Carbonate-replacement Pb–Zn–Ag ± Au deposits in the Kamariza area, Lavrion district, Attica, Greece, are genetically related
to the emplacement of Miocene andesitic dikes within a rapidly extending continental back-arc basin, which formed during exhumation
of the Attic-Cycladic Crystalline Belt. Replacement veins as well as chimneys and mantos of massive sulfides are the major
orebody types with mantos grading into chimneys and veins. Ore minerals are similar among the various types of orebodies in
the Kamariza area and consist of sulfides and sulfarsenides (pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, gersdorffite,
marcasite), native metals (Au and Bi), Sn-bearing phases (petrukite), sulfosalts and sulfbismuthites of Ag, Bi, Cu, Pb, As,
Sb (tetrahedrite-group minerals, bournonite, boulangerite, stephanite, pyrargyrite, semseyite, enargite, bismuthinite, lillianite
homologues, Cu-matildite, aikinite, Ag-aikinite, mummeite, emplectite, wittichenite). The elemental association of Bi, Au,
and Ag is common. The assemblages gersdorffite-bismuthinite-native gold and native gold-native bismuth are evidence for a
contribution of magmatic components to the hydrothermal system. A fluctuation in the sulfidation states of the ore fluid during
the evolution of the Kamariza system is evident from the deposition of early arsenopyrite, as well as of enargite-luzonite
and both low-Fe and Fe-rich sphalerite in the same samples. Microthermometry of fluid inclusion assemblages show that carbonate
replacement mineralization was deposited from a warm to hot (100°C to 400°C), low to moderately saline (1.8 to 17.3 wt% NaCl
equiv) fluid. Eutectic temperatures of fluid inclusions as low as −55°C suggest the presence of CaCl
2 in addition to NaCl, in the ore fluid. The Kamariza deposit occurs distal to the Plaka granodiorite intrusion and the associated
porphyry-Mo mineralization, but is likely to be genetically related to a granitoid buried at depth.
Editorial handling: P. Garofalo