Chelopech Au-Cu Mine, Chelopech, Sofiya Oblast (Sofia Oblast), Bulgaria

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Cu-Au mine, located 45 km east of Sofia (65 km according to other web sources).
Epithermal high-sulphidation gold-enargite deposit in the Panagyurishte metallogenetic district, Srednogorie zone, Alpine-Carpathians-Balkan metallogenic belt.

References

- Kostov et al. (1964): Minerals of Bulgaria.
- Marazova N., V. Breskovska (1993): Mineral succession in Chelopech deposit. Ann. Univ. Sofia, Geol. Geogr. Fac., 86, I, Geologie 135-144.
- Georgieva, S., Velinova, N., Petrunov, R., Moritz, R. & Chambefort, I. (2002). Aluminium phosphate-sulphate minerals in the Chelopech Cu-Au deposit: Spatial and temporal development, chemistry and genetic significance. Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology (Bulgarian journal), 39, 39-51.
- Moritz, R., Kouzmanov, K. & Petrunov, R. (2004): Late Cretaceous Cu–Au epithermal deposits of the Panagyurishte district, Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria. Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology, 84, 79-99.
- Chambefort, I. & Moritz, R. (2006). Late Cretaceous structural control and Alpine overprint of the high-sulphidation Cu-Au epithermal Chelopech deposit, Srednogorie belt, Bulgaria. Mineralium Deposita, 41, 259-280.
- Chambefort, I., and Moritz, R. (2007): Late Cretaceous structural control and Alpine overprint of the high-sulfidation Cu–Au epithermal Chelopech deposit, Srednogorie belt, Bulgaria. Mineralium Deposita 42, 665-690.
- Chambefort, I., Moritz, R. & Von Quadt, A. (2007). Petrology, geochemistry and U-Pb geochronology of magmatic rocks from the high-sulphidation epithermal Chelopech deposit, Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria. Mineralium Deposita, 42, in press.

External Links

http://www.ame.com.au/mines/au/Chelopech.htm

Mineral List

Altaite Alunite Anatase Ankerite Baryte Bismuthinite Bornite Celadonite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Colusite Covellite Diaspore

Dickite Digenite Enargite Epidote Eucairite Famatinite Fluorite Galena Gallite Gold var: Electrum Goldfieldite Gypsum Hemusite (TL)

Idaite Kaolinite Kesterite Kostovite (TL) Luzonite Marcasite 'Melnikovite' Muscovite var: Sericite Nagyágite Pyrite Pyrophyllite Quartz var: Chalcedony Renierite

Rutile Schirmerite Sphalerite Stannoidite Stibiocolusite (TL) Sylvanite Tellurium Tellurobismuthite Tennantite Tetradymite Wittichenite Zunyite

54 entries listed. 49 valid minerals. 3 type localities (valid minerals).