MINERALS & PRECIOUS STONES OF BRAZIL

This book describes Brazilian minerals, masterpieces of nature, which endowed our subsoil with incomparable wealth of variety and quality. The authors opted to place emphasis on the history of mineralogy in Brazil, closely linked with the history ofBrazilian mining, which has been characterized by a series of superlatives - Brazil was leading world producer of gold and of diamonds between the mid-18th century and the mid-19th century.