Scientific data near [46.30995, 23.17735]

Search area extends approximately 4.5 km east-west and 6.4 km north-south.

Geographic context

Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans
Romania	country
Europe	continent
Land	continent

Mineral Resource Data System

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references.

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Site name	Development	Commodities
Rosia Poieni	Plant	CU MO

Mineral operations outside the United States

Mineral facilities and operations outside the United States compiled by the National Minerals Information Center of the USGS.

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Facility name	Facility type	Commodity
Ortra mine	Mine	Barite
Borsa Balan Mine	Mine	Copper: concentrate

Global assessment of undiscovered copper resources

Deposits, prospects, and permissive tracts for porphyry and sediment-hosted copper resources worldwide, with estimates of undiscovered copper resources.

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Tract name	Deposit type	Geology
Apuseni Mountains	porphyry copper	Miocene intrusive and volcanic intermediate and acidic rocks of the Golden Quadrilateral and surrounding areas in the Apuseni Mountains of southern Romania.
Northern Carpathians	porphyry copper	An arcuate belt of calc-alkaline volcanic and intrusive rocks that formed in a post-subduction setting due to extension, lithospheric thinning, and mantle upwelling.
Dinaride-Aegean Region	porphyry copper	Paleocene to Miocene calc-alkaline volcanic and intrusive rocks that formed in a post-subduction environment; includes the Serbomacedonian-Rhodope metallogenic belt.
Transylvania-Balkan Mountains	porphyry copper	Late Cretaceous and Paleocene calc-alkaline volcanic and intrusive rocks in the westernmost part of the Late Cretaceous Tethyan Eurasian Metallogenic Belt.
Pacific Margin	porphyry copper	Cretaceous through middle Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the paleomargin of northeast Asia.