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Copper from
Sofia Mine, Puquios mining district, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sofia Mine, Puquios mining district, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:535129
Long-form Identifier:1:3:535129:9
GUID (UUID V4):6d5aad87-44b9-41cf-8141-c44c44d9b717
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BULGARIA: A NEWLY RECOGNIZED IRON OXIDE-COPPER-GOLD DISTRICT Richard H. Sillitoe,1,† Georgi Magaranov...3Department Capital Inc., 6th September Street 13A, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences...Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada Abstract The Rosen copper veins in southeastern Bulgaria are recognized for...for the first time as an iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) district. The veins are located in the East Srednogorie...mineralogic and compositional features of the Rosen district are comparable to those of well-known IOCG deposits
Journal (issue)
tgressman@comcast.net Famous Mineral Localities: The Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota ....Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England .....................red hematite inclusions, 4.5 cm, from the Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Don...AQUAMARINE ON MUSCOVITE Chumuru Mine, Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 22...Pohl-Ströher, the Technical University of the Freiberg Mining Academy lost a patron who, through the permanent
Report (chapter)
volcanism: a review R. H. Sillitoe Department of Mining Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College...f ore components. Manto-type copper deposits are best known from Chile and southern Peru. They consist...rocks immediately following their accumulation. Copper and subordinate silver were leached from the volcanic...origfn may l~e similar to that of the manto-type copper deposit~ Volcanogenic magnetite (+ hematite, apatite...beds at Cerro de Mercado, Mexico, and El Laco, Chile. The map netite magma separated from its ca/c-alkaline
Report (issue)
3.90 c = 16.95 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ida mine, Khan, Namibia. 3.14 (100), 2.82 (100), 1.89 (100)...world-wide. In Namibia, from the Ida mine, Khan River Valley, Swakopmund district [TL]; and at Tsumeb. Found near...From the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Germany. At the Repparfjord copper deposit, Finnmark...deposit, Pazardzhik, and the Chelopech deposit, Sofia, Bulgaria. In the USA, at upper White Canyon, San... Bom Fin, Bahia. In Chile, from several mines in the Copiapó district, Atacama, and at El Indio, east
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high-sulfidation deposit is located in the Panagyurishte ore district in Bulgaria, which is defined by a NNW alignment...are also recognized in the entire Panagyurishte district. Mapping and 3-D modeling show that hydrothermal...ore deposit alignment of the Panagyurishte ore district. It is concluded that the three fault populations...WNW-oriented folds throughout the Panagyurishte district. A subsequent tectonic stage resulted in overthrusting...similar to that of the entire Panagyurishte ore district. This coherence of the magmatic, hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Setting of Precious Metals at the Assarel Porphyry Copper-Gold Deposit, Bulgaria, as Supporting Information...investigation of ore samples from the Assarel porphyry copper deposit in the Srednogorie metallogenic zone (Bulgaria)...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...be extracted as co-products. Also, many porphyry copper deposits contain economic grades and volumes of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
located 60 km east of Sofia, within the northern part of the Panagyurishte mineral district. It lies within...Majdanpek Veliki Krivelj Moesian Platform Bor Sofia Introduction Elatsite Medet Assarel Chelopech...SEA Radka The Bulgarian Panagyurishte mineral district is a major ore producing area within the Eastern...et al. 2002; Heinrich and Neubauer 2002). This district displays some of the best examples of porphyry–Cu...Leach 1998). Within the northern Panagyurishte district, the high-sulfidation Au–Cu epithermal Chelopech
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Academy of Sciences, Georgi Bonchev bl. 107, BG-1113 Sofia, Bulgaria b c Received 30 November 2004; accepted...includes some of the best examples of porphyry copper and Cu–Au epithermal ore deposit in Europe, in...Marsh et al. (1997) showed for the Potrerillos district (Chile) that hydrothermal activity in porphyry-related...Ballard et al. (2001) state that the giant porphyry copper deposit at Chuquicamata contains porphyries that...Cretaceous magmatic rocks in the Pangyurishte district of the Central Srednogorie Zone of Bulgaria (Figs
Journal (issue)
