S Alipour; B Hosseinzade; Y Rahimsouri
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Khanik-Gazan titanium potential is located at 82 km northwest of Urmia at the extremity of NW of Sanandaj-Sirjan geological zone. This deposit has formed in the Qazan mafic-ultramafic intrusive complex that intruded into the early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. It consist ...
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Khanik-Gazan titanium potential is located at 82 km northwest of Urmia at the extremity of NW of Sanandaj-Sirjan geological zone. This deposit has formed in the Qazan mafic-ultramafic intrusive complex that intruded into the early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. It consist of two general rock units including 1) mafic unit as the main outcrop volume and 2) ultramafic unit in smaller volume. The mafic rock type is gabbro in general formed of medium grained and layered accompanying by anorthosite sill and microgabbro (diabase). Layered mela and meso-gabbro are the main host rocks for titanium mineralisation in the studied area. The main minerals of the host rock included clinopyroxene (mainly augite), and calcic plagioclases. Opaque minerals and rarely olivine and apatite are the minor minerals and tremolite-actinolite, epidote, zoisite, chlorite, albite, sericite and calcite are the secondary minerals. Saussuritization, uralitization, sericitization and chloritization are the main alterations of main silicate minerals. Ilmenite, titanomagnetite, magnetite, and some hematite and pyrrhotite are the main primary opaque ore minerals. Open-space filling textures including granular and exsolution are the major textures of the ore, while, Spherical, martitization, mylonitization are the minor textures. Total abundance of ilmenite, magnetite, titanomagnetite in the studied polished sections ranges between 5 to 12 vol%. Oxide and silicate phases are associated with the host rocks due to the relatively low oxygen fugacity, which don’t occurred in complete separation of the silicate melt from oxide melt. Based on geochemical studies, the primary magma had revealed an alkaline to sub-alkaline (mainly tholeitic trend) series. According to the mineralogical and petrographical evidences and chemical analyses, the Khanik-Qazan ilmenite-titanomagnetite deposit is similar to the low grade apatite- ilmenite–magnetite Kauhajarvi and Lumikangas deposits, in western Finland.
S Alipour; P Shirmohammadi; Y Rahimsouri; H Bagheri
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Baba-Nazar garnet occurrence is located in northwest part of Sanandaj-Sirjan geological zone. Rock units in the area, including hornfels, garnetite and extensively weathered host rocks in contact with granite indicate garnet may have formed by metamorphism of clay-argillite, sandstone and calcareous ...
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Baba-Nazar garnet occurrence is located in northwest part of Sanandaj-Sirjan geological zone. Rock units in the area, including hornfels, garnetite and extensively weathered host rocks in contact with granite indicate garnet may have formed by metamorphism of clay-argillite, sandstone and calcareous rocks. The mineralogical and petrographical studies revealed that the evolution of mineralization has occurred during several progressive, retrograde and supergene alteration, while garnet has formed during progressive alteration. The results of the petrographical study of fluid inclusions show that most of the fluid inclusions in the garnet crystals fall in two groups: (1) Primary inclusions distributed randomly on the crystal faces and (2) secondary inclusions oriented along fractures and cleavage surfaces. Based on the inclusion diversity, four groups of these inclusions were differentiated: (1) single-phase liquid, (2) two-phase liquid-vapor, (3) solid multi-phase and (4) two-phase liquid–liquid. Micro thermometry of fluid inclusions in the garnet and quartz crystals show homogenization temperatures and salinities from 318 to 438 °C and 18.63 to 22.71 weight percent NaCl equivalent for garnet, and from 209 to 219 °C and 239 to 254 C° with 4.18 to 10.61 weight percent NaCl equivalent for quartz crystals.
S Alipour; S.N Mousavi; Y Rahimsouri
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Gharali lateritic iron-rich deposit is located in 20 km of Boukan city, West Azarbayedjan province. Eight surveyed stratiform outcrops stretched into thedolomite and limestone of Ruteh Formationin this region. Based on mineralogy, the analysed samples indicate scattered, veinlet, acicular, replacement, ...
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Gharali lateritic iron-rich deposit is located in 20 km of Boukan city, West Azarbayedjan province. Eight surveyed stratiform outcrops stretched into thedolomite and limestone of Ruteh Formationin this region. Based on mineralogy, the analysed samples indicate scattered, veinlet, acicular, replacement, spong, flow and cataclasic textures. The observed textures represents intense tectonic effects and non-residual origin.According to the chemical data, outcrops varies from iron-rich laterite to bearing ferritic bauxite, but in general the different diagrams put this ore deposit in a bauxite- laterite ore type. The results of geochemical data indicate enriched Fe, Al, and Ti and depletion Si, Ca, Na and K in ore deposits. REEs distribution pattern normalized to chondrite reveals weak differentiation of HREEs and LREEs with slightly enrichment of LREEs. The primary rock type has been considered to be a rich- iron mafic rocks (e.g. basaltic type). Following the removal of mobile elements, which have also resulted in increasing of Al2O3 andFe2O3, during alteration processes. The results show that clay minerals, Muscovite are not a suitable host for rare earth elements in the ore body. The results of chemical analyses and correlation coefficients show that neither rutile - anatase and nor clay minerals, muscovite, illite, and also Mn minerals play an important role in in hosting the REEs.The negatively correlated with Ti and Th (0.99) indicating lack of anatase titanium and thorium, and positive correlation of consentration between the Ti with Gd (0.91) shows that the consentration of rutile and anatase. Strong positive correlation of P-REEs indicate the role of secondary phosphate minerals consentration on rare earth elements except three elements such as Gd, Tb and Er in outcrops. The strong positive correlation of P with HREEs unravel phosphatic minerals role in enrichment of REEs except for three rare elements (Gd, Tb and Er) in outcrops.The Strong correlation between Gd, Tb and Er indicates their concentration with neomorphic minerals and their resistance nature against alteration and weathering are two main reasons for their difference distribution compared to other REEs inthese deposits.
