Lepes, Porphyry copper prospect

Lepes

Porphyry copper prospect in Mures, Romania

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID	3147
Tract name	Northern Carpathians (150pCu6004)
Site status	prospect

Geographic location

Country	Romania
State or province	Mures
Geographic location	25.232, 46.834 (click for info)
Geologic map unit	25.232, 46.834
Nearby data	List Map

Geologic information

Deposit type	Porphyry copper
Age (Ma)	8Ma
Age determination method	unknown
Age range	late Miocene
Age reference	geologic inference
Tectonic setting	postconvergence
Stratigraphic age	late Miocene

Commodity and development information

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

Reference information

Comments	Advanced argillic alteration around vuggy silica associated with the Fancel Lapusna caldera in the Lepes-Eseniu area; calc-alkalic to high-K calc-alkalic volcanism in the Cálimani, Gurghiu and Harghita Mountains of Romania. Zoned hydrothermal alteration consistent with porphyry system; andesitic domes, microdiorite bodies at 500 m depth. Rock chemistry compatible with porphyry; HS epithermal system.
Study area name	Europe
References	Mason and others (1995); Popa and others (2002)
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.)

Popa, T., Popa, S., Matsch, E., and Seba, I., 2002, Hydrothermal alteration at Fancel Lapusna volcanic edifice (Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania) and its significance in exploration focus, in Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association Congress, 17th, Bratislava, September 14, 2002, Proceedings: Veda (Slavak Academic Press), [242] p.