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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Epidote
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epidote data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elatsite Mine, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:616419
Long-form Identifier:1:3:616419:5
GUID (UUID V4):906772c7-b706-4ba3-aad0-9ae46277bc28
Nearest other occurrences of Epidote
6.0km (3.7 miles) ⓘDolna Kamenitsa vein, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
6.7km (4.2 miles) ⓘChelopech Au-Cu Mine, Chelopech 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
44.7km (27.8 miles) ⓘKremikovtsi mine, Kremikovtsi, Stolichna Municipality, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
45.3km (28.1 miles) ⓘElshitsa mine, Elshitsa, Panagyurishte Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria
50.5km (31.4 miles) ⓘTsar Asen Mine, Tsar Asen, Pazardzhik Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria
58.5km (36.4 miles) ⓘPlana Cu deposit, Plana, Stolichna Municipality, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
69.8km (43.4 miles) ⓘVladaya, Vitosha Mt, Stolichna Municipality, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
78.7km (48.9 miles) ⓘDorkovo, Rakitovo Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
epithermal Au–Cu Chelopech deposit, Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria Isabelle Chambefort & Robert Moritz & Albrecht...European gold deposits and is located 60 km east of Sofia, within the northern part of the Panagyurishte mineral... which extends from Romania through Serbia to Bulgaria. The magmatic rocks define a typical calc-alkaline...92-Ma-old Elatsite porphyry–Cu deposit, suggest two different magma sources in the Chelopech– Elatsite magmatic...magmatic area. Magmatic rocks associated with the Elatsite porphyry–Cu deposit and the dacitic dome-like
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tandfonline.com/loi/tigr20 Porphyry–copper deposits of Bulgaria B. D. Bogdanov To cite this article: B. D. Bogdanov...Bogdanov (1983) Porphyry–copper deposits of Bulgaria, International Geology Review, 25:2, 178-188, DOI:...2016, At: 12:32 Porphyry-copper deposits of Bulgaria Downloaded by [University of California, San...aplites formed. The prophyry-copper deposits in Bulgaria provide over 8090 copper, and their role in the...distribution region of chalcopyritic deposits at Bor. In Bulgaria, side by side with the chalcopyritic deposits
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation in the central Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria Received: 10 January 2001 / Accepted: 30 January...the Srednogorie zone (Bulgaria) are represented by three major deposits (Elatsite, Medet and Assarel) and...as the major gold-copper mine at Chelopech located 10 km from the Elatsite porphyry-copper deposit. Mineralisation...Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, SoïŹa 1700, Bulgaria E-mail: sbs@staïŹ€.mgu.bg R. Petrunov (&) Æ M. Kanazirski...Geology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, SoïŹa 1113, Bulgaria E-mail: petrunov@geology.bas.bg E-mail: milko@geology
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)
Rilski” Faculty of Geology, Stoudentski Grad, Sofia 1700, Bulgaria AND J. R. WIJBRANS Faculteit der Aard-...district in Serbia and the Panagyurishte district in Bulgaria are part of the mineralized Late Cretaceous Carpatho-Balkan...igneous and alteration mineral separates from Elatsite and Medet in the northwestern and central parts...Krivelj, Bor) and the Panagyurishte district (Elatsite, Medet, Vlaikov Vruh, Assarel). Exact location...recently, K-Ar ages have been reported for the Bor mine area (Banjesevic et al., 2001) constraining hornblende-andesite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Elshitsa massive sulphide deposit, Sredna Gora zone, Bulgaria Received: 4 December 1995 / Accepted: 23 September...central part of the Srena Gora metallogenic zone in Bulgaria. The gold-bearing massive sulphide mineralization...Geography, Sofia University ‘‘St. Kl. Ohridski’’, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Bd., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria Introduction...The Sredna Gora structural-metallogenic zone in Bulgaria (Fig. 1) was developed during the Mezosoic as...deposits (Medet, Assarel, Vlaikov vrh, Tzar Asen and Elatsite), connected to subvolcanic granodiorite and quartzdiorite