cavity of dolomite carbonatite. 6 x 5 cm. Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Fersman Mineralogical...8. Outcrop of quartz vein with supergene green copper minerals . (a) 3189 m a.s.l., (b) 3185 m a.s.l...Administratively, the Imeretinsky site is located in the Urup district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, 60 km SW of...malachite. kcording to Lavrishchev et al. (2002), copper mineralization is genetically related to the Early...It corresponds those of leadhillite from Mammoth Mine , Arizona, USA and to the empirical formula Pb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu–Au association in the Southern Panagyurishte District, Bulgaria: the paired Vlaykov Vruh and Elshitsa...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...compositionally different types of ores—massive pyrite and copper–pyrite bodies. Vlaykov Vruh shares features with...complexes in the northern part of the Panagyurishte district (Chelopech, Elatsite, Assarel). Magma chemistry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu–As–Sn (±Au) ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE RADKA EPITHERMAL COPPER DEPOSIT, BULGARIA: EVIDENCE FROM MINERALOGY AND...Geography, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria...mineralization, possibly genetically related to a porphyry copper system. Keywords: vinciennite, enargite, mineralogy...Srednogorie, en Bulgarie. Le développement de ce district métallogénique est lié à une activité magmatique...deposits in the Panagyurishte ore district, Bulgaria. The district is part of the Srednogorie zone (Fig
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1 Paraskev Petrov,2 and Zlati Vasilev3 1 ETH 2 Sofia Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Clausiusstrasse...Economic Geology, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel blvd., 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria 3 Ellatzite-Med AD, Geology Department...inclusions were not susceptible to postentrapment copper enrichment, in accordance with recent experiments...Resources, Acad. G. Bonchev str., bl. 24, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. 0361-0128/14/4233/1359-23 1359 Submitted:...interpreted coexisting silicate melt and highly saline copper-rich fluid inclusions in quartz phenocrysts from
Report (issue)
54.94 iron 55.85 cobalt 58.93 nickel 58.69 copper 63.55 zinc 65.39 gallium 69.72 germanium 72..................................... R6 Magmatic Copper–Nickel–Platinum-Group-Metal Sulfide Deposits................................... R6 Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits................................................................................. R15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ R17 Mine Closure........................................
Report (chapter)
2015 The Elatsite porphyry copper deposit in the Panagyurishte ore district, Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria:...Crystallography, Bulgarian Academy of Science, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria (e-mail: peytcheva@erdw, eth. ch) 3Department...Economic Geology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 15, Bd. Tzar Osvoboditel, 1505 Sofia, Bulgaria (e-mail:...Elatsite Cu-Au porphyry deposit is the largest active mine in Bulgaria. It is located on the Etropole ridge...Mountains at the northern end of the Panagyurishte ore district of the Central Srednogorie zone (Bonchev 1970;
Report (volume)
-------------------------------------------------Chile -----------------------------------------------------Bolivia...times. Up four times. -------- PRODUCTION Barite mining became commercially important when Europe and the...160,000 tons of barite mined from the Cheshire district, Connecticut, between 1838 and 1878 (Fritts, 1962...and 1878. The spectacular growth of world barite mining began in 1945 as world economy started its great...did the United States. Table 4 lists the barite mining countries of the world and their production from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mladenova1, Aberra Mogessie2 1 2 Sofia University, FGG, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria; E-mail: rsabeva@gea.uni-sofia...is located in western Srednogorie 50 km west of Sofia, Bulgaria. This zone belongs to the Late Cretaceous...the AlpineBalkan-Carpathian-Dinaride geodynamic province (Ciobanu et al., 2002; Heinrich and Neubauer,...1991). The ABTS belt is an economically important province which hosts Cu- and Au-rich porphyry and high...in the central parts of the zone. The porphyry-copper deposits are Elatsite, Medet, Assarel, Tsar Asen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 24, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria LAURENT BAILLY BRGM, Mineral Resources...Cedex 2, France ABSTRACT The Elatsite porphyry-copper deposit contains platinum-group minerals associated...rammelsbergite, which are uncommon in typical porphyry-copper deposits, indicate a mantle derivation for the...platinum-group minerals, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, hydrothermal remobilization, Elatsite, Bulgaria...platinum-group elements (PGE) of the Elatsite porphyry copper deposit, in Bulgaria, has been the subject of several
