Economic Geology
S. Maleki; A. A. Calagari; K. Siahcheshm; S. Alirezaei
Abstract
Khak Sorkh iron deposit located about 42 km northwest of Nadushan town in Yazd Province. Host rock include upper Triassic-Jurassic limestone which are intruded by Oligo-Miocene granitoid bodies. Mineralization is dominated by magnetite, and serpentine is the main waste mineral. Skarn mineral assemblages ...
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Khak Sorkh iron deposit located about 42 km northwest of Nadushan town in Yazd Province. Host rock include upper Triassic-Jurassic limestone which are intruded by Oligo-Miocene granitoid bodies. Mineralization is dominated by magnetite, and serpentine is the main waste mineral. Skarn mineral assemblages include clinopyroxene, garnet, tremolite phlogopite and epidote. The characteristics of mineralization are: magnetite mineralization in two generations, presence of serpentine as the main waste mineral, hornfelsed greywacke units which come between intrusive bodies and skarned limestone units, absence of obvious zoning in endoskarn and exoskarn parts, presence of Ni-Co-As sulfides, high amount of Zn, As, Co and Mn in magnetite geochemical results and the increasing Fe along with decreasing Mg contents in magnetite at both deposit and crystal scales from primary to secondary types. Minor elements contents of geochemical results have been used for distinguishing of different mineral deposits (e.g, Dare et al., 2012; Dupuis and Beaudoin, 2011; Nadoll et al., 2012) and they are in good accordance to hydrothermal and skarn type deposits like: low contents of Cr (less than 10 ppm), high contents of Mg (2.2 to 7.5 ppm), low TiO2 (from 0.01 to 0.3 ppm), low amounts of incompatible elements including Ag (
N Mazhari; A Malekzadeh Shafaroudi; M Ghaderi
Abstract
The Senjedak-I prospect area is one of the six eastern anomalies of Sangan iron mine. Geologic units in the area consist of Jurassic shales and sandstones, skarn rocks and Tertiary biotite monzonite and biotite syenogranite intrusive rocks. Due to the severe alteration of biotite monzonite porphyry intrusive, ...
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The Senjedak-I prospect area is one of the six eastern anomalies of Sangan iron mine. Geologic units in the area consist of Jurassic shales and sandstones, skarn rocks and Tertiary biotite monzonite and biotite syenogranite intrusive rocks. Due to the severe alteration of biotite monzonite porphyry intrusive, geochemical studies have focused on the biotite syenogranite.
This granular intrusive consists of alkali feldspar, plagioclase, quartz, biotite and accessory minerals such as zircon, sphene, apatite and magnetite, with weak sericitic, argillic and silicic alteration. Biotite syenogranite rock is rich in silica (68.7 to 77.2 wt.%) and is chemically peraluminous and has generated by fractional crystallization from an I-type granitic magma poor in P (average 0.1% P2O5). This intrusive rock falls in the range of I-type granites and is oxidized. REE values indicate negative Eu anomaly, mild enrichment of LREE, a positive pattern close to flat HREE, negative anomalies of Ba, Sr, La, Ce, Ti, and Eu. On the basis of Rb, Nb, Yb, Hf, and Ta, tectonic setting of samples fall in Volcanic Arc Granite (VAG) and Post Collision Granite (post-COLG) divisions.
The most important event in Senjedak-I area is the penetration of Fe-bearing fluids in carbonate rocks, their recrystallization, skarnification (prograde and retrograde), and iron ore deposition that could be explained by the occurrence of calc-silicate minerals.
The skarn has been separated into 4 zones on the basis of abundance of the calc-silicates: garnet skarn, phlogopite skarn, epidote skarn, and amphibole skarn.
According to Electron Probe Micro Analysis (EPMA), the composition of garnets is andradite-grossular (An 100-42.6 Gr 0-55.32 Sps 0-1.39) and pyroxenes are diopside-hedenbergite (Di 63-92 Hd 4-35 Jo 0.5-3.9).
Mineralization in this prospect area formed as stratabound and massive bodies in the carbonate rocks. The main ore mineral is magnetite (40%) with minor amounts of pyrite. Secondary minerals are hematite and malachite. The FeO in the magnetite is 91.7% and the S content is 0.03%. The Senjedak-I anomaly places along the eastern part of Dardvay deposit (in central division of Sangan mine) and the geochemical similarities of intrusive rocks, chemistry of skarn minerals, and pyroxene and garnet composition confirms that the Senjedak-I is a part of Dardvay, which is separated by a main fault with southeast-northwest trend.