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Bahcecik
Turkiye / Turkey
Main commodities: Au


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The Bahcecik prospect is a low sulphidation epithermal mineralised system, located ~40 km SE of Trabazon, in the eastern Pontide tectonic province of the north eastern Black Sea region of Turkey.

Gold mineralization occurs in Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary volcanic rocks, localized along east-trending normal faults and lithologic contacts.

An early quartz-sericite alteration event was focused along the major fault in the area and resulted in precipitation of arsenian (?) pyrite with anomalous gold.   This was overprinted by a later, more spatially extensive, advanced argillic alteration event.

Native gold occurs as disseminations and fracture fillings in quartz. Gold mineralization is restricted to the high-temperature portion of the alteration zone characterized by quartz veins with diaspore-pyrophyllite selvages. The prospect area has been subjected to Tertiary to Holocene supergene alteration.

The most recent source geological information used to prepare this decription was dated: 2000.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Yigit O, Nelson E P and Hitzman M W  2000 - Early Tertiary epithermal gold mineralization, Bahcecik prospect, northeastern Turkey: in    Mineralium Deposita   v35 pp 689-696


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