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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Illite
Formula:K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Illite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elatsite Mine, Etropole Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:616426
Long-form Identifier:1:3:616426:3
GUID (UUID V4):364fede8-41e9-419b-a4a9-f9c273791fa6
Nearest other occurrences of Illite
6.7km (4.2 miles) ⓘChelopech Au-Cu Mine, Chelopech Municipality, Sofia 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
46.8km (29.1 miles) ⓘVlaykov Vruh Mine, Elshitsa, Panagyurishte Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria
46.8km (29.1 miles) ⓘRadka Mine, Levski, Panagyurishte Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria
91.2km (56.7 miles) ⓘMilin Kamak deposit, Breznik Municipality, Pernik Province, Bulgaria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (chapter)
The Elatsite porphyry copper deposit in the Panagyurishte ore district, Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria: U...Crystallography, Bulgarian Academy of Science, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria (e-mail: peytcheva@erdw, eth. ch) 3Department...Geology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 15, Bd. Tzar Osvoboditel, 1505 Sofia, Bulgaria (e-mail:...the time of formation of the Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au deposit (Bulgaria) were dated by high-precision...that all porphyry rocks within and around the Elatsite deposit originate from an enriched mantle source
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
region of the Apuseni–Banat–Timok–Srednogorie belt, Bulgaria Albrecht von Quadt a,*, Robert Moritz b, Irena...Sciences, Georgi Bonchev bl. 107, BG-1113 Sofia, Bulgaria b c Received 30 November 2004; accepted 20...porphyry-style and high-sulphidation ore deposits in Bulgaria are aligned on the Panagyurishte corridor, a narrow...younging of magmatism from ca. 92 Ma in the north (Elatsite) to ca. 78 Ma in the south (Capitan Dimitrievo)...intrusions and porphyry Cu–Au mineralization at the Elatsite deposit and andesitic volcanism and high-sulphidation
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)
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)
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
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)
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Anatolian Crystalline Complex. and Elatsite and Assarel (Bulgaria, resources estimated ∌350 Mt @ 0.4%...Tepe low-sulïŹdation epithermal Au-Ag prospect (Bulgaria, resources estimated ∌6.9 Mt @ 3.5 g/t Au; www...huge highK calc-alkaline to shoshonitic magmatic province formed from north to south (Pe-Piper and Piper...metamorphic rocks (e.g. the Madan and Laki districts in Bulgaria and the Olympias deposit in Greece) or volcanic...rocks (e.g. the Zvezdel and Madjarovo districts in Bulgaria). (3) Sedimentary-rock hosted low-sulïŹdation epithermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Massive-vuggy silica Sericite, adularia uncommon Illite=smectiteadularia Roscoelite-illiteadularia Vein-filling... rocks of the Oligocene-Miocene Greek Rhodope province (Fig. 1) (Dimou et al., 1994; Voudouris and Arikas...deposits Ore deposits in northeastern Greece (Rhodope province and Limnos Island) were formed during the final...Perugini et al., 2004). Felsic members in the Rhodope province are considered to be crustal anatectic products...The largest prospect within this basin is Pefka mine (Fig. 2d), hosted in rhyodacitic lavas and pyroclastics
Corporate Document
XANG MINERALS LTD VILABOULY DISTRICT SAVANNAKHET PROVINCE LAO PDR SRK ES Project Number: ES7429 SRK Exploration...Caucasus region and possibly parts of Serbia and Bulgaria. Sediment-hosted copper deposits The sedimentary...defined within the SerboMacedonian metallogenic province and the Rhodope Massif, these deposits are not...epithermal deposit potential. Panagyrishte District, Bulgaria – porphyry Cu and epithermal potential. Bor Basin...mineralisation and the results of more intensive near-mine exploration. The subduction processes involved in
Report (issue)
chalcopyrite, and bornite in the porphyry deposit at Elatsite, Bulgaria. Tin has been reported from some deposits...copper-bearing mineral assemblages at the Lakeshore mine in Arizona, as follows: chalcocite zone, brochantite...solutions (Hartley and Rice, 2005). At the Lakeshore mine in Arizona, Cook (1988) found chrysocolla mineralization...underground or open-pit mining methods may be used to mine the skarn deposits. Sulfide ores are generally crushed...extract copper (Lynch and others, 1994). Volume of Mine Waste and Tailings Due to the low percentages of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
argillaceous rocks, consisting of mainly quartz, 229 illite/hydromica, sulfides (1 to 5 %), in some cases chlorite...content (3.4 to 3.5 apfu) and, thus belongs to 258 illite with minor amount of a paragonite end-member (Table...thus can be referred to as smectite or smectite-illite group. 276 Chlorite from gold-arsenopyrite-base-metal...deposit (Kovalenker et al., 2010), Elatsite Cu-porphyry deposit, Bulgaria 362 (Tarkian et al., 2003), Petropavlovskoe...chemistry (muscovite-paragonite series with no illite end-member) as well 12 384 as in association
