Economic Geology
Mohammad Ali Rajabzadeh; Mohammad Amini
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This is the first report on the presence of podiform chromititeLenses associated with the Marivan ophiolite. These ore deposits with granular massive fabric are hosted by dunite and harzburgite occurred in south Marivan city. Chemistry of chromian spinel in the chromite Lenses indicated that Cr# for ...
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This is the first report on the presence of podiform chromititeLenses associated with the Marivan ophiolite. These ore deposits with granular massive fabric are hosted by dunite and harzburgite occurred in south Marivan city. Chemistry of chromian spinel in the chromite Lenses indicated that Cr# for two ore occurrences is high (0.85) with very low TiO2, but for the other ore occurrence is lower (0.67) with higher TiO2 (0.05). The finding shows that the chromite ore Lenses and consequently their host ophiolite were developed in two different geotectonical settings. Geochemical data indicated that some of the studied ore deposits occurred during the opening of oceanic crust in a Mid Oceanic Ridge setting from a tholeiitic magma while the others were fractionated form a boninitic melt in a Supra Subduction Zone. Formation of these ore Lenses and the host rocks occurred in response to the very fast divergence and then convergence of Neo-Tethys oceanic crust. A wide range of gabbros including coarse-grained gabbro, melagabbro and microgabbro host ilmenite, magnetite and titanite in three regions at the northwest of Kamyaran (Yakhtekhan village), the east of Sarvabad (Mianeh village) and the south of Marivan (Dragashikhan-Vyseh villages). Ilmenite is found in all the three regions, but magnetite and titanite are only found in the east of Sarvabad. Plagioclase (andesine-labradorite) and diopside, the main rock-forming minerals with minor augite, olivine and amphibole are the minerals of the host rocks. The chemical composition of the ilmenites showed that the average concentration of TiO2 increases from Kamyaran (43.19 wt.%) to Sarvabad (46.09 wt.%) and then to Marivan (47.42 wt.%). These minerals occur as interstitial fine to medium grains (up to 1.5 mm) and often in the amoeboid, anhedral and to a lesser extent as subhedral forms. Based on textural and mineral chemistry evidence, mineralization of titanium occurred as the result of magma oxidation. The oxidation of magma resulted in the formation of iron-titanium immiscible liquid droplets, following the plagioclase crystallization.
Petrology
Ashraf Torkian; nafiseh salehi
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The Ahmadabad, Tahmoures and Ghareh-toreh volcanoes are part of the volcanic centers located on the Qorveh-Bijar axis and constitute a part of the magmatic outcrops of the northern arm of the Sanandaj Sirjan Zone, Hamadan-Tabriz. Volcanic rocks have basaltic composition and show porphyritic, microlithic ...
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The Ahmadabad, Tahmoures and Ghareh-toreh volcanoes are part of the volcanic centers located on the Qorveh-Bijar axis and constitute a part of the magmatic outcrops of the northern arm of the Sanandaj Sirjan Zone, Hamadan-Tabriz. Volcanic rocks have basaltic composition and show porphyritic, microlithic porphyry and glomeroporphyritic textures. Major phenocrysts include clinopyroxene and olivine. The abundance of clinopyroxene is found to be lower in Ghareh-toreh basalts, olivine is major phenocryst in this center. Clinopyroxene phenocrysts show normal, in some cases, reverse zoning and gulf corrosion indicating disequilibrium with the host's melt. The results of thermobarometric calculation (temperature and pressure) using clinopyroxene mineral indicate the temperatures of 1100-11300 °C and pressures of 3 to 11 kbar for Ahmadabad and Tahmoures volcanoes, and volcanic basalts at Ghareh-toreh reveal the temperature of 800 Up to 1100 °C and pressure of 0 to 3 kbar. The high oxygen fugacity in these rocks and the coherence of the temperature and pressure of the olivine phenocryst in this region with the temperature and pressure of the clinopyroxene in Ahmedabad and Tahmoures, all show that clinopyroxene crystals of Ghareh-toreh volcano formed at a lower depth and possibly in a shallow reservoir
Petrology
Rahimzadeh Bahman
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Scoria cones are one of the main parts of East of Kurdistan volcanoes. Olivine, Pyroxene, Plagioclase and Biotite are main phonocrystals with Amygdaloidal-glassy matrix. This paper was studied processes of bubbles nucleation and grow during the eruption of scoria's unite using the Bubble Size Distribution ...
