Latitude: 48°43'59"N
Longitude: 19°19'0"E
Farbište, Poniky, okres Banská Bystrica, Banskobystrický kraj, Slovenská republika
Small deposit with mineralized 2 to 6 m thick impregnation zone in rhyolites and rhyolite tuffs of the Werfen series with variegated oxidation zone. Rare primary ores are tennantite, chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite. Classic locality of rare arsenates of copper, especially euchroite and tyrolite.
Mined in the 19th century; re-studied by exploration work in 1959-1960.
Located around 4 km NE of Poniky (12 km E of Banská Bystrica).
References
- Slavkay M., 1961: Ložiská polymetalických rúd pri Ponikách. Mineralia Slovaca, 3, 11, 181-211.
- Láznička P., 1965: Regionálně mineralogické poměry na středním Slovensku. Rozmn. prědnáška, Spol. Múz. a Nár. muz., Praha, 35. (in Czech)
- Řídkošil T., 1981: Arzeničnany mědi z Farbiště na středním Slovensku. Čas. Mineral. Geol., 26, 92. (in Czech)
- Hyršl J., Korbel P., Šourek J., 1984: Cornubit a cornwallit z Farbiště u Ponické Lehotky. Čas. Mineral. Geol., 29, 4, 433-434. (in Czech)
- Řídkošil T., 2007: Sekundární minerály mědi na lokalitě Farbiště u Ponik. Minerál, 15, 5, 447-450. (in Czech)
- Števko M., Bálintová T., Turecký T., 2010: Euchroit-Neufunde und seltene Kupfermineralien aus Farbiste bei Poniky, Slowakei. Lapis, 35, 6, 25-29; 70. (in German)
- Števko M., Sejkora J., Bačík P., 2011: Mineralogy and origin of supergene mineralization at the Farbište ore occurrence near Poniky, central Slovakia. Journal of Geosciences, 57, 3, 273-298.
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