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[carlo11]

Good evening. I am a geology student and mineral collector from Spain. I am looking for any information about the Urucum mine's geology and history, as I have recently acquired a few pieces from the aforementioned mine and, as I usually do, tried to do some research on it with little success, mainly because the main papers that directly speak about the mine in mindat's references are behind a paywall that I could not bypass even thru my university access. Also, just as a side note, I am finding it very hard to swallow the fact that there are barely any institutions that carry numbers of the mineralogical record, a true disappointment in my personal opinion.