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Muscovite from
Elatsite Mine, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elatsite Mine, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1002189
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1002189:9
GUID (UUID V4):399f2b19-854e-4046-9e13-524dbe556acf
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
2.4km (1.5 miles) ⓘNegarshtitsa West deposit, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
5.2km (3.2 miles) ⓘVozdol deposit, Chelopech Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
6.0km (3.7 miles) ⓘDolna Kamenitsa vein, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
6.1km (3.8 miles) ⓘSharlo dere deposit, Chelopech Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
6.7km (4.2 miles) ⓘChelopech Au-Cu Mine, Chelopech Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
6.8km (4.2 miles) ⓘGorna Kamenitsa deposit, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
6.9km (4.3 miles) ⓘEtropole deposit, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
6.9km (4.3 miles) ⓘSvishti Plaz Mine, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
20.8km (12.9 miles) ⓘMedet Mine, Panagyurishte, Panagyurishte Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria
24.1km (15.0 miles) ⓘAssarel Mine, Panagyurishte, Panagyurishte Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
association in the Southern Panagyurishte District, Bulgaria: the paired Vlaykov Vruh and Elshitsa deposits...Panagyurishte magmato-tectonic corridor of central Bulgaria. The deposits were formed along the SW flank ...Mineralogy and Crystallography, BAS, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria K. Bogdanov Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”...Ohridski”, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Bd., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria of the Elshitsa volcano-intrusive complex and are spatially...part of the Panagyurishte district (Chelopech, Elatsite, Assarel). Magma chemistry and isotopic signature
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metals at the Assarel Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposit, Bulgaria, as Supporting Information for the Development...costin@rice.edu Asarel Medet AD, 4500 Panagyurishte, Bulgaria; divanov@asarel.com (D.I.); vstoilov@asarel.com...deposit in the Srednogorie metallogenic zone (Bulgaria) constrains the setting and character of precious...scanning technology being developed as part of the X-MINE project. Scanning electron microscopy–energy dispersive...Ag-Te-S-Se minerals; hydrothermal metallogeny; Assarel; X-MINE 1. Introduction Porphyry-type deposits are the
Report (volume)
The Elatsite porphyry copper deposit in the Panagyurishte ore district, Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria: U-Pb...base-precious metal ore district, eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria 137 KROHE, A. & MPOSKOS, E. Multiple generations...dykes bracketing the time of formation of the Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au deposit to demonstrate that the...Madjarovo volcanic complex and ore district in Bulgaria began at 32.7 Ma and finished by 32.2 Ma, at which...Belt of Southwest Iberia, set within the larger province of the western Variscides. Tornos et al. show
Report (chapter)
Bosnia through Serbia and Macedonia to southern Bulgaria and Greece. A second type of mineralization is...sulphide O ~" ‱ ..... ‱ Country Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria Serbia Serbia Serbia Romania Slovakia...Slovakia Slovakia Austria Austria Austria Chelopech Elatsite Radka Bor Majdanpek Veliki Krivelj Ocna de Fier/Dognecea... Metals/mineral Macedonia Greece Greece Bulgaria Bulgaria Macedonia Macedonia Greece Serbia Buchim...Oligocene-Miocene Serbomacedonian-Rhodope metallogenetic belt Bulgaria Burgas district Late Cretaceous magmatic-metallogenetic
Book
