Navegando por Assunto "Minerais"

Agora exibindo 1 - 8 de 8

Acesso aberto (Open Access)
Considerações lito-estruturais sobre o duplex transpessivo Serra Pelada
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 1992-07-18) OULD LAB, Khalifa; COSTA, João Batista Sena; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0141806217745286
Acesso aberto (Open Access)
Dispersão geoquímica dos elementos Si, Al, Fe, Mn, Na, K, Cu e Zn nos solos e sua aplicação na caracterização de áreas geoquimicamente homogêneas
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 1980-05-13) SILVA, Waldise Rossycléa Lima da; RONCAL, Juan Rolando Zuleta
Variations in the chemical composition of soils are used to characterize sub-areas geochemitally homogenous. The aplication of this methodology in a tropical humid region of accentuated topography constitute the principal objective of the present research. Samples of red latosols (Horizon B) developed over gravite, sandstone and basalt occurring in the Central Granite Region of the Serra dos Carajás, Pará State, Brasil were analized for the elements Si, AL., Fe, 40Mn, Na, K, Cu e Zn, by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Based on the criterion of similarity in the chemical composition (Cluster Analysis, Factor Analysis) the soils were separeted in to different groups. The geographical distribution of the different groups permit the establishment of a Glose relationship between the different parent lithologies and their corresponding soils.
Acesso aberto (Open Access)
Estudo da paratuberculose em búfalos (Bubalus bubalis) no estado do Maranhão
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-03-11) REIS, Alessandra dos Santos Belo; BARBOSA NETO, José Diomedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1516707357889557
This study investigated paratuberculosis (PTB) in water buffaloes in the state of Maranhão (MA). For that were performed using the rectal biopsy as an auxiliary tool in the collection of samples for ante mortem diagnosis of PTB; dosages of copper (Cu), zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) in PTB positive animals was performed, as well as the report of the detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map) in the utero and fetus of a buffalo. In the first study were conducted 140 rectal biopsies in buffaloes of Murrah, Mediterranean and their crossbreeds, over the age of three years in São Mateus, MA. These biopsies were processed by Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) staining and quantitative PCR (qPCR). Postmortem examination of 11 buffaloes with clinical signs suggestive of PTB was performed and samples of ileum and mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) were collected for performing qPCR and ZN. By ZN staining of rectal biopsies, 4.3% (6/140) acid-fast bacilli and qPCR, 5% (7/140) had amplification of genetic material. The pathological lesions of four animals were consistent with lesions suggestive of PTB showed acid-fast bacilli and amplification of genetic material. The correlation between rectal biopsy and analysis of ileal tissue and LM, according to the Kappa test was high (K=0.792). In the second study, 13 postmortem examination were carried in buffaloes of Murrah, Mediterranean and their crossbreeds, over the age of three years in the cities of São Mateus and São Luís, MA. Ileum and mesenteric lymph nodes samples were collected for Map search and liver to dosage minerals (Cu, Zn and Fe). Seven buffaloes were positive for PTB and allocated in Group 1; six buffaloes were negative and allocated in Group 2. In the dosing of trace minerals in Group 1 showed levels below the reference values for Cu and Zn. It was observed that the average Cu concentration was 18.0ppm and Zn 68.6ppm. In Group 2 the average Cu concentration was 113.7ppm and Zn 110.0ppm. The iron concentrations in both groups were high (>669ppm). The third study was conducted on a property in São Luís, MA. A buffalo cow pregnant with marked physical debility and clinical signs suggestive of PTB was eutanasiada and necropsiada. Fragments ileum, MLN, uterus, and placenta of buffalo cow were collected; fragments of kidney, liver, umbilical vessel and digestive system (DS) of the fetus were collected and were analyzed by Zn and qPCR. The buffalo cow was positive in ileum samples, mesenteric lymph nodes and uterus in qPCR and the fetus was positive in DS. In the ileum, MLN and feces were observed acid-fast bacilli. It is concluded that rectal biopsy analysis can be used to help diagnose ante mortem. The PTB could lead to mineral deficiency and worsen the clinical condition of the buffaloes. The presence of Map in buffalo can occur in various organs, including the reproductive system and intrauterine transmission can occur in this species.