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
Journal (issue)
mineral & lapidary society SMLS FIELD TRIP TO BULGARIA. Part 2 Journal 205 - January/February 2007 ...Journal 205 Jan/Feb 2007 SMLS COLLECTING TRIP TO BULGARIA: A BALKAN ADVENTURE, September 2006 Part 2. Mineral...Collecting, Purchasing and Exchanging The Republic of Bulgaria is situated in the south-east of the Balkan peninsula...almost entirely within the Alpine folded belt. Bulgaria covers part of the Moesian platform to the north...mineral deposits of Bulgaria www.bggems.com/priloj/prilo1.htm) We arrived in Sofia with the prospect of
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)
fluid-inclusion petrography of the Elatsite porphyry copper deposit, Bulgaria Received: 12 October 2000 /...January 2003  Springer-Verlag 2003 Abstract The Elatsite porphyry copper deposit occurs in an island-arc...g/t respectively. The copper mineralisation at Elatsite took place at pressures of 120 to 300 bar, corresponding...Tokmakchieva University of Mining and Geology, SoïŹa, Bulgaria K. Bogdanov Department of Mineralogy, Petrology...Petrology and Economic Geology, SoïŹa University, SoïŹa, Bulgaria were probably transported jointly as chloride
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...hydrous silicate minerals, such as tremolite, epidote, actinolite, phlogopite, etc (Fig. 6b, c). For...skarn Mo ores marked by assemblage of garnet, epidote, and chlorite. (d) Veinlet Cpy–Py in marble with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magnetite-bornite core of the Elatsite porphyry-Cu deposit (Panagyurishte, Bulgaria; Petrunov et al., 1992)...contact of intrusive with limestone, observable in the mine from just below the Ursoanea access gallery down...exception of the occurrence in the Magnet open pit mine. Garnet (and75gr25), the dominant constituent of...R B A RD A IA V SE AN YUG BOSN Danube Sofia BULGARIA Balkan Mts. Black Sea arpat South C B AL...Apuseni Mts. DA Ocna de Fier Dognecea intrusion Elatsite Srednogorie Rhodope Mts. TURKEY F.Y.R.O.M.
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...quartz, clinochlorite, muscovite, kaolinite and epidote., the oxidation zone Ćœmartitized magnetite, azurite...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)
Metallogenetic Belt (BMMB) of Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria is a complex calc-alkaline magmatic arc of Late...southernmost Banat (Romania), Serbia and north-west Bulgaria. These districts are the economically most important...Krivelj and Bor in Serbia, and Elatsite, Assarel and Chelopech in Bulgaria. More numerous (and mostly mined...mainly at the two ends of the belt, in Eastern Bulgaria and in Romania. This paper summarises some of...(Yugoslavia), and an east–westoriented belt in Bulgaria (Fig. 1). Despite gaps in the exposure of magmatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
epithermal Au-Ag deposit in Western Srednogorie, Bulgaria Ralica Sabeva, Vassilka Mladenova, Aberra Mogessie...epithermal Au-Ag deposit in Western Srednogorie, Bulgaria, Ore Geology Reviews (2017), doi: http://dx.doi...Srednogorie, Bulgaria Ralica Sabeva 1, Vassilka Mladenova1, Aberra Mogessie2 1 2 Sofia University, FGG...FGG, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria; E-mail: rsabeva@gea.uni-sofia.bg Institute of Earth Sciences, University of...located in western Srednogorie 50 km west of Sofia, Bulgaria. This zone belongs to the Late Cretaceous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
potassic feldspar and quartz, accompanied by epidote, actinolite, chlorite, anhydrite and carbonates... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT contains the assemblage chlorite-epidote-actinolite-sericite-carbonate formed on both plagioclase...Morii, RoƟia Poieni), outcrops (Colnic), and from mine dumps (Bucium-Tarnita, Rovina). Samples from Bolcana...(argillic alteration zone), +150 adit, and from a mine dump. Most samples were taken from the potassic...mineralization at the Radka mine, Panagyurishte district, ED Bulgaria, in a sulfide assemblage precipitated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey, commenced during the Jurassic through...Chelopech high-sulfidation epithermal deposit in Bulgaria. The Cretaceous belt continues to attract exploration...porphyry–high-sulfidation epithermal districts in Serbia and Bulgaria, with the remainder in the Pontides of Turkey...(Fig. 2), with the deposits in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria, forming in a narrow period between 89 and 92...Majdanpek Mine Serbia 1,000.0 0.35 0.60 10.89 6,000,000 Porphyry   Bor Group Mine Serbia 800
