ORE MINERALIZATIONS OF THE DUMBIERSKE-TATRY MTS (WESTERN CARPATHIANS,SLOVAKIA)

The Dumbier part of the Nizke Tatry Mts. is known especially for the e xploitation of Sb and Au ores. It belongs to the important ore distric ts within the Western Carpathians. It is built by a Variscan crystalli ne complex of the Tatric Unit, cover Mesozoic and Mesozoic nappes. Ore mineralizations were divided into 10 major types: the uranium, molybd enum, tungsten (scheelite), As-Fe-Au (arsenopyrite-pyrite with gold), Au-quartz, antimony with Fe, Cu, Pb, Sb, Bi, Ag sulphides, Pb (galena) - base-metal, siderite with Cu, Sb sulphides, Ba (barite) with Cu sul phides and the hematite one. Most of the known mineralization types ca n be linked to the evolution of Variscan basement metamorphic and magm atic rocks. Some mineralization types were recrystallized or remobiliz ed from surrounding rocks during the Alpine metallogenetic cycle.