Siderite deposit, hosted by a Carboniferous sedimentary complex within the Innner Dinarides.
Stratabound replacement-type ore bodies in limestone blocks and siderite-sulfides veins in shale.
The ore field includes four open-cast mines: Adamuša, Tomašica, Omarska, Vidrenjak.
Located near Ljubija, southwest of Prijedor.
Mining can be dated back to the sixth century BC. Industrial production commenced in 1916 (apart from iron, the deposit was also worked for zinc, lead, baryte and fluorite).
References
- Katzer (1909-1911)
- Koechlin, R. (1922): I. Über einige Mineralien von Ljubija bei Prijedor in Bosnien. Tschermaks MPM, 35, 1-12.
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 174, 1003.
- Mining Annual Review (1985), 527.
- Palinkaš, L., and Jurkovic, I. (1994): Genesis of Ljubija Siderite Deposit: Metallogenic Implications. Abstracts of the Second Meeting of the IGCP Project No 356: Plate Tectonics and Metallogeny in the East Carpathians and Apuseni Mts., June 7-19, 1994, p. 28.
- Palinkaš, S.S. et al. (2009): Mineralium Deposita 44, 893-913.
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