Original scientific paper

BAKOVIĆI THE BIGEST GOLD DEPOSIT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Ivan Jurković

Abstract

Tectonic setting, para genesis, structure and texture of ores, sulphide sulphur isotopic composition allign the Bakovići veiny deposit in the group of polymetallic, postmagmatic hydrothermal deposits in the Mid-Bosnian Schist Mountains area. Crude ore is rich in gold (15 g/t). Main ore mineral is gold-bearing pyrite; quartz and siderite are the main gangue minerals Accessories are: tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrjte, stibnite, galena, barite, gypsum. Production between 1895-1938 gave 2.24 t of gold and 7.47 t of silver. The Bakovići deposit was the biggesl producer of gold in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The deposit is relaled to the Late Variscan rhyolite magmatism.

Keywords

Paleozoic meta sediments; metarhyolites; Bakovići mine; goldbearing pyrite vein,; olymetallic type; hydrothermal origin; Bosnia

Hrčak ID:

13589

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/13589

Publication date:

4.12.1995.

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