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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elatsite Mine, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:616433
Long-form Identifier:1:3:616433:1
GUID (UUID V4):84e58898-9252-4d5e-bdec-9f43b1dce6cb
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
5.2km (3.2 miles) ⓘVozdol deposit, Chelopech 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
44.7km (27.8 miles) ⓘKremikovtsi mine, Kremikovtsi, Stolichna Municipality, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
46.8km (29.1 miles) ⓘVlaykov Vruh Mine, Elshitsa, Panagyurishte Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria
65.1km (40.4 miles) ⓘSedmochislenitsi Mine (Sedmocislenici Mine), Balkan Mts (Stara Planina), Vratsa Province, Bulgaria
77.2km (48.0 miles) ⓘKlisura, Bankya, Stolichna Municipality, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
91.2km (56.7 miles) ⓘMilin Kamak deposit, Breznik Municipality, Pernik Province, Bulgaria
93.9km (58.3 miles) ⓘBartoto prospect, Bresnik deposit, Breznik Municipality, Pernik 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)
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)
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)
THE PGE MINERALIZATION IN THE ELATSITE PORPHYRY Cu–Au DEPOSIT, BULGARIA: COMPARISON WITH THE BAULA–NUASAHI...Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 24, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria LAURENT BAILLY BRGM, Mineral Resources Division...F–45060 OrlĂ©ans Cedex 2, France ABSTRACT The Elatsite porphyry-copper deposit contains platinum-group...porphyry copper, hydrothermal remobilization, Elatsite, Bulgaria. SOMMAIRE Le porphyre cuprifĂšre dÊŒElatsite...porphyre cuprifĂšre, remobilisation hydrothermale, Elatsite, Bulgarie. § E-mail address: t.auge@brgm.fr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of Sofia, Sofia 1504, Bulgaria; E-Mail: dobretenov@adiss-bg.com * Author...ppm) mineralization with high Pd/Pt ratios at the Elatsite porphyry deposit, which is found in a spatial...association with the Chelopech epithermal deposit (Bulgaria) and the Skouries porphyry deposit, may have formed...palladium; platinum; potential; transitional; Greece; Bulgaria Geosciences 2014, 4 32 1. Introduction Many...Copper King Mine in USA [12,13], Skouries porphyry deposit, Greece [14,15], Elatsite, Bulgaria [16–19],
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)
Box 3-1 128 3–1: The Elatsite porphyry Cu–Au deposit, Bulgaria Ore deposit: Lat. 42°45’ N, Long. 24°02’...Mineralogy and Crystallography, BAS, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria Received 30 November 2004, accepted 21 March...the high-sulphidation deposit of Chelopech, the Elatsite porphyry Cu–Au deposit (Figs. 1 and 2) is related...Cretaceous intrusive rocks of the Srednogorie zone (Bulgaria), as part of the Alpine– Balkan–Carpathian–Dinaride...tennantite, molybdenite, sphalerite, marcasite, pyrrhotite, galena, clausthalite, gold, electrum, hessite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Bulgaria TODORTODOROV Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113Sofia, Bulgaria Abstract-There...and occurrences of molybdenum mineralization in Bulgaria. With respect to genesis they belong to the magmatic...molybdenum mineralization are known to exist in Bulgaria. With respect to genesis they are quite varied...occurrences of the molybdenum mineralization in Bulgaria has been amply discussed (Staikov et al. 1971...Recently a new subdivision of metal-formations in Bulgaria was published. It is based on more objective criteria
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
along crystal margins, notably chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite, but also cobalt pentlandite, carrollite, wittichenite...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
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...minerals are hematite, molybdenite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, marcasite, hessite, and solid solutions of ...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
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 (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...malachite, hematite, magnetite . Alteration type Bulgaria (Srednogorie zone ) Medet potassic– propylitic–...propylitic– silification Elatsite main minerals: quartz, orthoclase Elatsite pyrite, chalcopyrite Tsar...CuqAu"Mo Copper King Mine alkaline CuqAu"Mo Bethlehem calc-alkaline CuqAu"Mo Bulgaria (Srednogorie zone)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterized by biotite–amphibole alteration and pyrrhotite-dominant ore assemblages formed at ~ 500– 600...600 °C. The ή34S values of ore-related pyrrhotite range from + 3.1 to + 9.9‰, in sharp contrast to those...those of syn-sedimentary pyrrhotite from Devonian host rocks which are between − 6.8 and − 9.5‰. The Pb...Pb isotope compositions of ore-related pyrrhotite, with 206Pb/204Pb = 17.85–18.25 and 207Pb/204Pb = 15...widely postulated for the Cretaceous Jiaodong gold province, in the North China Craton, where gold mineralization
