Au-Pd AND Bi-Se BEARING PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE FROM THE BUCHIM COPPER MINE, EASTERN MACEDONIA
Keywords:
ore minerals, Au-Pd phases, rare Bi-Se mineral phases, Buchim mine
Abstract
In the Buchim porphyry copper deposit, we determined several representative rare mineral phases, comprising metals from the gold-palladium group as well as those from the bismuth-selenium (Cu-Bi-Se-Te-As) group. The bismuth-selenium rare mineral phases are represented by new rare mineral phases in the Buchim porphyry copper deposit, bismuthinite, galenobismutite, krupkaite, friedrichite, emplectite, laitakarite and native bismuth as well as mineral phases of gold-palladium, including gold and palladium with their elemental mixtures. It should be stressed that both types of rare mineral phases were determined in pyrite and chalcopyrite from major ore paragenesis in the Buchim deposit. The bismuth-selenium mineral phases were related to the major quartz-pyrite-chalcopyrite paragenesis, while the gold-palladium phases were related to a slightly higher temperature, oxido-sulphide parageneses such are magnetite-pyrite-chalcopyrite (Mt-Py-Cp) and pyrite-chalcopyrite (Py-Cp).
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15 S. Lehmann, J. Barcikowski, A. von Quadt, D. Gallhofer, I. Peytcheva, C. A. Heinrich, T. Serafimovski, Geochronology, geochemistry and isotope tracing of the Oligocene magmatism of the Buchim-Damjan-Borov Dol ore district: Implications for timing, duration and source of the magmatism, Lithos, 180–181 (2013), 216–233
16 M. Kolb, A. von Quadt, I. Peytcheva, C. A. Heinrich, S. J. Fowler, V. Cvetkovic, Adakite-like and normal arc magmas: distinct fractionation paths in the East Serbian segment of the Balkan–Carpathian Arc. Journal of Petrology 1–31 (2012), doi:10.1093/petrology/ egs072
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18 P. Frei, Evolution of mineralizing fluid in the porphyry copper system of the Skouries deposit, northeast Chalkidiki -Greece: evidence from combined Pb–Sr and stable isotope data,Econ. Geol. 90 (1995), 746–762
Published
2021-03-16
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Serafimovski T, Dolenec T, Tasev G, Serafimovski D, Rogan ŠmucN, Dolenec M. Au-Pd AND Bi-Se BEARING PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE FROM THE BUCHIM COPPER MINE, EASTERN MACEDONIA. MatTech [Internet]. 2021Mar.16 [cited 2026Sep.8];55(1):71-6. Available from: https://mater-tehnol.si/index.php/MatTech/article/view/107
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