Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian mineralogist, mining geologist, and mineral dealer
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Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil
About Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes
- Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes (5 October 1950 – 9 July 2014) was a geologist, mineralogist and mineral dealer from Brazil.
- He was born in São Paulo. He collected the material that was used for the discovery of new mineral was named in his honor as menezesite.
- He also contributed extensively in mineralogy of Brazil, participating in the discovery of up to seven mineral species.He trained as a mining engineer.
- He began working in the mine Jacupiranga in mining operations, crushing, and as a process engineer at the plant flotation of apatite.
- Worked his way up in the company where he worked for 15 years, to be the director of the division of engineering and development.
- In 1988 he founded the company Luiz Menezes Mining and began trading with minerals.He was a founder of the Club of Sciences Campo Belo (Clube de Ciencias Campo Belo) in 1961 and the Brazilian Association of Mineralogy (Associação Brasileira Mineralogy) in 1965.
- He was also director of the Brazilian Association of Gemology and Mineralogy, and president of the Friends of the Museum of Geosciences USP.
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