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)
Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria, (up to 4 ppm in in high grade ores) from the 82 Elatsite deposit (Augé et... Philippines (Tarkian and Koopmann, 1995), in Bulgaria (Augé et al., 2005). Although the potential for...porphyry-Cu-Mo deposits from Greece (Skouries), Bulgaria (Elatsite, Medet, Assarel and Trar 99 Asen), Russia...Fe-Ni-Cu-sulfide mineralization 210 with dominant minerals pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and minor pentlandite, hosted in...mineralization, 227 accompanied by chromite, olivine, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, cubanite, magnetite, native copper
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
Report (issue)
either in base-meta l sulphide minera ls, such as pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and Unless otherwise stated, copyright...(up to 5 volume per cent) sulphides, chiefly pyrrhotite, pentlandite and cha lcopyrite. Although the...to Iiquids not able to be mixed together. 5 www. Mine ra Is UK. corn w Platinum . Iii -~ ~ . , ...from 1600 to 2500 mi IIi on years ago ° 1 www. Mine raIs UK. corn Four classes of PGE-dominant deposits...Approximute outcrop of Mer ersky Reef and UG2 Reef Province boundaries Faults e Towns Figure 2 The geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
5984B C2a type (Py earlier than BMS) 5990 C1 Elatsite, Bulgaria Various assemblages Dragov and Petrunov (1996)...sulfides; Cp = chalcopyrite; Gn = galena; Po = pyrrhotite; Py = pyrite; Sp = sphalerite; Tet = tetrahedrite-tennantite...or replacementtype (Py earlier than BMS) Elatsite, Bulgaria Porphyry Cu Sullivan, Canada Giant SEDEX...(Kochbulak, Uzbekistan), and SE Europe (Romania and Bulgaria), with ages ranging in age from Paleozoic to Neogene...orepipes (Kochbulak), or porphyry Cu-Au stocks (Elatsite, Bulgaria). Galena was also sampled from a magmatic-hydrothermal
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...representing endoskarns (stage I) by pyrite, pyrrhotite, and Fe-rich sphalerite, Ag-rich galena, arsenopyrite...forming exoskarns (stage was followed by pyrite, pyrrhotite, and Fe-rich sphalerite, Ag-rich galena, arsenopyrite
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...stage stockwork mineralization of the Elatsite Cu–Au deposit, Bulgaria, has been attributed to a direct involvement...hydrothermal ïŹ‚uid in equilibrium with pyrite or pyrrhotite and alteration minerals such as chlorite, epidote
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aegean Sea [26,27,29,30]. In the Rhodope Massif (Bulgaria and Greece), Late Cretaceous–Tertiary exhumation...consists of sulfides (pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, pyrrhotite, Re-rich molybdenite), iron oxides (magnetite...(Figure 5k,l), whereas galena, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite occur in minor amounts in the veins and as disseminations...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
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and RoƟia Poieni (this study). The presence of pyrrhotite was mentioned at Bucium-Tarniƣa, Rovina and Colnic...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...is not a typical ‘alkaline magmatism’-related province in the sense of Au-telluride ED deposits from
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Xiongcun district (Tibet, China) has abundant pyrrhotite, reduced fluids (CH4 >> CO2), and a relative...in the U.S.A (Roedder, 1971), the Elatsite Cu–Au deposit in Bulgaria (Stefanova et al., 2014), the Bajo...hydrothermal fluids and contain abundant hypogene pyrrhotite but lack oxidized minerals. In recent years,...deposits (e.g., the Bingham, Qulong Cu–Mo and Elatsite Cu–Au deposit), that became reduced during the...contains CH4-rich hydrothermal fluid and hypogene pyrrhotite, with a relative lack of highly oxidized magnetite–anhydrite
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........................................... R15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ R17 Mine Closure...........................................one another at Dashuigou and Majiagou (Sichuan Province) in southwestern China, and the epithermal-like...135° Cyprus Zarshuran Bushveld Great Dyke Elatsite Kochbulak Almalyk Kumtor Noril’sk Ural Mountains...aq, aqueous; He, hematite; Mt, magnetite; Po, pyrrhotite; Py, pyrite; and Te, tellurium Geology  R5
 
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