M.R Hosseinzadeh; S Maghfouri; M Moayyed; M Lotfehnia; B Hajalilou
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The studied area is located in Tarom metallogenic zone (NW of Iran). This area illustrate widespread hydrothermal alteration and disseminated and vein-veinlet type copper, lead and zinc mineralization.Injection of qm Intrusive body into Eocene volcano clastic complex (Karaj Formation) along linear Faults ...
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The studied area is located in Tarom metallogenic zone (NW of Iran). This area illustrate widespread hydrothermal alteration and disseminated and vein-veinlet type copper, lead and zinc mineralization.Injection of qm Intrusive body into Eocene volcano clastic complex (Karaj Formation) along linear Faults caused intense hydrothermal alterations such as phyllic, argillic, propylitic and silicification. The major minerals of this rock are plagioclase, biotite, pyroxene, hornblende, alkali-feldespar, quartz with Lesser amount apatite, zircon, opaq minerals, rutile and sphene. Based on microscopic and geochemical assessments this rock is quartz- monzonite, tonalite, quartz- monzodiorite, and has calk-alkaline to shoshonitic and meta-aluminous character. This Pluton belongs to a volcanic arcs regime. The hydrothermal activities of penetrate intrusion causes the creation of two system vein and veinlet: ore bearing quartz vein- veinlet’s and non-ore bearing carbonate vein- veinlets. The mineralization in loubin- zardeh occured in quartz vein- veinlet along faults created via the intrusion of the intrusive. The main mineralizations of area are oxide (illmenite), sulfide (pyrite, Chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite), sulfate (barite) and the supergene minerals are oxides and hydroxide, (hematite, goetite), sulfide (covelite), sulfate (anglesite) and carbonate (malachite and azourite). The most important characteristics of mineralization at the Lubin- Zardeh area such as tectonic setting, host rocks, mineralogy, metal content as well as wall rock alterations, and to compare these characteristics with the basic features of Epithermal deposits, the polymetal vein- veinlet mineralization in Lubin- Zardeh placed in the Epithermal category.
B Hajalilou; Z Karimzadeh; M Advai
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The properties and situation of copper mineralization in the Haj Alibay Kandi area determined by quartz vein fluid inclusion and geophysical explorations in this study. The most important rock units include Oligocene intrusive rocks with monzonite and quartzmonzonite compositions. These rocks belong ...
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The properties and situation of copper mineralization in the Haj Alibay Kandi area determined by quartz vein fluid inclusion and geophysical explorations in this study. The most important rock units include Oligocene intrusive rocks with monzonite and quartzmonzonite compositions. These rocks belong to calc-alkaline series and post orogenic and post collision regimes. The mineralization in this area was controlled by faults with NE-SW direction. These mineralizations are related to the Sheivar-Dagh and younger intrusives. Chalcopyrite, pyrite, chalcocite, digenite, covelite, malachite, bornite and iron oxides were determined by mineralographical studies. On the basis of geophysical explorations, the chargebility anomaly at the depth of 40 to 50 meters is related to the concentration of sulphide minerals. This anomaly is conforms with faulting system in the area. The salinity of ore bearing fluid is from 5 to 50 wt% of NaCl and the homogenization temperature is 200 to 2400c and higher, on the basis of fluid inclusions studies. Fluid inclusions data are conformable with porphyry and epithermal copper deposits. This study shows that the boiling of ore fluids occurred at the mineralization stage. The shape of copper mineralization is vein and veinlets in this area and similar to cordilleran vein type deposit which can be observed at the top of porphyry copper deposits . Therefore, the formation of porphyry copper deposit at the deep levels of this area is expected.
Gh Sohrabi; M.R Hosseinzadeh; A.A Calagari; B Hadjalilu
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The study area is located in north of East-Azarabaidjan (northwest of Iran). The most important intrusive bodies in the area include the Gharehdagh and Shivardagh batholiths and porphyry stocks of Sungun and Haftcheshmeh. The petrological and petrographical studies show that the composition of intrusives ...
