Szakáll Sándor - Jánosi Melinda: Minerals of Hungary (Topographia Mineralogica Hungariae 4. Miskolc, 1996)

used to be the chief bearer of gold. The mine was also famous for its numerous secondary sulfate minerals (melanterite, halotrichite, chalcanthite, mendozite, copiapite) found in abandoned shafts and adits (Fig. 30 and 31). Green melanterite, for instance, was found as a dripstone almost lm tall. Fig. 30 DIADOCHITE (5 cm sp) Fig. 31 HALOTRICHITE (1

0 cm xl) Recsk Recsk Eocene andésite ore formations near Parád-Parádfürdö occur in lodes, and have an entirely different mineral assemblage, without any enargite or luzonite. Its most important members belong to the tennantite-tetrahedrite group. In addition to the fahlore the quartzites contain a lot of pyrite and some galena, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite. Of the secondary minerals, the sulfates jarosite and