-- ïżœ rn· ..__ EARTH AND MAN NATIONAL MUSEUM SOFIA y GENERAL INFORMATION The Earth and Man National... Mineral Resources of Bul­ garia, Minerals of Bulgaria, Gems and Ornamental Stones, and Mate­ rials....Galleries and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture in Bulgaria. The museum was founded on January I, 1986 and...through The National Donation Fund "13 Centuiies of Bulgaria". 730 donors including 207 companies and state...Elshitsa, (x5 ) The museum is located in downtown Sofia in a restored building, a cultural monument from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
porphyry copper mineralizations of Greece and Bulgaria by Eliopoulos and EconomouEliopoulos Ćœ1991., Eliopoulos...northwest through Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and northern Greece in the southeast. The southern...by K-feldspar, biotite, quartz, clinochlorite, muscovite, kaolinite and epidote., the oxidation zone Ćœmartitized...malachite, hematite, magnetite . Alteration type Bulgaria (Srednogorie zone ) Medet potassic– propylitic–...propylitic– silification Elatsite main minerals: quartz, orthoclase Elatsite pyrite, chalcopyrite Tsar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
, 1998). (C) Euhedral quartz crystal from the Elatsite Cu–Mo–Au porphyry deposit (Stefanova et al., 2014...large intrusion that generated a polymetallic ore province in Eastern Australia. We investigated the sample...in the respective growth zones. Chlorite and muscovite occur in the outermost zone (Q4). Homogenization...measurable ïŹ‚uid inclusions. The Late Cretaceous Elatsite porphyry Cu–Au deposit is part of the Apuseni...Stefanova et al., 2014). Results from Yankee Lode (A), Elatsite (B) and Bingham Canyon (C) suggest incursion of
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
alteration geochemistry: The Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au-PGE deposit, Bulgaria Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2018...evolution in a distal Pb-Zn skarn body, Madan, Bulgaria P 2.15 Higgins O., Caricchi L., Blundy J., Melekhova...alteration geochemistry: The Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au-PGE deposit, Bulgaria P 2.33 Schaltegger U., Ovtcharova...the analysed white mica can be classified as muscovite (K: 0.93±.03, 1σ, Si: 3.1±.1, VIAl: 1.8±.1; apfu...three dominant cation exchanges, 1) paragonite-muscovite [K—Na], 2) Tschermak [Si+(Mg2+, Fe2+)—2Al] and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Fengshan porphyry–skarn Cu–Mo deposit, Hubei Province, Eastern China Minfang Wang a,b,c,⁎, Jens Gutzmer...and Copper King Mine in the USA, Skouries porphyry deposit in Greece, Elatsite in Bulgaria, and Santo Tomas...been identiïŹed in some of these deposits, such as Elatsite, Majdanpek, Mamut, Biga and Skouries. Since then...Anqing area, consisting of felsic gneiss and muscovite quartz schist with intercalated amphibolite (Chang...stage stockwork mineralization of the Elatsite Cu–Au deposit, Bulgaria, has been attributed to a direct involvement
Report (issue)
chalcopyrite, and bornite in the porphyry deposit at Elatsite, Bulgaria. Tin has been reported from some deposits...typically contain sericite, which is composed of muscovite that has a strong 2.20-ÎŒm absorption feature....ratios and methods, but different band thresholds, muscovite-rich, phyllic-altered rocks have also been regionally...2003). Alunite, kaolinite, pyrophyllite, and muscovite were mapped at the Red Mountain and Sunnyside...oxide minerals are quartz, K-feldspar, biotite, muscovite (sericite), magnetite, chlorite, anhydrite, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
located in Portugal, is the second largest tungsten mine in Europe and has been active for ca. 130 years...151 ±8.5 Molybdenite Re-Os [46] Fine-grained muscovite granite Fine-grained porphyritic granite W Wolframite... W 6.7 Wolframite; Scheelite Fine-grained muscovite granite 158.5 ± 3.8 Molybdenite Re-Os [51]... 15.4 Wolframite; Cassiterite Fine-grained muscovite granite 150.2 ± 2.2 Molybdenite Re-Os [53]...metasedimentary Fine-grained granite 148.1 ± 0.8 Muscovite Ar-Ar [59] W Wolframite Fine-grained granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and uneconomic ore mineralization. Although the mine at Bučim has been known since ancient times, it...composed of biotite, muscovite, (two-mica), and gneisses, amphibolites, muscovite schists, and other kind...1979. The annual exploitation capability of the mine is 4 Mt of ore. At present, ore with 0.21 % Cu,...at Bor in Serbia and Pirdop in Bulgaria. At the moment, the Bučim Mine is owned by the Solway Investment...smallest deposit of this type currently operated as a mine. The successful mining of this deposit for many