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Economou-Eliopoulos, 2010). For example, the Elatsite deposit, Bulgaria has an average whole rock Pt content...Polley & Island Copper, British Columbia; Medet, Bulgaria; Majdanpek, Serbia; Erdenetuin-Obo, Mongolia;...stage in the Elatsite, Santo Tomas II, Kalmakyr, Mamut and Majdanpek deposits. The Elatsite and Santo Tomas...bearing. Detailed studies established that at Elatsite the PGE are hosted in merenskyite [(Pd,Pt)(Te...magnetite-chalcopyrite-bornite stage of the deposit. Elatsite also contains other tellurides, including Ag tellurides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Skarn-Type (Lavrion, Plaka Mine) 3.1.1.The Massive Magnetite Skarn-Type Mine) ancient (earlier Separates...Separates than 1000ofB.C.), famous(Lavrion, mine of Plaka Lavrion in Attica (Greece) is associated withThe a...ancient (earlier than 1000 B.C.), Miocene famous mine Lavrion Attica (Greece) is associated with belt...earth element (REE)-enriched silicates of the epidote-group (allanite), Ce- and Th-rich monazites, and...Deposit (Skouries) wt.% Monazite Thorite Na, Ce-epidote Allanite Allanite The Skouries porphyry-Cu deposit
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...of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str. 24, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria 1 X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is...metamorphic rocks from the Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au-PGE deposit in Bulgaria, using both a labbased WD-XRF
Report (issue)
chalcopyrite, and bornite in the porphyry deposit at Elatsite, Bulgaria. Tin has been reported from some deposits...contain varying amounts of chlorite, calcite, and epidote, which have 2.32–2.35-ÎŒm absorption features (Salisbury...(sericite), magnetite, chlorite, anhydrite, and epidote. Other commonly occurring gangue minerals are rutile...(sericite), albite, anhydrite, chlorite, calcite, epidote, and kaolinite. In silicate-rich rocks that have...the most common minerals are garnet, pyroxene, epidote, quartz, actinolite, chlorite, biotite, calcite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
biotite, unchloritized but with sparse inclusions of epidote comprises an acceptable six-step plateau at 89...(87–88 Ma) centers in the Panagyurishte district, Bulgaria (Fig. 1a). However, Von Quadt et al. (2002) have...earlyand late-mineralization dykes in the nearby Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au center, and the K-Ar dates may...the Alpine-Balkan-Carpathian-Dinaride geodynamic province. Miner Deposita 37 (6–7):533–540 Herrington RJ...the Panagyurishte ore region (Srednogorie Zone, Bulgaria). Geodynamics and ore deposits evolution of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aegean Sea [26,27,29,30]. In the Rhodope Massif (Bulgaria and Greece), Late Cretaceous–Tertiary exhumation...C-type veins contain quartz ± chlorite ± biotite ± epidote ± chalcopyrite ± bornite ± pyrite ± molybdenite...27 10 229 - - [15], this study 1 19 22 Bulgaria 273 2,740 565 1,163 739 1,250 905 200 30–60...245 22 13 0.6 0.65 [19,73] [19,73] Assarel Elatsite Medet Bor Majdnapek Aitik Aksug Zhireken Sora...molybdenite from the Majdanpek (Serbia) and Elatsite (Bulgaria) Cu-Mo porphyry deposits, is supported by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of zircons from Medet porphyry copper deposit, Bulgaria: implications for timing, duration and sources...magmatism forming the Medet porphyry copper deposit, Bulgaria. ID-TIMS U–Pb-zircon dating Editorial handling:...Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria F. Neubauer Institute of Geology and Palaeontology...Geology and Geography, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria S. Strashimirov University...University of Mining and Geology “St. Ivan Rilski”, Sofia, Bulgaria demonstrates that ore-bearing magmatism extended
 
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