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Porphyry copper prospect in Caras-Severin, Romania

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 369
Tract name Transylvania-Balkan Mountains (150pCu6001)
Site status prospect

Geographic location

Country Romania
State or province Caras-Severin
Geographic location 21.962209, 44.765009
Geologic map unit 21.962209, 44.765009
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Geologic information

Deposit type Porphyry copper
Age (Ma) 65Ma
Age determination method unknown
Age range 65 Ma (Laramian)
Age reference Singer and others (2008)
Minerals chalcopyrite, hematite, kaolinite, magnetite, molybdenite, pyrite, sericite
Associated rocks quartz diorite porphyry, skarn, carbonate, clastic sedimentary rocks, monzodiorite, schist
Tectonic setting continental margin
Stratigraphic age Late Cretaceous–Paleocene

Commodity and development information

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

Reference information

Comments Porphyry copper prospect with gold.
Study area name Europe
References Cioflica and Vlad (1980); Ciobanu and others (2002); Ianovici and others (1977); Singer and others (2008)
Site reference Sutphin and others (2013)
Ciobanu, C.L., Cook, N.J., and Stein, Holly, 2002, Regional setting and geochronology of the Late Cretaceous Banatitic magmatic and metallogenetic belt: Mineralium Deposita, v. 37, p. 541–567. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00126-002-0272-9.)
Cioflica, G., and Vlad, S., 1980, Copper sulfide deposits related to Laramian magmatism in Romania, in Jancovi?, S., and Sillitoe, R.H., eds., European copper deposits: Belgrade, Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA), UNESCO-IGCP International Symposium, Bor, Yugoslavia, September 18–22, 1979 [Proceedings], p. 67–72.
Ianovici, V., Vlad, ?., Borco?, M., and Bo?tinescu, S., 1977, Alpine porphyry copper mineralization of West Romania: Mineralium Deposita, v. 12, p. 307–317. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00206169.)Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C., 2008, Porphyry copper deposits of the world—Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155, [45] p. and digital data, accessed December 31, 2013, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1155/.