Report (issue)
Hineralogical General Heeting Association - Varna, Bulgaria 1982 GUIDE-BOOK 2 CENTRALSREDNOGORIE 26-29...Tsar Asen, lElatsite and Đ° consideraĐ«e number of ore manifestations...they slowly subside ·and finally sink into the Sofia complex graben. Along the boundary of the depression...Paleozoic_and Mesozoic -sediments which also sink into the Sofia graben. The crystalline schists of the Ihtiman Đ«ĐŸŃk...extends from the northeastern periphery of the Sofia graben ~s far as th~ northwestern pe:rfphery of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manuscript Zircon U-Pb, molybdenite Re-Os and muscovite Ar-Ar geochronology of the Yashan W-Mo and Xiatongling... X. Jing, Zircon U-Pb, molybdenite Re-Os and muscovite Ar-Ar geochronology of the Yashan W-Mo and Xiatongling...pertain. Zircon U-Pb, molybdenite Re-Os and muscovite Ar-Ar geochronology of the Yashan W-Mo and Xiatongling...deposits in the Wugongshan mining district in Jiangxi Province, South China. Both deposits contain stockwork...2.8 Ma and 156.4 ± 8.7 Ma, respectively. Two muscovite samples from greisen W-Mo ores and W-bearing stockwork
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit. Altered rocks composed of biotite + muscovite ± K- 99 feldspar accompany bornite–chalcopyrite...titanite, etc. (Fig. 3i). It is represented by muscovite-phengite series (Mg+Fe 253 0.2 to 0.4 apfu)...with 255 galena, and sphalerite, belongs to muscovite-paragonite series (X(Na) from 0.1 to 0.8). In...Bakhtina (1991) within rare chlorite-carbonate-muscovite- 260 paragonite-quartz alteration zones. The...deposit (Kovalenker et al., 2010), Elatsite Cu-porphyry deposit, Bulgaria 362 (Tarkian et al., 2003), Petropavlovskoe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the eastern part of the Central Rhodopean Dome (Bulgaria): U–Pb, Rb–Sr and 40Ar/39Ar timing of emplacement...Crystallography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 2 Institute of Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral...Faculty of Geology and Geography, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria 4 Institute of Geology and Paleontology...Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Received June 2, 2003; revised version accepted...within the core of the Central Rhodopean dome, Bulgaria. The age of the granitoid protolith is 300  11
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic zircons from the Eastern Srednogorie, Bulgaria S. Georgiev a,⁎, A. von Quadt a, C.A. Heinrich...of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev St., 1113 SoïŹa, Bulgaria a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...evolution a b s t r a c t Eastern Srednogorie in Bulgaria is the widest segment of an extensive magmatic...from south Romania through east Serbia and across Bulgaria (Fig. 1) and hosts Europe's major Cu‐porphyry...Mts. Mts. arpathians Romania Moesian Platform Bulgaria 44°N 44°N Black Sea Black Sea ia lav gos
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
separated from the RMB 1 Simplified map of Galmoy Mine, Ireland showing the major orebodies samples by...thank Arcon Mines for allowing access to the Galmoy Mine. Imperial College London, University College Dublin...Processes controlling arsenic dispersion in acid mine drainage from Mount Bischoff, Western Tasmania A...rehabilitated, with fresh sulphides exposed in surface mine workings. Acid drainage is being generated by sulphide...arsenic in acid mine drainage (AMD) and its associated sediment at the Mount Bischoff mine site in western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
