Medet Mine, Panagyurishte, Panagyurishte (Panagurishte) Obshchina, Pazardzhik (Pazardjik) Oblast, Bulgaria

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Porphyry copper deposit. The mine produces 8 million tons/year of ore.

References

- Mining Annual Review (1985): 526.
- Strashimirov, S., Petrunov, R., and Kanazirski, M. (2002): Porphyry-copper mineralisation in the central Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria. Mineralium Deposita 37, 587-598.
- PEYTCHEVA, I., VON QUADT, A., HEINRICH, C.A., NEDIALKOV, R., NEUBAUER, F. & MORITZ, R. (2007): The Medet and Assarel Cu-porphyry deposits in Central Srednogorie, SE Europe: were they a common magmatic and hydrothermal system? In: Andrews, C. et al.: Proceedings of the Ninth Biennal Meeting of the Society for Geology applied to Mineral Deposits Dublin, Ireland 20th-23rd August 2007, 881-884.
- Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C. (2008): Porphyry copper deposits of the world: Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008. US Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155.
- Peytcheva, I. et al. (2009): U-Pb dating, Hf-isotope characteristics and trace-REE-patterns of zircons from Medet porphyry copper deposit, Bulgaria: implications for timing, duration and sources of ore-bearing magmatism. Mineralogy and Petrology 96, 19-41.

Mineral List

Actinolite Albite Anhydrite 'Apatite' Azurite Biotite Bornite Carrollite Chalcanthite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Colusite

Copper Covellite Cuprite 'Davidite' Digenite Djurleite Epidote Fluorite Galena 'Garnet' Goethite Gold var: Electrum

Gypsum Hematite var: Specularite Hessite Ilmenite 'K Feldspar var: Adularia' Limonite Magnetite Malachite Molybdenite Muscovite var: Sericite Pseudobrookite Pyrite

Pyrite var: Bravoite var: Cobaltoan Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite Sulvanite Tenorite Tetradymite Vaesite Zeolite Group

51 entries listed. 39 valid minerals.