The current study presents the preliminary results of the mineralogical and geochemical characterization of the Sagiada mud (Prefecture of Thesprotia), which is considered as one of the most representative therapeutic mud occurrences in

The Olympias tailings of NE Chalkidiki, Greece represent the mine wastes produced by the beneficiation of the Pb-Zn-Au-Ag ore deposit, which is hosted within the carbonate rocks of the Kerdylia Unit. In the present study X-Ray diffraction (XRD),

Vein-type Pb-Ni-Bi-Au-Ag mineralization at Clemence mine in Kamariza and the Km 3 locality in the Lavrion area was synchronous with the intrusion of a Miocene granodiorite body and related felsic and mafic dykes and sills within marbles and schists that constitute the footwall of the Western Cycladic Detachment System. The Ni-Bi-Au association at Clemence mine consists of initial deposition of pyrite and arsenopyrite followed by an intergrowth of native gold-bismuthinite and oscillatory zoned gersdorffite. Oscillatory zoning in gersdorffite is related to variable As, Ni and Fe contents, indicating fluctuation of arsenic and sulfur fugacity in the hydrothermal fluid. A late evolution towards higher sulfur fugacity in the mineralization is evident by the deposition of chalcopyrite, tennantite, enargite and galena rimming gersdorffite. At the Km 3 locality, the observed Ni sulfides and sulfarsenides, vaesite, millerite, ullmannite and polydymite, are enclosed in gersdorffite and/or galena. The gersdorffite is homogenous and contain less Fe (up to 2 wt %) than that from the Clemence mine (up to 9 wt %). Bulk analyses for Clemence ore reveal Au and Ag grades exceeding both 100 g/t, Pb and Zn > 1 wt %, Ni up to 9700 ppm, Co up to 118 ppm, Sn > 100 ppm and Bi > 2000 ppm. The Km 3 mineralization is enriched in Mo (up to 36 ppm), Ni (>1 wt %) and Co (up to 1290 ppm). Despite local variations, both districts are characterized by a common fluid evolution similar to the broad Lavrion area.