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Muncaceasca West

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Porphyry copper prospect in Hunedoara, Romania

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 3182
Tract name Apuseni Mountains (150pCu6003)
Group name Almas Group
Included sites Group includes Almas, Baba-Babuta, Breaza, Hanes-Large, Muncaceasca East, Muncaceasca West, and Trimpoiele prospects.
Site status prospect

Geographic location

Country Romania
State or province Hunedoara
Geographic location 23.066209, 46.128916
Geologic map unit 23.066209, 46.128916
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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 Occurrence
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Comments Exploration by European Goldfields determined that the Muncaceascu West prospect consists of steeply dipping, northwest-trending Au/Ag veins above a porphyry Cu-Au system located 400 meters below the present surface.
Study area name Europe
References Milu and others (2004); Levine and others (2004); Gratian and others (n.d.); European Goldfields Ltd. (2004)
Site reference Sutphin and others (2013)
European Goldfields Ltd., 2004, Annual report 2003: European Goldfields Ltd., 40 p.
Gratian, C., Radu, J., Ion, B., and Sorin, U., [n.d.], Neogene gold mineralization types in Romania: Geologica Carpathica, Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, accessed July 12, 2011, at http://www.geologicacarpathica.sk/special/G/Gratian_etal.pdf.Levine, R.M., Anderson, S.T., Steblez, W.G., Wilburn, D.R., Kuo, C.S., Newman, H.R., and Wallace, G.J., 2004, The mineral industries of Europe and central Eurasia, in Area reports—International—Europe and Central Eurasia: U.S. Geological Survey, Minerals Yearbook 2004, v. III, p. 1.1–1.52, accessed July 15, 2012, at http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/europe.html and at http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2004/europe04.pdf.Milu Viorica, Milesi, J-P., and Leroy, J.L., 2004, Rosia Poeni copper deposit, Apuseni Mountains, Romania–Advanced argillic overprint of a porphyry system: Mineralium Deposita, v. 39, p. 173–188. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00126-003-0390-z.)