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Sphalerite from
Cavnic Mine, Cavnic, Maramureș County, Romania


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz926 photos of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyrite635 photos of Sphalerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Calcite616 photos of Sphalerite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite209 photos of Sphalerite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Dolomite201 photos of Sphalerite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Siderite144 photos of Sphalerite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Galena115 photos of Sphalerite associated with Galena at this locality.
Limonite58 photos of Sphalerite associated with Limonite at this locality.
Pyrrhotite36 photos of Sphalerite associated with Pyrrhotite at this locality.
Baryte33 photos of Sphalerite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cavnic Mine, Cavnic, Maramureș County, Romania
Photo GalleryView Gallery (60 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46946
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46946:1
GUID (UUID V4):b4940d31-4422-47c4-b699-836d6d1d196e
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
2.7km (1.7 miles) Suior Mine, Cavnic, Maramureș County, Romania
8.2km (5.1 miles) Jereapan, Budești, Maramureș County, Romania
9.8km (6.1 miles) Șurdești, Șurdești village, Șișești, Maramureș County, Romania
11.0km (6.8 miles) Baia Sprie mine, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
11.6km (7.2 miles) Minei Hill open pit, Baia Sprie mine, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
11.7km (7.3 miles) Johan Hell Mine, Băiuț, Maramureș County, Romania
11.7km (7.3 miles) Văratec deposit, Băiuț, Maramureș County, Romania
15.2km (9.4 miles) Cizma Mine (Cisma deposit), Poiana Botizii, Maramureș County, Romania
16.6km (10.3 miles) Coasta Ursului mine, Poiana Botizii, Băiuț, Maramureș County, Romania
16.6km (10.3 miles) Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Maramureș County, Romania
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Institute of Romania Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Damian, President of the Society of Economic Geology of Romania Editor...France Marian Munteanu, Geological Institute of Romania Essaid Bilal, Ecole des Mines, St. Etienne, France...Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania Ioan Pintea, Geological Institute of Romania Grigore Buia, University...University of Petroşani, Romania Giorgios Christofides, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Floarea...Cluj-Napoca, North University Center of Baia Mare, Romania Gheorghe Damian, Technical University Cluj-Napoca
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20560 pohwatp@si.edu Vgvtcjgftkvg Cavnic, Romania T he minerals of the tennantite group are...complex tetrahedrite crystal on matrix from Cavnic, Romania. Carnegie Museum of Natural History specimen...National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...associated with, among others, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite, calcite, dolomite... cuprite, covellite, pyrite, bournonite, and sphalerite after tetrahedrite (Palache, Berman, Figure 2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold /polymetallic district, Inner Carpathians, Romania Received: 20 November 2000 / Accepted: 16 November...Springer-Verlag 2002 Abstract The Baia Mare district (Romania) represents a complex segment of the Neogene/Quaternary...the largest deposits. Ore fluids at Baia Sprie, Cavnic and Sasar deposits had temperatures of 320 to 150...IPEG Maramures, Victoriei 146, Baia Mare 4800, Romania progressively lower temperatures. The halogen...extends from Slovakia, Hungary and Ukraine to Romania, includes some important epithermal goldpolymetallic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cirotan (Indonesia), Orcopampa (Peru) and Cavnic (Romania). In these deposits, the manganiferous minerals...boiling, Cirotan, Indonesia, Orcopampa, Peru, Cavnic, Romania. SOMMAIRE Les minéraux de manganèse, fréquemment...soufre, Cirotan (Indonésie), Orcopampa (Pérou) et Cavnic (Roumanie). Dans ces gisements, les minéraux de...ébullition, Cirotan, Indonésie, Orcopampa, Pérou, Cavnic, Roumanie. INTRODUCTION GEOLOGICAL SETTING Manganiferous...deposition. In the Cavnic mine, in the Baia Mare mining district, northern Romania, they crystallized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BaseMetals-Gold HydrothermalOre Deposits of Baia Mare, Romania BARBU LANG Abstract The basemetals-goldhydrothermaldepositsnear...depositsin the Gutii Mountains near Baia Mare, Romania, have Mountains consist of a unit of the Neo-...km from central Slovakiaand Hungary to central Romania (Fig. 1). Volcanic activity began in the early...east. However, 1336 ORE DEPOSITS, BAIA MARE, ROMANIA recent data permit a reevaluationof this relatively...SlovakJanand Hungarian units to the Gutii Mountains of Romania. The second trend, northwestsoutheast, extends
Catalog/List
