Division: Geochemistry 

Scientific interests and investigations

In the area of Lower Silesia two types of the gold deposits occur: the primary ones (Stara Gora, Zloty Stok, Kletno) and the secondary ones (Lwowek Slaski, Wlen, Wadroze Wielkie). The latter comprise also the alluvial deposits from the environs of Zlotoryja with three detritic areas. Sources of these detritic deposits of gold are not unambiguously defined. My scientific interest is connected with the occurrence of gold in the Kaczawa Mountains.

My work aims to determine the variation of the gold concentrations in the rocks belonging to Kaczawa Complex, from selected regions of Kaczawa Mountains. These regions occur in the Kaczawa River basin. I am going to evaluate the participation of gold mobilised from these rocks in the alluvial gold deposits. In the Kaczawa Mountains region the alluvial gold has been found in several localities. The content of gold in the rocks of the Kaczawa Complex is also an interesting problem, especially when consider the distance from the alluvial gold accumulations.

I performed the field investigations in the Kaczawa River basin, from the town of Kaczorow through Wojcieszow, Swierzawa to Zlotoryja. From the surface outcrops I collected 100 samples, representing several rock types of the lower structural unit of Kaczawa Mountains. The rocks included: greenstones, greenschists, quartz-, quartz-mica- and graphite schists, diabases, keratophyres and lidytes. 

Average contents of gold (ppb) in graphite schists, quartz schists and greenstones from various regions of Kaczawa Mountains: X1 – Plonina, X2 – Kaczorow, X3 – Radzimowice, X4 – Wojcieszow, X5 – Swierzawa, X6 – Kondratow, X7 – Rozana.

Kaliszuk, R. 1998.  Gold in the rocks of the Kaczawa complex. Prace Specjalne Polskiego Towarzystwa Mineralogicznego, 11 (abst. in Polish).

Kaliszuk, R. 2000. Variation of trace amounts of gold in rocks of the Kaczawa complex. Przeglšd Geologiczny, 2 (in Polish).

  Classes Mineralogy and Optics of crystals for the 1st course students.
  Classes Petrology for the 2nd course students.