HaliteRosia Poieni Mine, Apuseni District, Alba Co., Romania
Photo: willy Latitude: 46°20'N
Longitude: 23°10'E
Porphyry copper deposit: Cu, (Mo, Se, Au, Ag).
Intrusive host rocks (amphibole diorite and later multi-phase sequence of dioritic (Late Miocene diorite) porphyry intrusive units and breccia units) show argillic, alunitic and propyllitic alteration, as well as silicification.
Mineralization (disseminated sulfides) occurs in the central potassic alteration and quartz stockwork veined cylindrical central zone.
Veins with a clustered organization.
Open pit sulfide reserves : 126 000 tons Cu.
0.5 g Au /t ore.
Located about 4 km NE of Rosia Montana.
References
- GHIURCA, V. (1998): Monti Apuseni, tellurio e tellururi di oro e argento. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 1998 (2), 23-26.
- Mineralium Deposita (2004) 39:173-188
- Kouzmanov, Kalin; von Quadt, Albrecht; Peytcheva, Irena; Harris, Caroline; Heinrich, Christoph A.; Rosu, Emilian; O'Connor, Gary. (2005): Rosia Poieni porphyry Cu-Au and Rosia Montana epithermal Au-Ag deposits, Apuseni Mts., Romania: timing of magmatism and related mineralisation. Geokhimiya, Mineralogiya i Petrologiya 43, 113-117.
- 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.
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