R Ferdowsi; A.A Calagari; M.R Hosseinzadeh; K Siahcheshm
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Astarghan area is located in ~ 50 km of north of Tabriz, southeast of Kharvana, East-Azarbaidjn. The area is a part of Gharadagh- Arasbaran metallogenic belt. The most important units in the area is a hypabyssal prophyritic to granular granodioritic intrusive body of Oligo-Miocene and flysch- type sedimentry ...
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Astarghan area is located in ~ 50 km of north of Tabriz, southeast of Kharvana, East-Azarbaidjn. The area is a part of Gharadagh- Arasbaran metallogenic belt. The most important units in the area is a hypabyssal prophyritic to granular granodioritic intrusive body of Oligo-Miocene and flysch- type sedimentry sequence of limestone, limy sandstone and marl (Paleocene-Eocene). Intrusion of the stock into the sedimentary rocks caused them to convert into a series of metasomatites and contact metamorphic rocks. Geostatistic studies on stream sediments and heavy mineral were done and include data processing, (i.e. normalization, univariate and multivariate analysis), and ultimately preparation of anomaly maps. The correlation coefficients among elements were determined. Elements that show positive correlations with gold are Cu, Hg, Pb, As, Sb, Ag, Bi and Mo. The results of preliminary regional geochemical explorations have led to discovery of two anomalous zones for gold; grade 1 and grade 2. The anomalies were verified by studies on heavy minerals in stream sediments and mineralized and altered samples taken from gold anomalous zones. The most important indentified heavy minerals include magnetite, malachite, gold, micaseous hematite, pyrite, galena, cerussite, pyrite- limonite, goethite, limonite, barite, hematite, pyrite- oxide which are affiliated with alteration and mineralzation zones. The major alterations in the area are argillic, sericitic and propylitic developed along the vein’s walls. Field and analytic studies done on samples taken from the gold anomalous zones led to identification of epithermal gold veins having over 4.5 ppm gold grade. The concordance of anomaly map with tectonic map and altered zones indicate that the faulted and fractured zones have played a crucial role in creation of gold anomalous zones. The incorporation of these data in the area led to introduction of several anomalous zones belonging to Au, Ag, Cu, As and Pb that can be used as passfinders for epithermal gold.
R Ferdowsi; M Moayyed; A Kamali
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The Kalaibar nepheline syenitic body is located in East Azabaijan, NW of Iran. This alkalic body generally intruded semi-deeply into the Cretaceous and Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Based upon chemical classification, the composition of studied intrusive bodies are nephelines bearing syenite ...
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The Kalaibar nepheline syenitic body is located in East Azabaijan, NW of Iran. This alkalic body generally intruded semi-deeply into the Cretaceous and Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Based upon chemical classification, the composition of studied intrusive bodies are nephelines bearing syenite (nepheline syenite), nepheline bearing gabbro (alkalic gabbro), syenite and quartz monzonite (syeno-diorite) in order of abundance. In addition, the composition of accompanying dyke and pegmatitic units are nepheline syenite, syenodiorite and gabbro. Common textures of studied rocks are prophyritic granular and granular and accompanying dykes have fine grained granular, porphyritic and coarse grained granular textures. According to mineralographic studies and XRD analysis results, the main mineral phases contain orthoclase, albite, nepheline, oligoclase, hornblend, augite and Melanite. The nature of parent magma of these intrusives is potassium rich alkaline, metaluminous and miaskitic. Petrographical and geochemical studies based upon accessory and rare elements illustrate that these intrusives formed in a subduction or post collision related tectonic setting, which their lithological variety is justifiable by fractionation crystallization. The studied intrusives show the enrichment of Zn, Ba, Sr, Th and Pb and enrichment of Co, Sr, Pb and V in accompanying dykes. LREEs relative to HREEs show enrichment. Comparison of studied body with some other ones of corresponding type of the world in terms of the amount of accessory and rare elements shows that the Kalaibar nepheline syenitic body is resemble to the central Anatoly (Turkey), Zijinshan (china) and Musale (India) bodies.
