Raposos
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| name = Raposos
| official_name = Municipality of Raposos
| settlement_type = Municipality
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Raposos is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Belo Horizonte.
Geography
The municipality contains the Raposos gold mines opened by the Saint John d'El Rey Mining Company around 1910.
As of 1955 the main lodes were the Espiritu Santo, Mina Grande and Espiritu West, which were connected by underground workings and had reached a depth of about {{convert|640|m}}.{{sfn|Jacob E. Gair|1949|p=A-59}}
At the end of 1955 the Raposos mines had total reserves of 1,694,080 metric tons of ore with an average of 9.5 grams of gold per ton.{{sfn|Jacob E. Gair|1949|p=A-60}}
The municipality contains about 10% of the {{convert|31270|ha}} Serra do Gandarela National Park, created in 2014.{{sfn|PARNA de Serra do Gandarela – ISA}}
See also
References
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{{Commons category|Raposos}}
Sources
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- {{citation
|author=Jacob E. Gair|title=Geological Survey Professional Paper|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eoqAQAAIAAJ&pg=SL1-PA58|access-date=2016-08-12
|year=1949|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|chapter=Geology and ore deposits of the Nova Lima and Rio Acima quadrangles, Minas Gerais, Brazil}}
- {{citation|ref={{harvid|PARNA de Serra do Gandarela – ISA}}|language=pt
|title=PARNA de Serra do Gandarela|publisher=ISA: Instituto Socioambiental |url=https://uc.socioambiental.org/uc/602416|access-date=2016-06-12}}
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{{Municipalities of Minas Gerais}}
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Category:Municipalities in Minas Gerais
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