Ivo-Cocoizas, Porphyry copper prospect

Ivo-Cocoizas

Porphyry copper prospect in Harghita, Romania

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	3140
Tract name	Northern Carpathians (150pCu6004)
Site status	prospect

Geographic location

Country	Romania
State or province	Harghita
Geographic location	25.581667, 46.490556 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	25.581667, 46.490556
Nearby data	List Map

Geologic information

Deposit type	Porphyry copper
Age (Ma)	5Ma
Age determination method	unknown
Age range	6.3–3.9 Ma
Age reference	geologic inference
Tectonic setting	postconvergence
Stratigraphic age	Miocene–Pliocene

Commodity and development information

Development status	Prospect
Major commodities	Cu
Gold-Moly ratio	-9999

Reference information

Comments	Hydrothermally altered stratovolcano in the Cálimani-Gurghiu-Hargahita volcanic chain. Explosive breccias are present.
Study area name	Europe
References	Mason and others (1995); Mason and others (1996); Szakács and Seghedi (1995)
Site reference	Sutphin and others (2013)

Mason, P.R.D., Downes, H., Seghedi, I., Szakács, Alexandru, and Thirlwall, M.F., 1995, Low-pressure evolution of magmas from the Cálimani, Gurghiu and Harghita Mountains, East Carpathians: Acta Vulcanologica, v. 7, no. 2, p. 4352. (Also available at http://adatbank.transindex.ro/vendeg/htmlk/pdf6010.pdf.)Mason, P.R.D.; Downes, Hilary; Thirlwall, M.F.; Seghedi, Ioan; Szakacs, Alexandru; Lowry, David; and Mattey, David, 1996, Crustal assimilation as a major petrogenetic process in the East Carpathian Neogene and Quaternary continental margin arc, Romania: Journal of Petrology, v. 37, no. 4, p. 927959. (Also available at http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/4/927.full.pdf.)Szakács, A., and Seghedi, I., 1995, The C?limani-Gurghiu-Harghita volcanic chain, East Carpathians, RomaniaVolcanological features: Acta Vulcanologica, v. 7, no. 2, p. 145153. (Also available at http://adatbank.transindex.ro/vendeg/htmlk/pdf6015.pdf.)