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The study area is located in north of East-Azarabaidjan (northwest of Iran). The most important intrusive bodies in the area include the Gharehdagh and Shivardagh batholiths and porphyry stocks of Sungun and Haftcheshmeh. The petrological and petrographical studies show that the composition of intrusives varies from gabbro through diorite, monzonite, and granodiorite to granite. All bodies are I-type and mostly metaluminous and calc-alkaline with medium to high potassium belonging to volcanic arcs. The most important alterations in ore-bearing areas include silicic, potassic, propylitic, phyllic, and argillic. Mo mineralization occurred mostly in quartz veins and veinlets within the potassic zone in porphyry systems and veins and also in endoskarn associated with garnet skarns. The amount of Mo increases in differentiated and biotite-bearing acidic bodies that have high values of Si, K, Rb, and REEs. The intrusive bodies enriched with K, Rb, and Ba and depleted in Zr, Ta, Y, Yb, and Nb elements indicate metasomatism of the upper mantle by subducting oceanic crust and subsequent generation of magma and its passes through relatively thick crust. The bodies bearing Mo mineralization are located mainly in the center of batholiths and have quartz monzonitic and granodioritic compositions.
M.R Hosseinzadeh; M Moayyed; S Maghfouri; S Alipour; B Hajalilou
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The study area is located in Arasbaran Metallogenic Zone. The rocks of the Baloojeh region includes of Oligo-Miocene quartz-diorite porphyry, gabbro-diorite, quartz-monzonite and granodiorite. The quartz diorite is the main host rock of porphyry type Cu-Mo mineralization in the Baloojeh deposit, but ...
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The study area is located in Arasbaran Metallogenic Zone. The rocks of the Baloojeh region includes of Oligo-Miocene quartz-diorite porphyry, gabbro-diorite, quartz-monzonite and granodiorite. The quartz diorite is the main host rock of porphyry type Cu-Mo mineralization in the Baloojeh deposit, but also in the other intrusive porphyries, copper mineralization can be seen. Much of the mineralization in the Baloojeh deposit is dispersive and vein- veinlet type. Based on the structure, mineralogy and texture, the Baloojeh vein- veinlets can be divided into four different groups. These veins - veinlets contains sulfide (pyrite, molybdenite, chalcopyrite, boehrnite, galena, and sphalerite), hydroxide and oxide (magnetite, hematite and goethite) and carbonate (malachite and azurite) minerals. Similar to other Cu- Mo porphyry deposits, the Baloojeh deposit contains of potassic, phyllic, argillic and propylitic alterations. The parent magma of intrusives has calk-alkaline to shoshonitic character that implaced in a post-collisional magmatic arc. The fluid inclusion study has been done on the different groups of veinlets. These studies suggest high temperature (221- 381 C°) and high salinity (5- 45 % NaCl) hydrothermal fluid and the occurrence of boiling phenomena in the ore- forming hydrothermal fluids of the Bloojeh deposit.
Gh. Hosseinzadeh; A.A. Calagari; M. Moayyed; B. Hadj-Alilu; M. Moazzen
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The Sonajil area is located in ~17 km east of Heris, East-Azarbaidjan. The major lithological units in the area include bodies of volcanic and volcanoclastic rocks (lower to middle Eocene), Sonajil porphyry stock (upper Eocene-lower Oligocene), Incheh granitoid stock (diorite, syeno-diorite, gabbro) ...
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The Sonajil area is located in ~17 km east of Heris, East-Azarbaidjan. The major lithological units in the area include bodies of volcanic and volcanoclastic rocks (lower to middle Eocene), Sonajil porphyry stock (upper Eocene-lower Oligocene), Incheh granitoid stock (diorite, syeno-diorite, gabbro) (middle-upper Oligocene), and Okuzdaghi volcanic rocks (Plio-Quaternary). The Sonajil porphyry stock hosts a porphyry copper-type mineralization and varies in composition from micro-syenodiorite through micro-gabbro-diorite to micro-gabbro and micro-granodiorite, featuring principally porphyritic to microlithic porphyry textures. The parental magma of these igneous bodies had shoshonitic character (to high-K calc-alkaline), and tectonically belongs to post-collisional volcanic arc. Various generations of banded quartz, quartz-sulfides, quartz-oxides, and sulfides veinlets and micro-veinlets were developed within the porphyry body featuring typical stockwork texture. Veins of sulfide mineralization are also present in peripheral parts of the porphyry body. Alteration and mineralization occurred principally within the Sonaljil porphyry stock. Three types of pervasive hypogene alterations are developed in Sonajil stock: (1) potassic; (2) phyllic; and (3) propylitic. The principal hypogene opaque minerals include pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, tetrahedrite, enargite, molybdenite, hematite and magnetite occurring as dissemination and stockwork (veinlets and micro-veinlets). The chief supergene minerals in this body are hematite, goethite, malachite, azurite, chalcocite, covellite, and clay minerals.
