Geologia, petrografia e geocronologia das rochas do depósito aurífero Ouro Roxo, Província Tapajós, Jacareacanga (PA), Brasil

O depósito Ouro Roxo localiza-se próximo da cidade de Jacareacanga, Província Aurífera Tapajós, sudoeste do Pará. O depósito consiste em um sistema hidrotermal de veios de quartzo sulfetados, hospedado em granitoides paleoproterozoicos milonitizados da Suíte Intrusiva Tropas e controlado estruturalmente pela zona de cisalhamento N-S Ouro Roxo-Canta Galo (ZCOC). Os granitoides hospedeiros são granodioritos e tonalitos oxidados, calcioalcalinos, típicos de arco magmático. A ZCOC é oblíqua sinistral dúctil-rúptil e enquadra-se no terceiro evento de deformação da Província Tapajós que transformou os granitoides Tropas em protomilonitos e milonitos intercalados com brechas. A foliação milonítica NNE mergulhando para ESSE e uma lineação de estiramento em grãos de quartzo indicam a direção do movimento para NW. Filões e corpos tubulares de quartzo mineralizados ocorrem encaixados nos milonitos e brechas, envolvidos por halos de alteração hidrotermal. Além da silicificação e sulfetação concentradas nos corpos mineralizados, três tipos de alteração hidrotermal ocorrem: propilitização (clorita + fengita + carbonato); alteração fílica (fengita + quartzo + carbonato + pirita); carbonatação. Além do quartzo magmático e do quartzo microcristalino dos milonitos, foram reconhecidas cinco gerações de quartzo hidrotermal nos filões, estando o minério relacionado ao quartzo4. Os dados isotópicos Pb-Pb não sustentam uma relação genética entre o depósito aurífero e os granitoides Tropas, sendo o depósito contemporâneo à granitogênese Maloquinha. O ambiente orogênico, o estilo filoneano do depósito, o controle estrutural, a alteração hidrotermal (propilítica + fílica + carbonatação) e a associação metálica (Au + Cu + Bi) são compatíveis com o modelo orogênico da interface mesozona-epizona para a gênese do depósito aurífero Ouro Roxo.

Estudo geofísico em um depósito de manganês supergênico no município de Itapira - SP

The mining research is a complex activity, which should preferably involve the combination of direct and indirect techniques of geological research. The increasing demand for base metals in domestic and international markets provide the revaluation of mineral occurrences, which can be converted into deposits and mines. This paper presents the results of the application of geophysical methods of electric resistivity and induced polarization in main foliation parallel to the arrangement of the area, in a deposit of oxides and hydroxides in massive and disseminated ores, docked in gneisses and quartzites, located in the municipality of Itapira, in the North of the State of São Paulo in Brazil. Inversion models indicate the predominance of high cargabilidade that partially coincide with low resistivity values. Integration of geophysical data made possible the drafting of sections of electric walking with cross-checking distance x depth, for detailing your target. The integrated analysis of geophysical and geological structural data leads to the conclusion that the primary mining suffers structural control with the regional foliation in ores

Geologia do depósito de ouro do alvo guarda-mor, na sequência Jaupaci (Israelândia - GO)

The study area of the Guarda-Mor target (Israelândia-GO) contextualizes the terrains of the estaern portion of the Arenópolis Magmatic Arc, more accurately, the Neoproterozoic associations inserted in the field of the Jaupaci volcano-sedimentary sequence. The mapped area is located in the central-western of Goiás state. The presente paper has as main objective to characterize the structural, petrographic and litogeochemistry of the target rocks beyond to compare these factors with the Mina Bacilândia rocks (Fazenda Nova-GO) in order to assess the genetic similarity of volcano-sedimentary units and deposits associated. The Guarda-Mor target is represented by the Jaupaci metavolcanic rocks sequence presenting bimodal volcanism. This sequence consists in metafelsic rocks like sericite/muscovite quartz schist, phyllite and metarriolites and/or metariodacites with calc-alkaline geochemical signature and metamafic rocks with tholeiitic character formed by actinolite - chlorite schist and chlorite - quartz schist. Besides the package of supracrustal rocks also can be observed the occurrence of a local intrusion syn- to late - tectonic named Granito Subvulcânico. In the study area beyond the marked volcanism also seen an event of crustal melting granitogênese evidenced by the presence of 2 granites at the east and the west of the map, Granito Israelândia and Granito Iporá respectively. Structural analysis both at the macro and micro have identified 3 deformation phases. The types of rock on the region record features in the metamorphic facies top and down. These features were subdivided into 3 metamorphic areas: the east and West areas show thermal metamorphism due to intrusion of adjacente granites while the central domain displays features of regional metamorphism. Gold mineralization of the Guarda –Mor deposit target suggests a possible structural control beyond pronounced the hydrothermal alteration. The mineralization may also be...

Estudo do reservatório de coquinas do grupo Lagoa Feia (Eocretáceo) na acumulação de Linguado, sudoeste da Bacia de Campos

The Linguado Field is located in the extreme southwest portion of Campos Basin. It’s associated with Structural Badejo High and can be divided in two groups of faults: one manly formed by antithetic faults, with NW-SE direction, continuous to Badejo Fault, and another identified by N-S faults. Besides these faults had affected the basement and the stratification of basin, these systems also had contributed to coquina permoporosity development, that show 80% of recoverable oil volume of the field. The carbonate marine sequence, Albian age, it was deposited under the salt. This forms structures as like as pillows and raft as a result of the halocinese. Structurally the Linguado Field coquina has monoclinal direction with east dip, it’s cut by faults with slip up to 50 meters. In addition to structural control, stratigraphy and diagenesis also were important to carbonate trap oil. The identification of recoverable oil levels in the low phase of the coquina from Lagoa Feia Group was done by well data. The seismic 2D and 3D, with the well data, was used to structural interpretation to regional scale either to reservoir scale.

Investigação sobre deformação neotectônica no lineamento Guapiara, região de Guapiara e Jacupiranga

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Elementos estruturais relacionados com a mineralização do eoceno - oligoceno entre Mollebamba e Santo Domingo região de Apurimac, sul do Peru

Pós-graduação em Geociências e Meio Ambiente - IGCE

Geologia do depósito de ouro de C1-Santaluz no greenstone belt do rio Itapicuru, Brasil

Pós-graduação em Geociências e Meio Ambiente - IGCE

DNA block copolymers - synthesis, morphologies and applications

The last decades have witnessed significant and rapid progress in polymer chemistry and molecular biology. The invention of PCR and advances in automated solid phase synthesis of DNA have made this biological entity broadly available to all researchers across biological and chemical sciences. Thanks to the development of a variety of polymerization techniques, macromolecules can be synthesized with predetermined molecular weights and excellent structural control. In recent years these two exciting areas of research converged to generate a new type of nucleic acid hybrid material, consisting of oligodeoxynucleotides and organic polymers. By conjugating these two classes of materials, DNA block copolymers are generated exhibiting engineered material properties that cannot be realized with polymers or nucleic acids alone. Different synthetic strategies based on grafting onto routes in solution or on solid support were developed which afforded DNA block copolymers with hydrophilic, hydrophobic and thermoresponsive organic polymers in good yields. Beside the preparation of DNA block copolymers with a relative short DNA-segment, it was also demonstrated how these bioorganic polymers can be synthesized exhibiting large DNA blocks (>1000 bases) applying the polymerase chain reaction. Amphiphilic DNA block copolymers, which were synthesized fully automated in a DNA synthesizer, self-assemble into well-defined nanoparticles. Hybridization of spherical micelles with long DNA templates that encode several times the sequence of the micelle corona induced a transformation into rod-like micelles. The Watson-Crick motif aligned the hydrophobic polymer segments along the DNA double helix, which resulted in selective dimer formation. Even the length of the resulting nanostructures could be precisely adjusted by the number of nucleotides of the templates. In addition to changing the structural properties of DNA-b-PPO micelles, these materials were applied as 3D nanoscopic scaffolds for organic reactions. The DNA strands of the corona were organized by hydrophobic interactions of the organic polymer segments in such a fashion that several DNA-templated organic reactions proceeded in a sequence specific manner; either at the surface of the micelles or at the interface between the biological and the organic polymer blocks. The yields of reactions employing the micellar template were equivalent or better than existing template architectures. Aside from its physical properties and the morphologies achieved, an important requirement for a new biomaterial is its biocompatibility and interaction with living systems, i.e. human cells. The toxicity of the nanoparticles was analyzed by a cell proliferation assay. Motivated by the non-toxic nature of the amphiphilic DNA block copolymers, these nanoobjects were employed as drug delivery vehicles to target the anticancer drug to a tumor tissue. The micelles obtained from DNA block copolymers were easily functionalized with targeting units by hybridization. This facile route allowed studying the effect of the amount of targeting units on the targeting efficacy. By varying the site of functionalization, i.e. 5’ or 3’, the outcome of having the targeting unit at the periphery of the micelle or in the core of the micelle was studied. Additionally, these micelles were loaded with an anticancer drug, doxorubicin, and then applied to tumor cells. The viability of the cells was calculated in the presence and absence of targeting unit. It was demonstrated that the tumor cells bearing folate receptors showed a high mortality when the targeting unit was attached to the nanocarrier.