association grading outward to illite–smectite–muscovite–pyrite and peripherally to chlorite–calcite–pyrite...from phyllic alteration and includes quartz, muscovite, illite, siderite, and pyrite (Fig. 3e). In addition...porphyrytype quartz veins from the Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au deposit (Bulgaria; Stefanova et al. 2014); only...(Zajacz et al. 2008) and from porphyry veins in the Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au-PGE deposit (Stefanova et al. 2014)...porphyry-type veins from the Elatsite Cu-Au-PGE porphyry deposit (Bulgaria); data are from Stefanova et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz‐pyrite‐molybdenite‐muscovite ± fluorite, and Stage III quartz‐fluorite ± muscovite. Four types of fluid... (K‐feldspar–quartz), phyllic (quartz–pyrite–muscovite), argillic (kaolinite), mainly comprises gneiss...NE‐trending subsidiary faults and fractures muscovite, and fluorite (Figure 2g–r). Ore textures are...with an irregular shape and an outcrop area muscovite ± fluorite veins and/or veinlets and represents...ages from 1,773 to 1,821 Ma (Figure 2j,l–o). Muscovite occurs in open spaces of quartz veins and (Miao
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
members were made for plagioclase, chlorite, and muscovite. In terms of atoms per formula unit (apfu) it... potassic alteration, sericitization (mostly muscovite after plagioclase and orthoclase) and chloritization...light-colored minerals in TPPL such as quartz, muscovite (as sericite), orthoclase, plagioclase, calcite...light-colored minerals in TPPL such as quartz, muscovite (as sericite), orthoclase, plagioclase, calcite...Alday et al. [16] found that for samples from the Elatsite porphyry-type deposit, pXRF overestimates Fe and
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Ostrosi Romania by V. Ianovici and M. Borcos Bulgaria by B. Bogdanov Greece by G. Marinos Cyprus by..._ Belgium; Southeast Europe includes Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia;...metallogenic prounce The Dinaric metallogenic province The western Macedonian district Iron ore deposits...rock ; ‘ ; : Serbo—Macedonian _—_metallogenic The province The pre-Devonian merallGeeuie epoch The Hercynian...Mineral deposits Internal zones External zones Bulgaria by B. Bogdanov Introduction : Structural netallogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pd contents (Santo Tomas II, Philippines; Elatsite, Bulgaria; Bozshakol, Kazakhstan; Kalmakyr, Uzbekistan)...albite–chlorite– quartz–muscovite, (4) carbonate–tourmaline–albite– quartz–muscovite, and (5) quartz–illite... Au-Ag-Te-Se minerals in the Elatsite porphyry–copper deposit, Bulgaria, Bulg. Acad. Scie. Geochem.,...volcanic-hosted Au-Cu epithermal deposit, Srednogorie, Bulgaria, Miner. Deposita, 2002, vol. 37, pp. 614−629....fluid-inclusion petrography of the elatsite porphyry copper deposit, bulgaria, Miner. Deposita, 2003, vol.
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Refining the Classification Using McCreedy West Mine and Podolsky Project Case Studies 163-180 C.E.G...Dyke, Zimbabwe - Case Study of the Hartley Platinum Mine A.H. Wilson, R.T. Brown 409-429 20. The Platinova...REFINING THE CLASSIFICATION: USING McCREEDY WEST MINE, AND PODOLSKY PROJECT CASE STUDIES C.E.G. Farrow...DYKE, ZIMBABWE – CASE STUDY OF THE HARTLEY PLATINUM MINE A.H. Wilson, R.T. Brown INTRODUCTION EXPLORATION...of the MSZ Nature of the MSZ at Hartley Platinum Mine PGE Distribution in the Ore Zone Stratigraphic PGE
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Mesozoic southeastern coastal volcanic belt of Fujian Province, South China (Fig. 1A). The district covers a...Cu-Au deposit, known as the largest exploited gold mine in China since its discovery in the 1980s. Pervasive...(2018) used a muscovite 40Ar/39Ar age (113.4 ± 1.1 Ma) of a pre-ore pyrite-bearing muscovite veinlet, and...Nonetheless, the ambiguous description of the muscovite samples and the principle of using detrital zircon...post-ore granite porphyry sample from underground mine workings. Feldspar phenocrysts were partially altered
 
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