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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 20:22:16+00:00

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An ancient and historic mining town, known since 1336 and, in modern times, extended up to its maximum by Ceausescu's mining policies.
Located 30 km east of Baia Mare and famous for its deposits of lead, zinc, manganese, as well as small quantities of gold, silver, barium, and antimony.
In particular, the mines have produced the world's most beautiful tetrahedrites, by size, arrangement, and lustre.
Current situation: since 2008 all the mines are closed; adits are sealed, water pumps are off and the external structures demolished or about to be demolished.
For several years rumours persist about foreign investors, but they are slow to manifest themselves in reality.
Formerly known as Kapnik, Hungary (during the Austro-Hungarian empire).
Smoky quartz specimen showing split growth ("artichoke quartz") like the one on the photo are artificially irradiated. Photos of such specimens should be labeled "quartz", not "smoky quartz".
60 valid minerals. 1 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals.
Reference: Plotinskaya, O. Y., Damian, F., Prokofiev, V. Y., Kovalenker, V. A., & Damian, G. (2009). Tellurides occurrences in the Baia Mare region, Romania. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 4(2), 89-100.
Reference: Grancea, L., Bailly, L., Leroy, J., Banks, D., Marcoux, E., Milési, J., ... & Fabre, C. (2002). Fluid evolution in the Baia Mare epithermal gold/polymetallic district, Inner Carpathians, Romania. Mineralium Deposita, 37(6-7), 630-647.; Hîrtopanu, P., Andersen, J., Hârtopanu, I., & Udubaşa, S. Ilvaite From The Cavnic Deposit, Romania. pp62-65; Plotinskaya, O. Y., Damian, F., Prokofiev, V. Y., Kovalenker, V. A., & Damian, G. (2009). Tellurides occurrences in the Baia Mare region, Romania. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 4(2), 89-100.
Reference: Damian, G., Ciobanu, C. L., Cook, N. J., & Damian, F. (2008). Bismuth sulphosalts from the galena-matildite series in the Cremenea vein, Suior, Baia Mare district, Romania. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie-Abhandlungen, 185(2), 199-213.
Reference: Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 174; Zeitschrift für Kristallographie (1981): 156: 233.; Grancea, L., Bailly, L., Leroy, J., Banks, D., Marcoux, E., Milési, J., ... & Fabre, C. (2002). Fluid evolution in the Baia Mare epithermal gold/polymetallic district, Inner Carpathians, Romania. Mineralium Deposita, 37(6-7), 630-647.; Hîrtopanu, P., Andersen, J., Hârtopanu, I., & Udubaşa, S. Ilvaite From The Cavnic Deposit, Romania. pp62-65; Plotinskaya, O. Y., Damian, F., Prokofiev, V. Y., Kovalenker, V. A., & Damian, G. (2009). Tellurides occurrences in the Baia Mare region, Romania. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 4(2), 89-100.
Habit: Snow-white 1-cm spheroids scattered over plates of crystalline dolomite and quartz.
Reference: Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 963; Szakáll, S., Ed. (2002): Minerals of the Carpathians. Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany, 480 pp.
Reference: Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1101.
Palache, C., Berman, H., and Frondel, C. (1951) The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 963, 1101.
Huber, P. and Muresan, I. (1996) Farbenprächtige Mineralien aus Cavnic: Vererzung und Mineralien von Cavnic (Kapnikbanya, Kapnik). Lapis, 21(7/8), 45-55 (in German).
Szakáll, S. (Ed.) (2002) Minerals of the Carpathians. Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany, 480 pp.

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