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Scoria cones are one of the main parts of East of Kurdistan volcanoes. Olivine, Pyroxene, Plagioclase and Biotite are main phonocrystals with Amygdaloidal-glassy matrix. This paper was studied processes of bubbles nucleation and grow during the eruption of scoria's unite using the Bubble Size Distribution (BSD) method including study of population density, bubbles volume, 3D modeling, nucleation and bubble growth. For selected sample from different cone, in total was measured 3623 bubbles and drawn that bubbles volumes calculated from 40 to 85 percent. Using the 2D bubbles shape renovated 3D bubbles schematic shape and compared together. Most population for four samples bubbles shapes are near to sphere and for other four samples are ellipsoid. Longest ellipsoid bubbles shape has 1:3.2:8 diagonals ratio that it’s flat ellipsoid. The longest diameter (L) is perpendicular to the surface and parallel to lower pressure dictated on magma and bubbles could be growth more than other sides. Presence of 2-5 peaks in frequency distribution versus bubble size diagram, suggesting unimodal, polymodal, exponential and power low events for bubbles generation in the east of Kurdistan Scoria's. Nucleation density increased from first to lasts generation but bubbles growth reduced. Recur of bubble forming in macroscopic samples, microscopy, SEM and nucleation and grow model suggested fractal model.
M Barati; A Akbarpour; E Fazel Tale; B Talai; M Moslehi
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The Qahr-abad fluorite deposit is located ~58 km southeast of Saqqez city, Kurdistan province. This deposit is developed as scatter lenses, veins, and veinlets (stockwork structure) within carbonate rocks. Violet, green and colorless fluorites are recognized. Quartz, dolomite, calcite and barite are ...
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The Qahr-abad fluorite deposit is located ~58 km southeast of Saqqez city, Kurdistan province. This deposit is developed as scatter lenses, veins, and veinlets (stockwork structure) within carbonate rocks. Violet, green and colorless fluorites are recognized. Quartz, dolomite, calcite and barite are gangues. REE geochemistry of the area suggests that the REE content of the fluorites lies between 20.18 and 48.38 ppm. The relatively higher concentration of LREEs in violet and colorless fluorites suggests that they formed in the first stages of mineralization. The calculation of Eu anomalies suggest that the fluorites formed in alkaline to neutral and to some extent oxidizing conditions because the Eu anomaly cover a narrow range around 1. The calculation of Ce anomaly which is negative, also confirms the oxidizing conditions for mineralizing fluids. Finally, by the studies of REE geochemistry it can be concluded that Qahr-Abad fluorite deposit is a product of hydrothermal activity of epithermal type and the mineralizing fluids are of magmatic or basinal origin by which the presence of magmatic activity in this district, it can be explained.
SH Safari; A Asghari Moghaddam; A Nadiri; K Siahcheshm
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Arsenic is one of the most toxic and dangerous soluble substances in natural water. It has long-term ill effects on human health. Arsenic-contaminated water resources have been reported from many parts of the world and Iran, particularly from the Kurdistan province in the west of the country. The aim ...
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Arsenic is one of the most toxic and dangerous soluble substances in natural water. It has long-term ill effects on human health. Arsenic-contaminated water resources have been reported from many parts of the world and Iran, particularly from the Kurdistan province in the west of the country. The aim of this study is to identify the source of arsenic and mechanisms of its release into groundwater resources of the Chahardoli plain aquifers. Groundwater resources in this plain supply much of the water needs for drinking, agriculture and industry. Therefore, 31 water samples were collected from the plain aquifer and chemically analyzed for major and minor ions in the Hydrology Laboratory of Earth Sciences Department of the Tabriz University. Also, the trace elements were analyzed in the Kurdistan Waste Water Organization Laboratory. The results show high arsenic concentrations in the groundwater of the area. The highest arsenic concentration (270 µg/L) is related to a well located in the northwest part of the area which supplies water for agricultural purposes of Delbaran sector. According to the results obtained from multi-variable and graphical methods, there is a meaningful correlation between arsenic and major ions such as Na and K as well as silica, indicating that the source of arsenic is from volcanic rocks. It is therefore a geogenic rather than an anthropogenic phenomenon. The mechanism of arsenic releases into the water can be related to competitive adsorption of dissolved SiO2 in adsorption sites such as oxides of iron, aluminium and manganese.
H Dadashzadeh Ahari; P Afzal; N Rashidnejad Omran
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Separation of high grade from low grade veins and veinlets is very important operation in vein type deposits, especially in gold deposits because low value variations are very significant in their mineral exploration. In this paper, Concentration-Volume (C-V) fractal model was utilized for separation ...
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Separation of high grade from low grade veins and veinlets is very important operation in vein type deposits, especially in gold deposits because low value variations are very significant in their mineral exploration. In this paper, Concentration-Volume (C-V) fractal model was utilized for separation and classification of gold veins in the Qolqoleh deposit, which is located in the Kordestan province, NW of the Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic structural zone. Based on the obtained results from the model, different populations consisting of wall rocks, low grade, moderately grade, high grade and enriched zones were separated in the deposit. Rock types of the deposit were correlated with resulted mineralized zones by log ratio matrix. The most parts of the deposit have Au values lower than 3.98 ppm including low and moderately grade veins. However, mineralized veins hosted in chlorite-schists and this can be one of the exploration keys for gold prospecting in other parts of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone.