Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa

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Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa (born in Alto Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is best known by his students and friends as Professor Licínio. He is presently retired, and is Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Geociências of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais(UFMG) and one of most distinguished geoscientists of Brazil. He graduated as a mining and civil engineer by the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto, class of 1941. He soon entered the Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral- DNPM- (then acting as the Brazilian Geological Survey) where he carried out a variety of mapping and geological works for many decades. He acquired through public examination the “chair” on General Geology and Petrology at the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto. He was able to divide his working time with projects of the Brazilian Geological Survey and his teaching duties at the Escola de Minas. During the World War II, through a joint agreement between the DNPM and the USA Board of Economic Warfare, and later with the United States Geological Survey(USGS). Professor Licínio did many works. These works focused on the exploration of strategic minerals in Brazil (see concise list of publications). He did outstanding work in the USGS-DNPM joint program led by John van Norstrand Dorr II, when he integrated the team which for the first time mapped the Iron Quadrangle (Quadrilátero Ferrífero) of Minas Gerais) from 1945 to 1965, with the use at that time of modern methods of aerophotogrametric base maps. In the late sixties Professor Darcy Ribeiro invited Professor Licínio to be one of the educators in charge, together with professors Viktor Leinz(University of São Paulo(USP), Othon H. Leonardos(University of Rio de Janeiro(UFRJ) and others, to plan the creation of the Institute of Geosciences of the University of Brasilia(IGC-UnB). Soon after the creation of IGC-UnB, he contributed, as Visiting Professor for some time, till this Institute got his own group of resident professors. During this epoch, but for a longer time, so did Professor Viktor Leinz. Professor Licínio has a Master Science Degree by the Pennsylvania State University and a Doctor degree by the former Universidade do Brazil. He was granted a scholarship from the Brazilian Research Council (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa – CNPq) in order to get a full experience with the mapping of granite-migmatitic terrains in Scandinavia. In his honor a mineral was named barbosalite by M. L. Lindelberg and William T. Pecora. Professor Licínio influenced his students particularly by stressing the scientific method and the key role of observation of geological exposures to infer their internal features and putting altogether into the big regional picture. He always did so with his crystal-clear logical thinking, his way of impeccable speaking Portuguese and several other languages, and his fine sense of humor, British style. He his a full member of the Brazilian Geological Society, where he did voluntary work for the Editorial Board of the Revista Brasileira de Geociências; as member of this organization he worked in many committees of various Brazilian geological congresses. Professor Licínio published more than one hundred of papers, lectures, conferences, besides various volumes of lessons on field geology, stratigraphy, historical geology, economic geology, geochemistry, and on sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic petrology.

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• Barbosa, A. L. M., 1943. Mica o mineral da victoria. Observações Economicas e Financeiras, Year VII, no. 94.
• Barbosa, A. L. M., 1944. Mica in Governador Valadares. Mineração e Melalurgia, vol.8, no. 43, p.29-34.
• Barbosa, A. L. M., 1956. A formação de engenheiros de minas e geólogos para a economia mineral do Brasil. Revista da Escola de Minas, vol. 20, no.5.
• Barbosa, A.L.M., 1961. Tectônica do Quadrilátero Ferrífero. Semana de Estudos Geológicos do Quadrilátero Ferrífero. Sociedade de Intercâmbio Cultural e Estudos Geológicos (SICEG), Boletim nº 1, p. 49-53. Ouro Preto.
• Barbosa, A. L. M., 1968. Contribuições recentes à geologia do Quadrilátero Ferrífero. Instituto de. Geociências, UFMG, 1985: 26p
• Barbosa, A. L. M. and Grossi Sad, J. H. 1973. Tectonic control of sedimentation and trace-element distribution in iron ores of central Minas Gerais, Brazil. In: SYMPOSIUM ON GENESIS OF PRECAMBRIAN IRON AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS, Kiev, 1970.Proceedings... Kiev, UNESCO, p. 125-131.
• Barbosa, A. L. M and Grossi Sad, J.H. 1973. The tectonic control of sedimentation in a major Precambrian basin of iron deposition, exemplified from central Minas Gerais, Brazil. In: Genesis of Precambrian iron and manganese deposits: Proceedings of the Kiev Symposium, 1970. Paris , UNESCO.
• Barbosa, A. L. M and Grossi Sad, J.H. 1983. Petrografia dos charnockitos e rochas afins ao longo da divisa Minas Gerais – Rio de Janeiro. Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia, Núcleo de Minas Gerais, Anais do II Simpósio de Geologia de Minas Gerais, Boletim no.3, pp. 63-74.
• Barbosa, A. L. M. , Ladeira, E. A. and Ferreira, C. M. 1983. Excursão geológica nos arredores de Ouro Preto e Marina: Estratigrafia e tectônica dos supergrupos Rio das Velhas e Minas nos Distritos de Ouro Preto e de Mariana e jazida de topázip imperial de Vermelhão, Saramenha. Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia, Núcleo de Minas Gerais, Anais do II Simpósio de Geologia de Minas Gerais, Boletim no.3, p. 478-482.
• Dorr, J. V. N II and Barbosa, A. L. M., 1963. Geology and ore deposits of the Itabira District, Minas Gerais, Brazil.U. S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 341-C. Washington,DC, 110p.
• Dorr, J. V. N. II, Guild, P. W., and Barbosa, A. L. M., 1952. The iron ore deposits of Brasil: Origin of the Brazilian iron ores, Symposium sur les gisements de fer du Monde, v.1, p. 286-298, XIX International Geological Congress, Algiers.
• Dorr, J.V.N.II, Herz. N., Barbosa, A.L.M. and Simmons, G.C.,1959/1961.Outline of the Geology of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Brasil, Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral. Publicação Especial 1, 120p. Rio de Janeiro *:(In Engl. and Port.).
• Park, C.F., Dorr, J. V. N. II, Guild, P.W. and Barbosa, A. L. M., 1951. Manganese ores of Brazil. Economic Geology, vol.46, no.1.
• Pecora, W.T. and Barbosa, A.L.M., 1944. Jazidas de níquel e cobalto em São José do Tocantins, Goiás. Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral, Div. Fom. Prod. Mineral, Rio de Janeiro. Boletim. 64: 70p.
• Pecora, W.T., Barbosa, A.L.M., Switzer, C., Myers, A.T. 1950. Structure and mineralogy of the Golconda pegmatite. American Mineralogist, vol.35, nos 9 and 10.
• Pecora, W.T., Klepper, M.R., Larrabee, D.M. (Geological Survey) and Barbosa, A.L.M., and Fraya, R. (Divisão de Fomento , Brazil). 1950. Mica deposits in Minas Gerais, Brazil. United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 964-C, 305pp. + ill.

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• A Escola de Minas:1876-1966(1966). Published in Portuguese by Escola de Minas Printing Offices.Ouro Preto,Minas Gerais, 512p. References on Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa: pages 105-106.
• A Escola de Minas:1876-1976(1976).Primeiro Centenário(Fist Centenary). Published in Portuguese by Escola de Minas Printing Offices.Ouro Preto,Minas Gerais,Volume I, 208p. References on Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa: pages 81.

• Personal knowledge by the author.