Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes

Brazilian mineralogist, mining geologist, and mineral dealer

Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes (5 October 1950 – 9 July 2014) was a Brazilian geologist, mineralogist and mineral dealer. He collected the material which was used in the discovery of the mineral menezesite, which was named in his honor. He was born in São Paulo.

Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes

Menezes died on 9 July 2014 in São Paulo, aged 63.[1]

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  1. "MM Gerdau presta homenagem a Luiz Menezes" (in Portuguese). Museu das Minas e do Metal. 7 July 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.

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