Suior, Maramures, Romania.

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We were allowed to look for minerals on the dumps at Suior. That was exceptional ;-)
Usually you will be shouted at to leave already only when you want to make a photograph...
We were able to find nice pieces here with Sphalerit-xx, Arsenopyrit-xx, Chalkopyrit-xx, Quarz-xx and Calcit.


In the southeast the Suior mine is followed by the Cavnic mines, working on the same 'vein'.

More details are also in the book 'minerals of the carpathians - 2002 - 480pp'


If you're searching for mineralogical articles on this locality (lapis-1983-10-roemenie-themanr, aufschluss-1992-04-06-roemenie, lapis-1996-78-roemenie-themanr, lapis-1999-03-31-roemenie, mw-1999-05-06-roemenie-baia-sprie, mw-2001-04-27-roemenie, mw-2001-04-43-roemenie-cavnic, lapis-2002-09-08-roemenie-cavnic etc..), please contact us...

Also see:
davidkjoyceminerals.com, hometown.aol.de, minesite.com, minmet.ie, eurogold.com.au,

Mindat.org on this location.

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