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Rujevac Sb-Pb-Zn-As polymetallic deposit, Boranja orefield, Western Serbia: native arsenic and arsenic mineralization

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Rujevac is a low-temperature hydrothermal polymetallic Sb-Pb-Zn-As vein-type ore deposit, hosted within a volcanogenic-sedimentary zone situated in the Rujevac-Crvene Stene-Brezovica Diabase-Chert Formation (DCF) of the Podrinje Metallogenic District (PMD), Serbia. It is located several kilometers SE from the Boranja contact aureole, which is an integral part of the PMD in Western Serbia. Genetically related to the Tertiary granodioritic magma, the mineral assemblages are characterized by specific features. The mineral association of this deposit consists of sulfides, Pb-Sb(As) sulfosalts, native metals, oxides, hydroxides and gangue minerals. Chemical composition of the ore is very complex, where contents of valuable metals range as follows: Sb (0.17–24.31 wt.%), Zn (0.21–6.29 wt.%), Pb (0.15–6.33 wt.%), As (0.06–1.28 wt.%), Cd (25–747 ppm), Ag (7–408 ppm), Hg (13–473 ppm), and Tl (<1–29 ppm). Electron Probe Microanalyses (EPMA) of native arsenic from both the Rujevac and Stragari deposits showed contents of As up to 98.8 and 97.1 wt.%, with impurity contents of Sb up to 1.3 and 6.6 wt.%, and Tl up to 2 and 1.3 wt.%, respectively. Rhombohedral unit-cell parameters for native arsenic from Rujevac and Stragari deposits amount to: a = 3.760(2), c = 10.555(3) Å, V = 129.23(7) Å3 and a = 3.763(1), c = 10.560(5) Å, V = 129.48(8) Å3, respectively. Mineral assemblages, deposition order and genesis of the Rujevac polymetallic deposit were also discussed in detail. Native arsenic mineralization here has been additionally compared with similar well-known global deposits.

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This paper is a result of study of the OI-176016 Project (Magmatism and geodynamics of the Balkan Peninsula from Mesozoic to present day: significance for the formation of metallic and non-metallic mineral deposits), by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, which financially supported it. The authors would like to express their deepest gratitude to our colleague Robert Kellie for proofreading of the manuscript, Professor Dr. Anton Beran and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. The development of this paper has benefited substantially from their comments.

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    Slobodan A. Radosavljević & Jovica N. Stojanović

  2. Laboratory for Material Science, Institute for Nuclear Science Vinča, University of Belgrade, P.O. Box 522, 11001, Belgrade, Serbia

    Ana S. Radosavljević-Mihajlović

  3. Laboratory for Scanning Electron Microscopy, Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade, Djušina 7, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

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Radosavljević, S.A., Stojanović, J.N., Radosavljević-Mihajlović, A.S. et al. Rujevac Sb-Pb-Zn-As polymetallic deposit, Boranja orefield, Western Serbia: native arsenic and arsenic mineralization. Miner Petrol 108, 111–122 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-013-0291-5

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