Book (volume)
the Mineralogical Society and The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy on the ferrous, non-ferrous and...clear descriptions of the classical and producing mining districts and the larger deposits are required...interested in prospecting, by organizations requiring mining and mineral statistics, by compilers of atlases...non-specialists, who may include, for example, mining company executives, investment consultants and...The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Published by The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and
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assemblages that were deposited during the pyrite and copper-pyrite stages of mineralization are gold-bearing...and Geography, Sofia University ‘‘St. Kl. Ohridski’’, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Bd., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria Introduction...system that is a part of the global TethyanEurasian copper belt (Jancovic 1977, 1996; Dabovski et al. 1991;...andesite-dacite magmatic activity and porphyry-copper deposits (Medet, Assarel, Vlaikov vrh, Tzar Asen...been regarded as the most significant targets for copper and gold exploration since the fourth century B
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jankovic Dwarf Copper–Gold Porphyry Deposits of the Buchim–Damjan– Borov Dol Ore District, Republic of...Stefanovaa, and A. V. Volkovb ^ a Faculty of Mining and Geology, Goce Del’ c ev University, S tip,...Agbearing porphyry copper deposits in the Buchim–Damjan–Borov Dol ore district and their genetic fea...currently involved in mining. A comprehensive study of these dwarf porphyry copper deposits is undertaken...localization and formation conditions of por phyry copper giants have been the subjects of numer ous investigations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria Faculty of Geology and Geography, Sofia University St. Kliment...Kliment Ohridski, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria; vassilka@gea.uni-sofia.bg Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für...constituent of mine waste and the main contributor to the formation of acid mine drainage in some mining areas...Dol and Lukina Padina sections of the Chiprovtsi mine; Figure 1), as barite and fluorite Minerals 2020...Chiprovtsi deposit started underground The Chiprovtsimine mine extracting the Pb–Ag ores the Chiprovtsi deposit
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS REFINED TIMING OF PORPHYRY COPPER FORMATION IN THE SERBIAN AND BULGARIAN PORTIONS...KOZELJ, Copper Institute, Zeleni Bulevar 35, 19210 Bor, Serbia K. POPOV, University of Mining and Geology...Ivan Rilski” Faculty of Geology, Stoudentski Grad, Sofia 1700, Bulgaria AND J. R. WIJBRANS Faculteit der...Netherlands Abstract The Bor district in Serbia and the Panagyurishte district in Bulgaria are part of the...probe radiometric age information from porphyry copper deposits of the two districts in this study provides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Molybd~inlagerstatten von Weltbedeutung enth~ilt. Abstract The copper ore deposit of Sasca-Montana (Banat), renowned...spectrographical and roentgenographical studies done on copper ores. Especially remarked are the exolution, substitution...Mediterranean Copper Belt (Banat, Eastern Serbia, Surdulica, Srednogorian Zone, East Pontical Province, Small...Small Caucasus, Northern Iranidical Province and the Eastern Afghanistan) that extends over 5000 kin. and...and contains a series of copper and molybdenum deposits of world importance. R~sum~ Le gisement de cuivre
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trace-REE-patterns of zircons from Medet porphyry copper deposit, Bulgaria: implications for timing, duration...sources of the magmatism forming the Medet porphyry copper deposit, Bulgaria. ID-TIMS U–Pb-zircon dating Editorial...Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria F. Neubauer Institute of Geology and Palaeontology...Geography, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria S. Strashimirov University of Mining and...and Geology “St. Ivan Rilski”, Sofia, Bulgaria demonstrates that ore-bearing magmatism extended for less
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communica tion usually contain up to 150 000 t of copper with the Buchim deposits likely being the smallest...tma2105@mail.ru, alexandr@igem.ru b Department of Mining Geology, Gose Delchev University, Shtip, Macedonia...field is located in the northern part of the ore district in the Serbian–Macedonian Massif. A remarkable...(6) state boundaries; (7) Buchim–Borov Dol ore district. composed of gneisses, and their central parts...central part of the ore district in the Vardar zone 5 km southwest of the Buchim mine (Fig. 2). It is spatially
 
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