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrophyllite–quartz–pyrite mineral association grading outward to illite–smectite–muscovite–pyrite and peripherally to ...phyllic alteration and includes quartz, muscovite, illite, siderite, and pyrite (Fig. 3e). In addition, all...lower-temperature argillic alteration (kaolinite–dickite–(illite) assemblage), overprinting an early Fig. 4 a SEM-CL...lowertemperature argillic alteration (kaolinite–dickite–(illite) assemblage), overprinting early potassic alteration...porphyrytype quartz veins from the Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au deposit (Bulgaria; Stefanova et al. 2014); only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pd contents (Santo Tomas II, Philippines; Elatsite, Bulgaria; Bozshakol, Kazakhstan; Kalmakyr, Uzbekistan)...carbonate–tourmaline–albite– quartz–muscovite, and (5) quartz–illite. The orebodies are isometric and slightly NWextended...quartz–carbonate veilents hosted in quartz–sericite and quartz–illite alterations. Ores are related predominantly to...quartz–sericite, calcite–chlorite–potassium feldspar–quartz–illite, and quartz–adularia–calcite– chlorite rocks. The...propylite and calcite–chlorite–potassium feldspar–illite rock were identified. Pyrite and chalcopyrite,
Report (issue)
........................................... 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...Reef in the eastern Bushveld Complex of Limpopo Province, South Africa, is contained in michenerite and
Book (volume)
Ostrosi Romania by V. Ianovici and M. Borcos Bulgaria by B. Bogdanov Greece by G. Marinos Cyprus by..._ Belgium; Southeast Europe includes Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia;...metallogenic prounce The Dinaric metallogenic province The western Macedonian district Iron ore deposits...rock ; ‘ ; : Serbo—Macedonian _—_metallogenic The province The pre-Devonian merallGeeuie epoch The Hercynian...Mineral deposits Internal zones External zones Bulgaria by B. Bogdanov Introduction : Structural netallogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PALEOCENE TO EOCENE, PERU 8115000 mN N Cuajone Mine Quellaveco Proposed Pit 8110000 mN Qu ella ...Inc ap 8090000 mN 0 uq uio Fa ult Toquepala Mine Porphyry Intrusive Complexes (Paleocene) Granodiorite...0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 Deposit Geology Cuajone The Cuajone mine, located approximately 30 km northeast of the town...names used herein are those utilized within the mine. Basalt, andesite, and quartz-phyric volcanic rocks...Peru Sample no. Easting Northing Rock type (mine units) Qu-701 316290 8116626 Granodiorite Qu-700
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gangue minerals, whereas clay minerals (mainly illite) are more frequent in the ore-mineral deposition... Slovakia (Duda & Kristin 1978) and the Cirotan mine, Indonesia (MilĂ©si et al. 1994). On the basis of...the Upper Cretaceous Panagyurishte district of Bulgaria (Radka, Chelopech, Krassen). These are considered...suggested that the deposition of Au–Ag–Ge in the Wolyu mine, South Korea, can be correlated with an increase...mineral association of ore minerals at the Kuga mine. Japan. Assoc. Mineral., Petrogr., Econ. Geol.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
78, No. 1, 2003 Sangu garnet deposit, Eastern Province, Zambia—A.V. Seifert and S Vrána 3 BULLETIN...determination of mercury speciation and mobility in mine waste —Chris Sladek and Mae Sexauer Gustin 927...magnussonite from the Garpenberg Norra mine, Bergslagen ore province, Sweden—Per Nysten Experimental evidence...No. 1, 2003 Isotope geochemistry and origin of illite-smectite and kaolinite from the Seilitz and Kemmlitz...Metasomatism and formation of the Kola Paleozoic alkaline province—V.R. Vetrin, I.L. Kamensky, and S.V. Ikorsky Native
Report (chapter)
Serbia, and by 91-94 Ma U - P b ages from western Bulgaria (von Quadt et al. 2001). The above information...unfavourable conditions. The Rhodope mineralized province was most probably controlled by gravitational...premature and a regional extension of the Rhodope province into former Yugoslavia and into Turkey is still...Romania. Abstracts of ABCD-GEODE workshop, Borovets Bulgaria, 19. CLARK, A.H., ARCHIBALD,D.A., LEE, A.W., FARRAR...features of the Paleogene orogenic magmatism in Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica, 19, 37-72. HOLE, M.J., ROGERS
Book
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)
Argentina (Harris et al., 2003), Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au deposit in Bulgaria (Stefanova et al., 2014), Deva...pyrophyllite-quartz-pyrite alteration grading to illite-smectite-muscovite-pyrite and more externally to...et al. (2014) in quartz from porphyry veins at Elatsite, since they are volumetrically minor, secondary...(2014) 22 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT propose that the Elatsite silicate melt inclusions correspond to droplets...magmatism in the central Peruvian polymetallic province and its D metallogenetic implications J. South
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
L-shaped belt from Romania through eastern Serbia to Bulgaria and host a variety of magmatic-hydrothermal Cu...deposits (Majdanpek, Bor, Assarel, Chelopech, Elatsite; Heinrich and Neubauer, 2002). This Late Cretaceous...few relicts in the base of the current open-pit mine, the Poieni diorite porphyry is pervasively overprinted...the Montana dacite also showed the presence of illite. Adularia alteration pervasively affected the Montana...sericite (illite and interlayered illite-montmorillonite after Marza et al., 1997, and illite-smectite
 
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