– The single‐piece iron meteorite Javorje, with a mass of 4920 g, is the heaviest and largest meteorite found in the territory of Slovenia. The meteorite Javorje is a medium octahedrite with kamacite ...bandwidth of 0.85 ± 0.26 mm. The bulk composition of Ni (7.83 wt%), Co (0.48 wt%) and trace elements Ga (25 μg/g), Ge (47 μg/g), Ir (7.6 μg/g), As (5.8 μg/g), Au (0.47 μg/g), and Pt (13.4 μg/g) indicates that the meteorite Javorje belongs to the chemical group IIIAB. Mineral and bulk chemical compositions are consistent with other reported group IIIAB meteorites. The presence of numerous rhabdites, carlsbergite, sparse troilite, and chromite and abundance of daubréelites are in accordance with low‐Ni and low‐P IIIAB iron meteorites. The severely weathered surface and secondary weathering products in the interior of the meteorite suggest its high terrestrial age.
Meteorite Javorje is a IIIAB medium octahedrite iron meteorite with 7.83 wt% Ni content. It was found inNovember 2009 near village Javorje in the Poljane Valley. With nearly five kilograms it ...represents the largest andheaviest meteorite found so far in the territory of Slovenia. The purpose of this paper is to present general characteristicsof meteorite Javorje to the slovenian geological community. This paper reviews results of already publishedresearch of this meteorite and provides some newer findings and details about major, accessory and secondaryminerals, and also its cooling rate.
In the NE Montenegro, in the area Mt. Javorje and in the surrounding of the towns Bijelo Polje, Mojkovac, Ivangrad (Berane), Murino, Plav and Konjusi (Konjuhe) there are numerous small ore ...occurrences of pyrite and subordinately pyrrhotite with few per cent of Cu-, Zn- and Pb-sulphide in the small quantity of quartz and carbonate gangue minerals in Upper Paleozoic deposits. Different opinions considering the age of this ore occurrences exist in the literature of Montenegro: Upper Paleozoic or Middle Triassic. This study has revealed that most of this ore occurrences are of Permian age. Such statement relies on the discovery of Lower-Middle Permian fossils, on the specific occurrence of intercalated conglomerates, coarse grained sandstones and recrystallized limestones in the immediate vicinity and on the frequent stratiform (concordant) form of the occurence of ore and magmatic lenses and layers, or on the stratabound occurrences of ore impregnations and veins, respectively. It was concluded that all Pb-Zn ore deposits of Montenegro were derived from the same magma. It gave in three successive pulsations Permian small ore occurrences in early rift stage, larger Lower Triassic ore occurrences in the intermediate rift stage and the largest Middle Triassic Pb-Zn ore deposits in the main rift stage. This hypothesis is based on the isogenetic character of Pb204 and on the uniform values of endogene sulphide sulphur S34 of galena and pyrite in the ore deposits of all three stratigraphic horizons. The important indicator is permanent presence of Cu minerals, what is typical for Paleozoic ore deposits of whole Dinarides.
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