M Khalajmasoumi; M Lotfi; A Memar Kuchebagh; A Khakzad; P Afzal
Abstract
The studied area in the Saghand fifth anomaly is located in the Bafgh-Posht-e-Badam metalogeny belt in the Central Iran zone. Uranium, Thorium and Rare Earth Elements mineralization are hydrothermal and metasomatism type related to area intrusion bodies (Granite and Gabbro available in the north of study ...
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The studied area in the Saghand fifth anomaly is located in the Bafgh-Posht-e-Badam metalogeny belt in the Central Iran zone. Uranium, Thorium and Rare Earth Elements mineralization are hydrothermal and metasomatism type related to area intrusion bodies (Granite and Gabbro available in the north of study area). Uranium of hydrothermal type followed by deep fracture systems and concentrated around the magnetite bodies. The reasons are geochemical environment and alkaline metasomatism of Uranium - Thorium and Rare Earth Elements produced under an important metalogeny cycle in the Central Iran and studied area. The tudied area in special case, Cerium and Yttrium show positive correlation with mineralization of radioactive materials (Uranium – Thorium). Considering the genetic relationship between these elements (Cerium and Yttrium), popular separation of anomalous elements carried out by using classical statistical methods for lithogeochemical data and calculated statistical parameters. Then, the frequency distribution histograms along the calculation were plotted and consequently, the separation of anomalous element populations carried out. High positive correlation among the radioactive elements (U & Th) and Rare Earth Elements such as Cerium and Yttrium indicated that their mineralization phase generated from the same origin. Compilation of geochemical and geological rock unit maps designated that the radioactive ore mineralization was controlled by metasomatism, which produced different types of albite metasomatite, amphibole metasomatite, and albite-amphibole metasomatite from the rocks of pyroclastics, diabase, dacite and gabbro in the area. Uranium and Thorium anomalies calculated by classical statistical methods are mostly distributed in the west, southwest, and central part of the area, but in the central part the Th-intensity relatively was stronger than the Uranium. The anomaly trend for Cerium and Yttrium are the same as the Uranium and Thorium, but Yttrium anomaly in the central part is more intensive than the others.