Acesso aberto (Open Access)
Implantação do método Sm-Nd em minerais metamórficos e sua aplicação em rochas da região central do Amapá, sudeste do Escudo das Guianas
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2002-08-05) OLIVEIRA, Elma Costa; LAFON, Jean Michel; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4507815620234645
Acesso aberto (Open Access)
Mineralogy and chemistry of the green stone artifacts (muiraquitãs) of the museums of the Brazilian State of Pará
(2012-03) MEIRELLES, Anna Cristina Resque; COSTA, Marcondes Lima da
Muiraquitãs, lithic artifacts found in the Amazon basin, have been considered to be Asian in origin, or to have been sculpted by the legendary female Amazon warriors. These pieces are now very rare, and are found mainly in museum collections. In the present study, the mineralogical and chemical content of 23 specimens from the collections of the Museu de Gemas (Gemstone Museum) and Museu do Encontro (Meeting Museum) in Belém, Brazil, were analyzed. Most of the pieces were made of minerals commonly found in Brazil - quartz, albite, microcline, variscite, anorthite, and tremolite (the equivalent of nephritic jade). However, four of the pieces were made of jadeite, that is, jadeitic jade, which is unknown in the Amazon basin or in other parts of Brazil. The confirmation of the presence of this mineral in some of the artifacts reopens the debate on the mineralogical origin of the muiraquitãs found in the Amazon basin. Before the present discovery, their origin was defended as Amazonian due to the absence of jadeite jade in the searched pieces and the fact that jadeite was not found in Brazil but in Central America and Asia.
Acesso aberto (Open Access)
Petrologia de granitos alcalinos com alto flúor mineralizados em metais raros: o exemplo do Albita-granito da mina Pitinga, Amazonas, Brasil
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2000-11-23) COSTI, Hilton Túlio; DALL'AGNOL, Roberto; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2158196443144675
The mineral deposits of the Pitinga mine are related to the Proterozoic Água Boa and Madeira granites. Both are intrusive in the 1888 ± 3 Ma old acid volcanic rocks of the lricoumé Group. The Madeira Granite is composed by four facies, which emplacement sequence was inferred from its field relationships. The early facies is an 1824 ± 2 Ma old, porphyritic, metaluminous amphibole biotite syenogranite, which locally shows rapakivi texture. This facies is followed by an 1822 ± 1 Ma old, equigranular, peraluminous alkali feldspar biotite gravite. The two late facies are an 1818 ± 2 Ma old porphyritic, hypersolvus, alkali feldspar grafite and subsolvus albite gravite. Contact relationships indicate that the liquids forming these two late phases coexisted during the magmatic stage. This implies that they were emplaced almost simultaneously and also that the albite gravite and the hypersolvus grafite have a similar age. The albite gravite is composed by two facies. The dominant is a gray, peralkaline core facies (CAbG), which is composed essentially by albite, quartz and K-feldspar, accompanied by cryolite, zircon, polylithionite, riebeckite, Li-Fe mica, cassiterite, pyrochlore and magnetite. The modal proportions of the essential phases are similar, suggesting a magmatic origin for the CAbG and a cotectic or near minimum composition for its melt. Other features indicating a magmatic origin for the CAbG are: (1) the common occurrence of microscopic snowball textures; (2) it's petrographic and geochemical homogeneous character; (3) local presence of associated rocks with fluidal or pegmatitic textures. The CAbG is transitional to a reddish, peraluminous border facies (BAbG), found along the contacts of the albite with the early facies of the Madeira Granite. The BAbG is composed by albite, quartz and K-feldspar, with subordinate amounts of fluorite, zircon, chlorite, cassiterite, hematite, and columbite. The BAbG modal proportions of the essential phases are more variable and it has higher quartz and lower albite modal contents compared with the CAbG. The BAbG was originated by the autometasomatic alteration of the CAbG. The fluids involved in this process had a strongly oxidizing character and associated chemical changes destabilized the peralkaline mineralogy of the CAbG as evidenced by the replacement of cryolite, micas, pyrochlore and riebeckite. EMPA analyses indicate that the feldspars of the CAbG have near end-member compositions. The K-feldspars (Or —98%) are not perthitic and show high contents of Rb20 (-2%) and Fe2O3 (-0.6%), while the albites (Ab —99%) show anomalously high Fe2O3 (-1%) and relatively low Al2O3. These compositional characteristics indicate: a final crystallization temperature around 500°C or lower for the CAbG; the Al2O3 depleted character of the CAbG melt. Two micas were identified in the CAbG, both showing extremely low K/Rb ratios and high contents of Fe, Zn e Li. The more abundant is a Zn-Rb-polylithionite and the other is dark, Fe-Li mica with high Zn, F and Rb contents. The latter is relatively impoverished in Al2O3 and has Fe in tetrahedral positions, being tentatively classified as a tetra-ferri-Li mica. The unusual chemical compositions of micas and feldspars, as weli as the associated Sn, Nb, Zr, F, mineralization indicate that the CAbG derived from a melt that was geochemically similar to those forming fractionated, rare metal NYF pegmatites. The high Fe2O3 in feldspars and high Fe2O3/FeO in the dark mica, besides the presence of magnetite in the CAbG, suggests that it crystallized under relatively oxidizing conditions (-NINO). The CAbG shows very high contents of F, Na2O, Sn, Nb, Zr, U, Th, Zn, Li and Rb, and low CaO, MgO, TiO2, P2O5, Ba, and Sr. K/Rb and Rb/Sr ratios display extreme values, demonstrating the advanced fractionation of the liquid that originates the CAbG. The gullwing-shaped REE patterns and very low LaN/YbN ratios indicate the strong influence of F during magmatic evolution. The REE are distributed as M-type tetrads, showing that the fractionation mechanisms and the distribution of the REE's were controlled by processes similar to those observed in rare metal-bearing, evolved granitic systems. The Nd isotopes indicate crustal Paleoproterozoic protholiths for the two early facies of the Madeira Granite, which shows slightly negative εNd values. The CAbG and one sample of the hypersolvus grafite show low, positive εNd values. These data can be interpreted as indicating that: (1) the albite granite and the hypersolvus grafite have a protholith which is distinct from that of the earlier facies of the Madeira Granite; (2) both group of rocks derived from a same protholith but the Sm-Nd isotopic system of the albite granite and hypersolvus grafite was disturbed. Ali analyzed samples of the BAbG and an oxidized sample of the hypersolvus grafite shows strongly negative and scattered εNd values. This suggests that the hydrothermal processes that affected these rocks were able to strongly disturb their Nd isotopic system. The adopted petrogenetic nnodel, based on experiments on the system albite grafite -H20 - HF at 1 Kbar, suggests that the albite granite was originated from residual liquids derived from pristine F-rich, MgO-, TiO2--, CaO-depleted magmas. The very high F contents of the residual liquids strongly depressed the viscosity, density and the solidus of the system. This permitted a extreme fractionation of the melt, which evolved in a temperature interval coincident with those of pegmatitic processes. Due to the increase of the H2O contents in the residual liquid in the inner portions of the albite grafite, water saturation was attained and an aqueous fluids was segregated allowing the formation of pegmatitic rocks, while the F-rich residual melt phase generated the veins and pods of massive cryolite.
Acesso aberto (Open Access)
Textural patterns, mineralogy, and chemistry of sandstone-related Calçadinha chalcedony (Piauí, Brazil)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-09) COSTA, Marcondes Lima da; ALENCAR, Quézia da Silva; GOMES, Érico Rodrigues; ALMEIDA, Henrique Diniz Farias de; OLIVEIRA, Sarise Kamanda de
Paleozoic sandstones of the Parnaíba Basin, in addition to hosting opal deposits, also have occurrences of chalcedonies with potential for mineral and ornamental handicrafts, in addition to assisting the understanding of the geological evolution of the basin. However, the chalcedonies were not investigated yet, and this study intended to fulfill this gap by the investigation of the chalcedonies of Calçadinha in Piauí. Fieldwork, microtexturals analysis, X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectrometry, chemical analysis, and gemological assessments were developed. Four distinct types of chalcedonies have been distinguished. They stand out for their well distribution of Fe and Mn dendrites, which involves opal nodules, and contains microcavities with well-formed microcrystalline quartz, nontronite, and palygorskite. The mesoscopic features of these chalcedonies and cabochon and free forms cutting show potential for use in mineral crafts and semi-jewels. As expected, the chalcedonies are dominated by high contents of SiO2, besides the low and variable contents of Al2O3, Fe2O3, MgO, and TiO2. Among trace elements that show high Ba contents, bound in barite, seem also to be a geochemical signature of the country sandstones in Parnaíba basin. These chalcedonies were formed during the partial solubilization of SiO2 of sandstones, which was promoted during their tectonic formation in faults and fractures zones.
Acesso aberto (Open Access)
A turquesa de Itacupim, Pará
(2004-12) COSTA, Marcondes Lima da; CHOQUE FERNANDEZ, Oscar Jesus; TOLEDO, Maria Cristina Mota de; PASSOS, Camila Maria; PEREIRA, Patrícia Freitas
Veins and veinlets of aluminum phosphates with turquoise occur at the Itacupim Island in the coastal plain northeast the state of Pará. A thick mature lateritic iron crust rich in aluminum phosphates developed an apatite-bearing alkaline-ultramafic complex which constitutes the Island. The veins and veinlets are cm-thick, usually constituted by wavellite, fibrous to radialfibrous, with bony or porcelaneous aspect, and can turquoise. Pebbles of these phosphates inside of apatite-bearing ultramafic rocks are very common at the base of the hang wall, and locally form expressive agglomerates. Turquoise forms half spheroids and is bluish-green, microcrystalline, and is intergrown with kaolinite and Mn oxy-hydroxides. The mineral identification was carried out by XRD optic microscopy, chemical analyses by wet methods and by SEM/EDS. The lower CuO values, in comparison to turquoise elsewhere, are compensated by the higher Fe2O3 and ZnO. The spheroids display countless inclusions of micrometric goyazite or svanbergite. The turquoise relation to veins and veinlets with wavellite, goyazite or svanbergite, quartz and clay minerals, its porcelaneous aspect and well-known occurrence of turquoise in hydrothermal environment indicate that the Itacupim turquoise was formed by the same mechanism. It doesn't display any clear relationship to laterite profile. The color and compact aspect of this turquoise make it suitable for use as gems.