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Calcite from
Cavnic Mine, Cavnic, Maramureș County, Romania


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz2,130 photos of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyrite1,331 photos of Calcite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Sphalerite616 photos of Calcite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Dolomite470 photos of Calcite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite440 photos of Calcite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Siderite244 photos of Calcite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Baryte99 photos of Calcite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Limonite91 photos of Calcite associated with Limonite at this locality.
Marcasite89 photos of Calcite associated with Marcasite at this locality.
Aragonite88 photos of Calcite associated with Aragonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cavnic Mine, Cavnic, Maramureș County, Romania
Photo GalleryView Gallery (404 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:31559
Long-form Identifier:1:3:31559:5
GUID (UUID V4):848bd4de-f269-41e2-a688-8e4100cc925d
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
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
10.9km (6.8 miles) Dănești, Dănești 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
12.1km (7.5 miles) Breiner Mine (Brainer Mine; Breiner deposit), Băiuț, Maramureș County, Romania
15.2km (9.4 miles) Cizma Mine (Cisma deposit), Poiana Botizii, 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)
Cirotan (Indonesia), Orcopampa (Peru) and Cavnic (Romania). In these deposits, the manganiferous minerals...characterized by comb quartz, associated with illite, calcite and, sparingly, manganoan dolomite. The mineralogical...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...zone externe est à quartz columnaire, illite, calcite et dolomite manganésifère et est fréquemment géodique
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...galena, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite, and quartz...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock
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...matrix. Crystal displays well. £35 6. APATITE & CALCITE. (6cm x 5cm x 2cm) Slyukyanka, Russia. 30 x 10mm...exposed, in orange brown calcite £15 7. MALACHITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Musonoie Mine, Zaire. Crystalline mass
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
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 (issue)
micro crystals of manganbabingtonite, quartz, calcite, datolite, and inesite (identity confirmed). We...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...we hope for more and better in the future. The calcite twins from Guiyan in Hunan Province continue to
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
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... Hales. PC [JS] Malachite (2.5 cm aggr.) with calcite, Rudabánya: HOM jCKj End-papers: A satellite view...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)
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
Report (issue)
pocket in the McEarl Ridge mine near Jessieville, also called the James Zigras mine, because that worthy collector...Quartz, 14.7 cm, from the Zigras (McEarl Ridge) mine, Jessieville, Arkansas. The Arkenstone specimen...specimens are attributed to a mine named, aptly enough, the Green Fluorite mine, Manaoshan Mountain, Suxian...matrix. Fluorite, 11.6 cm, from the Green Fluorite mine, Manaoshan Mountain, Suxian district, Chenzhou Prefecture...a summer 2017 find at Quan Zhou city, Yong Chun County, Fujian Province. Gemmy, lushly blue-purple cubic
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...Ioan Cuza” University of Ias, i, 700057 Ias, i, Romania; andreea.maftei@uaic.ro Correspondence: gheorghe...from the Baia Mare and Oas, areas (northwestern Romania). Sphalerite samples were analyzed with an electron...and Oas, areas. The sphalerites from Baia Sprie, Cavnic, Iba, Turt, Penigher, and Breiner have a low Fe
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...chalcocite, bornite, pyrite, tetrahedrite, and even calcite pseudomorphs after chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite is...example of chalcopyrite from French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The 10-cm-wide specimen has chalcopyrite...of chalcopyrite crystals from the Old Lurzenbach mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Germany. Jack Halpern specimen
Catalog/List
directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 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...a modicum of the original coarsely crystalline Calcite matrix has been left. The rounded Talmessite crystal...000-$3,000 52006 MIMETITE Var. CAMPYLITE Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland)
Report (issue)
Mineral Group: Forms two series, with calcite and with siderite. Calcite group. Occurrence: A primary mineral...sediments; uncommon in granite pegmatites. Association: Calcite, siderite, dolomite, fluorite, barite, quartz,...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
Journal (issue)
(a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Tucson Show, held in a quonset hut at the old Pima County Fair and Rodeo Grounds. I’ve known all of the great...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson
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...red-brown coating on 2x2 matrix Christmas Mine, Gila County Arizona USA £12 26. SPHALERITE lustrous black...with a small area of calcite crystals about 2cm x4mm on the prehnite, the calcite has some slight dame
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
Report (issue)
processes. Association: Calcite, willemite, franklinite (Franklin, New Jersey, USA); calcite, alleghanyite, tephroite...(Sverdlovsk), Ural Mountains, Russia. In the Harstigen mine, near Persberg, and at Lº a ngban, VÄarmland, Sweden...Okehampton, Devon, England. In Romania, at B·a i»ta (R¶ezb¶anya) and Cavnic (Kapnik). From near Viu and...Australia, as gem crystals. In the Noda-Tamagawa mine, Iwate Prefecture, and many other places in Japan...Gerais, Brazil, as gem crystals. In the Chiurucu mine, Huanaco, Peru. Name: From the Greek for rose,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
article "Only a Calcite?!" to fax or e-mail their votes for the top local­ ities for calcite. As it turns...Keweenaw Peninsula, Mich. Guanajuato, Mexico Smith County, Tenn. Viburnum Trend district Indiana quarries...Mexico Illinois fluorite district St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Deccan basalts, India Tsumeb, Namibia Votes...Korea; Wawa, Ontario, Canada; Kaza­ khstan; Cavnic, Romania; Irai, Brazil; and Pribram, Czech Republic
Catalog/List
yellowish-green coarsely fibrous in matrix, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian Scotland large I x2 size £ 14 6. CHALCOPYRITE...about 8mm with crystalline pyrite 3.5x2.5 Cavnic -~ Romania £25 ~ 7. MILLERITE Solid fibrous mass small...inch (a most unusual form of this mineral) Agnew Mine, Leinster Western Australia £ 15 itvf: u-uth·d...to about half inch size over 2x2 area. Ciampino Mine Alban Hills Italy £ 15 17. SAL AMMONIAC glassy crystals...area on lxl.5 inch matrix Republic SOLD Scholller Mine, Kladno, Czech 18. APATITE -FLUORAPATITE- double
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals, or they may specialize in just one species—calcite is a popular mineral for this. Other collectors...Pseudohexagonal twins of aragonite on calcite, 10.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province...(1743–1822) who distinguished between aragonite and calcite based on cleavage, specific gravity, and crystallography...composition were responsible for the differences between calcite and aragonite. It wasn’t until 1822, when Eilhardt...time, that the relationship between aragonite and calcite was first understood (Gossner 1930; Palache, Berman
Report (issue)
stibiconite, cervantite, sphalerite, siderite, calcite, quartz. Distribution: From the Varuträsk pegmatite...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
 
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