Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa

Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa (born in Alto Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil) usually known as Professor Licínio is a retired geologist. He is Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Geociências of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

Early career

He graduated as a mining and civil engineer from the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto in 1941. He then entered the Brazilian National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM), working for the Brazilian Geological Survey where he carried out a variety of mapping and geological tasks for many decades. He acquired through public examination the chair of 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.

World War II and subsequent work

During 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 Licínio focused on the exploration of strategic minerals in Brazil. In the USGS-DNPM joint program led by John van Norstrand Dorr II, was part of the team which for the first time mapped the Iron Quadrangle of Minas Gerais) from 1945 to 1965, with the use at that time of modern methods of aerial photography base maps. In the late sixties Professor Darcy Ribeiro invited Licínio to be one of the educators in charge, together with professors Viktor Leinz(University of São Paulo), Othon H. Leonardos (University of Rio de Janeiro) and others, to plan the creation of the Institute of Geosciences of the University of Brasilia

He has a Master of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and a doctorate from the former Universidade do Brazil. He was granted a scholarship from the Brazilian Research Council in order to get full experience of the mapping of granite-migmatitic terrains in Scandinavia. In his honor a mineral was named barbosalite by M. L. Lindelberg and William T. Pecora.

He is a full member of the Brazilian Geological Society, where he did voluntary work for the editorial board of the Revista Brasileira de Geociências. He published papers on field geology, stratigraphy, historical geology, economic geology, geochemistry, and on sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic petrology.

Publications

• 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.

Sources

• 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.