthescopemineral: Unnamed, Connellite Cu-S-Si-O-H, Cu36(SO4)(OH)62Cl8·6H2O Localit
underthescopemineral: Unnamed, Connellite Cu-S-Si-O-H, Cu36(SO4)(OH)62Cl8·6H2O Locality:Slag dumps, Sitio do Cobre Mine, Ingadanais Mines, Tostão, Vila Velha de Rodão, Castelo Branco District, Portugal Field of View: 1.5 mm Bernard Bouissac’s Photo In Sitio do Cobre mine and along the Açafal riverside near a Roman bridge, there is a slag dump resulting from the smelting of copper ore. These foundry works are prior to registration of the concession in 1904. The slags of the Ingadanais mines were studied and analyzed by João Carvalho and Miguel Gaspar (2009), who identified another slag dump in Enxarrique riverside mine with works of foundry in fifties. -- source link
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