An algorithm for controllability in complex networks

In this paper structural controllability of complex networks is anyzed. A new algorithm is proposed which constructs a structural control scheme for a given network by avoiding the absence of dilations and by guaranteeing the accessibility of all nodes. Such accessibility is solved via a wiring procedure; this procedure, based on determining the non-accessible regions of the network, has been improved in this new proposed algorithm. This way, the number of dedicated controllers is reduced with respect to the one provided by previous existing algorithms.

Model of human rhythmic activities on structures

Crowd induced dynamic loading in large structures, such as gymnasiums or stadiums, is usually modelled as a series of harmonic loads which are defined in terms of their Fourier coefficients. Different values of these Fourier coefficients that were obtained from full scale measurements can be found in codes. Recently, an alternative has been proposed, based on random generation of load time histories that take into account phase lags among individuals inside the crowd. Generally the testing is performed on platforms or structures that can be considered rigid because their natural frequencies are higher than the excitation frequencies associated with crowd loading. In this paper we shall present the testing done on a structure designed to be a gymnasium, which has natural frequencies within that range. In this test the gym slab was instrumented with acceleration sensors and different people jumped on a force plate installed on the floor. Test results have been compared with predictions based on the two abovementioned load modelling alternatives and a new methodology for modelling jumping loads has been proposed in order to reduce the difference between experimental and numerical results at high frequency range.

Influence of crowds in the dynamic characteristics of a structure

The interest for modelling of human actions acting on structures has been recurrent since the first accidents on suspension bridges in the nineteenth century like Broughton (1831) in the U.K. or Angers (1850) in France. Stadiums, gymnasiums are other type of structure where the human induced vibration is very important. In these structures appear particular phenomenon like the interaction person-structure (lock-in), the person-person synchronization, and the influence of the mass and damping of the people in the structure behaviour. This work focuses on the latter topic. The dynamic characteristic of a structure can be changed due to the presence of people on it. In order to evaluate these property modifications several testing have been carried out on a structure designed to be a gymnasium. For the test an electro-dynamic shaker was installed in a fixed point of the gym slab and different groups of people were located around the shaker. In each test the number of people was changed and also their posture (standing and sitting). Test data were analyzed and processed to verify modifications in the structure behaviour.

Controlo fuzzy semi-activo para aparelhos de amortecimento variável na protecção sísmica

Trabalho apresentado no 10º Congresso Nacional de Sismologia e Engenharia Sísmica, 20-22 abril de 2016, Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal

Lessons from monitoring the performance of highway bridges

Peer reviewed

Updating of an instrumented building model considering amplitude dependence of dynamic resonant properties extracted from seismic response records

The authors would like to express their gratitude to their supporters. Drs Jim Cousins, S.R. Uma and Ken Gledhill facilitated this research by providing access to GeoNet seismic data and structural building information. Piotr Omenzetter’s work within the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Centre for Safety and Reliability Engineering at the University of Aberdeen is supported by Lloyd’s Register Foundation. The Foundation helps to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and the application of research.