co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky...calcite £15 7. MALACHITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Musonoie Mine, Zaire. Crystalline mass of fibrous dark to pale...5cm. £55 11. AZURITE (3.5cm x 1.5cm x 1cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Dark inky blue azurite crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ioan Cuza” University of Ias, i, 700505 Ias, i, Romania; andrei.buzatu@uaic.ro (A.B.); andrei.apopei@uaic...Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 430083 Baia Mare, Romania; floareadamian@yahoo.com Institute for Interdisciplinary...i, Romania; andreea.maftei@uaic.ro Correspondence: gheorghe.damian@uaic.ro Abstract: Sphalerite is an...the Baia Mare and Oas, areas (northwestern Romania). Sphalerite samples were analyzed with an electron probe...and Oas, areas. The sphalerites from Baia Sprie, Cavnic, Iba, Turt, Penigher, and Breiner have a low Fe
Report (issue)
panting-dog days. Durangite, 2.7 cm, from the Barranca mine, Coneto de Comonfort, Durango, Mexico. Arkenstone...Budd photo. Durangite, 1.7 cm, from the Barranca mine, Coneto de Comonfort, Durango, Mexico. Arkenstone...see in the Mineralogical Record a brief report of mine from the new New York City Metro Show, which happened...the type locality for the species, the Barranca mine, Conete de Comonfort, Durango, Mexico. At this point...for this species. Barite, 4.7 cm, from the Muzo mine, Vasquez-Yacobi district, Boyaca Department, Colombia
Journal (issue)
stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...of ten pieces in this quality have been seen. Romania This past summer there has been an important find...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series
Book
Udubaşa (1938, Ocnele Mari, Romania) Director of the Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest; President...President of the Mineralogical Society of Romania; Member of the Commission for New Minerals and Mineral Names...and about 100 articles - one-third outside of Romania. Rudolf Duda (1944, Vojany, Slovakia) Head of the...Hungary (Sándor Szakáll) Poland (Ewa Kos/.owska) Romania (Gheorghe Udubasa) Slovakia (Rudolf Duda) Ukraine...Hungary (Sándor Szakáll), Poland (Ewa Kos/.owska). Romania (Gheorghe Udubasa), Slovakia (Rudolf Duda). Ukraine
Journal (issue)
Zacaminte) Founded 1910 by the Geological Institute of Romania VOL. ISSN 1220-5648 85 No. 1 CONTENT page...some Neogene magmatites of |Metaliferi Mts. – Romania ………………………… 1 Gheorghe C. POPESCU, Antonela NEACŞU...porphyry copper deposits from Metaliferi Mountains (Romania) …..…………….……. 7 Essaid BILAL, Fernando Machado...Cireşata porphyry deposit, Metaliferi Mountains, Romania ….……………… 19 S. MIHAI, M. ZLĂGNEAN, S. HALGA Mining...porphyry Cu-Au systems at Voia, Metaliferi Mts., Romania ……………………………………………………………………………………………......… 38 Ion
Book
eum. Kosice. SLK; GIR = Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest, ROM; GM= Gold Museum, Brad, ROM : GYV...data. Bogdan Marinescu (Geological lnstilllte of Romania): Necolai Terteleac (De. ign-Art-Foto. Bucharest):...Gheorghe llinca. Mihai Tatu (Geological lnstillltc of Romania, Bucharest): Marian Lupule cu (Univcr. ity of Bucharc...a) ROM Porubsky potok. Poruba ood Vihorlmom SLK Cavnic('') (Kapnikbanya) ROM Ciclo,•a Montan:,(?) (Csikto...high, height hill lake lillle, small low, lower mine mountai n mountains range or chain open-pi1 peak
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
05:52 29 January 2015 FRENCH CREEK IRON MINE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA M any minerals described...One such locality is the French Creek iron mine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, an occurrence worthy of consideration...presence of microscopic exsolution products such as sphalerite and stannite, respectively. Trace tellurium,...example of chalcopyrite from French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The 10-cm-wide specimen has chalcopyrite...exhibiting a complex chalcopyrite crystal on sphalerite from Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Houston
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
performed on the two major Miocene mining districts of Romania, Baia Mare and Apuseni Mountains. These two districts...Bucharest, 1, N. Balcescu Avenue, 70111, Bucharest, Romania J.P. Milési BRGM, REM/MESY 3, avenue C. Guillemin...Keywords Lead isotopes Æ Epithermal Æ Porphyry Æ Romania Æ Carpathians Introduction The Southern Apuseni...gold, silver, lead and zinc mines of Romania (Baia Sprie, Cavnic, Sasar, Rosia Poieni, Rosia Montana)...extends from Slovakia through Hungary and Ukraine to Romania. This volcanic area includes some important epithermal
Journal (issue)
Zacaminte) Founded 1910 by the Geological Institute of Romania VOL. ISSN 1220-5648 87 No. 1 CONTENT Gheorghe...tradition/heritage: the museum mines and geoparks in Romania ………................... 7 Mircea GEORGESCU The...mineralization related to Late Cretaceous magmatism in Romania ….................... 15 A. Feyzi BİNGÖL, Mesut...economic outlook of Jiu Valley hard coal deposit, Romania ............................................ 41...Mts., Romania ……....... 47 - continued on the back cover - Geological Institute of Romania Society
Catalog/List
directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...highlights include: • Possibly the best matrix Sphalerite ever mined from Balmat, New York. • A world-class... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...000-$3,000 52006 MIMETITE Var. CAMPYLITE Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WOLFRAMITE FROM THE BAIA SPRIE EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT, ROMANIA LAURENT BAILLY,† BRGM, REM/MESY, 3, Av. Claude...Au-Ag-PbZn-Cu-W ore deposit (Baia Mare district, Romania) have been investigated using electron probe microanalysis...previous studies on transparent minerals (quartz, sphalerite) from the Baia Sprie ore deposit. However, it...reported in a number of cases including Baia Sprie, Romania (Ianovici and Borcos, 1982); Cirotan, Indonesia...Sprie mineral deposit in the Baia Mare district, Romania; it is one of Europe’s major gold-polymetallic
Report (issue)
Total 99.84 100.00 (1) Herja (Kisbánya), Romania. (2) PbCuSbS3 . Polymorphism & Series: Occurrence:...temperatures. Association: Galena, tetrahedrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, stibnite, zinkenite, siderite...crystals from the Herodsfoot mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. At the Mogul mine, Silvermines, Co. Tipperary,... Ireland. From the Georg mine, near Horhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, and at Clausthal, Neudorf, and...Sprie (Felsőbánya), Cavnic (Kapnikbánya), and Săcărı̂mb (Nagyág), Romania. In France, from Pontgibaud
Catalog/List
with admixed Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Wales. Chocolate brown massive, with minor rock...to about 8mm with crystalline pyrite 3.Sx2.5 Cavnic Romania £25 VA UXITE very nice display piece of a rich...rich greenish yellow with white Barytes Whitesmith Mine Strontian Scotland lx2 £10 17. SCAPOLITE translucent...coating on 2x2 matrix Christmas Mine, Gila County Arizona USA £12 26. SPHALERITE lustrous black crystals all...too. Good small display piece Crown King Yavapai County Arizona, £15 32. CHALCEDONY off white botryoidal
Report (issue)
kermesite, stibnite, stibiconite, cervantite, sphalerite, siderite, calcite, quartz. Distribution: From...Chalanches mine, near Allemont, Isère. At Cavnic (Kapnikbánya) and Baia Mare (Nagybánya), Romania. In the...From Valtellina, Italy. In the USA, in the Ophir mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Storey Co., Nevada...Canada, at Atlin, Alder Island, and in the Engineer mine, Tagish Lake, British Columbia; from Bernic Lake...Lake, Manitoba. At the Moctezuma (Bambolla) mine, 12 km south of Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. From Broken
Report (issue)
meteorites. Association: Galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, tellurium, rhodochrosite...(Offenbánya), Săcărı̂mb (Nagyág), and Cavnic (Kapnikbánya), Romania. From Adervielle, Hautes-Pyrénées...Yakumo and Inakuraishi mines, Hokkaido; the Taisei mine, Akita Prefecture; and many other localities in...Preciosa mine, Tlalchichuca, Puebla, and at Onovas, Sonora, Mexico. In the USA, in the Lucky Cuss mine, Tombstone...Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona; the Queen of the West mine, Summit Co., Colorado; at Schellbourne, White Pine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc...a single zinc mineral, sphalerite. Fortunately for the collector, sphalerite tends to form well-crystallized...unusually large number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that...the source of a correspondingly large number of sphalerite specimens. Inasmuch as the minerals of the now-closed...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. 1 and 2 ) . Sphalerite is notable for its dodecahedral cleavage, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Colorado occurrences include mines of Clear Creek County, particularly in the Georgetown area, where it...in Clear Creek County crystals and masses to 1 cm are reported from the Johnny Bull mine, Silver Plume
Report (issue)
cinnabar, realgar, orpiment, stibnite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, barite. Distribution: Numerous localities...Mountains; and Wieden, Black Forest. In the Gabe-Gottes mine, Rauenthal, near Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin...(Zinnwald), Czech Republic. In Romania, from Săcărı̂mb (Nagyág), Hunyad, and Cavnic (Kapnikbánya). At Sterling...Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA. In the Huallapón mine, Pasto Bueno, Ancash Province, Peru. At Bidi, Sarawak...Sarawak Province, Borneo. In the Akatani mine, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. From the Dajishan tungsten deposits
Report (issue)
fluorite, barite, quartz, pyrite, tetrahedrite, sphalerite, hübnerite (hydrothermal); rhodonite, garnet...listed. From Cavnic (Kapnikbánya) and Herja (Kisbánya), Baia Mare (Nagybánya) district, Romania. In the...the Wolf mine, near Herdorf, Westphalia, Germany. In Russia, from the Vuoriyarvi carbonatite complex and...Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. In the USA, from the Emma mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana; in Colorado, at...Home Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park Co., from the Climax mine, Lake Co., in the Sunnyside mine, near Silverton
 
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