BARITE, HEMATITE AND CINNABAR ORE DEPOSITS IN THE DUSINA AREA, MID-BOSNIAN SCHIST MOUNTAINS

• Main Author: Ivan Jurković
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering 1996-12-01
• Series: Rudarsko-geološko-naftni Zbornik
• Subjects: barite; Dusina area (Bosnia); Palaeozoic; hematite; cinnabar ore deposits; paragenetic and geochemical characteristics; Post -Variscan metallogeny
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=20813&lang=en

In the Dusina area, which is built up of Lower Palaeozoic metasediments, Devonian carbonate complex and Upper Palaeozoic metarhyolites unconformab1y overlain by Upper Permian sediments, numerous ore occurrences have been investigated: (a) "stratabound" metamorphic hematite deposits in the pre-Devonian metasediments; (b) epigenetic veins and pipes of barite (± calcite) with accessory Hg-tetrahedrite and low-manganese hematite vein occurrences ± cinnabar in Devonian limestones and dolomites; (c) "Alpine-type" veins with uraninite or Cu-minerals; (d) alluvial and glacial resistates. On the basis of SrSO4 content in barites, isotopic composition of sulphide and sulphate sulphur, oxygen and carbon, as well as on the basis of fluid inclusion data author attributes barite deposits, low-manganese hematite deposits and Alpine-type veins to the post-Variscan metallogeny.