Exploration and Mining
Keytash Moshtaghian; Seyed Mohammad Abtahi Forooshani; Hooshang Asadi Harooni; Mohammad Hajheidari; Ghazal Janghorban
Abstract
The Dalli porphyry Copper-Gold deposit consists of two northern and southern indexes located on the Urmia-Dokhtar Volcanic Belt in Markazi province. Due to the presence of magnetite beneath the potassic alteration zone in the center of porphyry mineralization, a magnetometric survey was performed ...
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The Dalli porphyry Copper-Gold deposit consists of two northern and southern indexes located on the Urmia-Dokhtar Volcanic Belt in Markazi province. Due to the presence of magnetite beneath the potassic alteration zone in the center of porphyry mineralization, a magnetometric survey was performed in the region. In the current study in the northern index, first, we extracted the local anomaly via removing the regional and aliasing effects from the magnetic data. Then, using three-dimensional inverse modeling of the reducted data illustrates the presence of a body with high magnetic susceptibility, in the depth range of 40 to 640 meters of the study area. A comparison between geochemical analysis of two exploratory core drilling with the depth variational model of the estimated magnetic susceptibility in the study area indicates a spatial correlation between increases in the grades of copper and gold and large variations of the magnetic susceptibility. Also, comparison between the magnetic susceptibility model and resistivity and chargeability models estimated from IP/RS data of three parallel profiles indicates a relation between sulfidic and altered mineralized zones and magnetic susceptibility variations. Therefore, the current study shows a high potential for the copper-gold mineralization in the northern Dalli index.
M.J Mohammadzadeh; A Nasseri; S Ansari
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Sahebdivan area is located at 20.km of Meshkinshahr in Ardebil province. The study area is comprises of volcanic rocks and intrusive masses consisting of quartz monzonite and granite along with several vast epithermal alterations. The main objective of this paper is to recognize the present ...
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Sahebdivan area is located at 20.km of Meshkinshahr in Ardebil province. The study area is comprises of volcanic rocks and intrusive masses consisting of quartz monzonite and granite along with several vast epithermal alterations. The main objective of this paper is to recognize the present alteration zones indicating metal promising areas using geophysical methods such as induced polarization (IP) surveying and resistivity (RS) in order to assess the presence of minerals and delineate the subsurface masses at depth. Therefore, IP/resistivity survey was carried out based on rectangular array in the area and their corresponding maps were prepared. Accordingly, their promising anomalous zones for mineralization were initially detected. Furthermore, a new IP survey was attempted based on a dipole-dipole electrode array for detailed potential mapping.
Considering IP/RS pseudo-sections, the position, depth, intensity and extent of mineralization was defined. Correlating the anomalous zones obtained from geophysical results with Lithology and alteration zones in the area indicate Cu mineralization along E-W trend in Sahebdivan which is associated with increase in chargeability and reduction in resistivity. Furthermore topographic corrections were attempted resulting in anomalous halos enhancement. Discriminating the important alteration zones in the area were carried out based on chargeability variations where higher chargeability indicate phyllic alteration with pyrite and in contrast the Potassic alteration with low chargeability that coincide with igneous intrusive.
It can be deduced from this study that the porphyry micro quartz monzonite - micro quartz diorite generator fluids was recognized as source of mineralization along with surrounding andesite–dacite andesite as source of the anomalous zones in Sahebdivan area. Summing all the evidences from field studies and their compliance with geophysical results, Lithology, alterations and ultimately considering the susceptible mineralization zones, the optimal drilling points was proposed with priority of SABH-1 according to the Potassic zone in terms of potential copper mineralization.
M. K. Hafizi; H. Ranjy Roodposhti
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In this paper, the results of recent archaeological studies in Neyshabour, Iran, by the application of Electrical Resistivity (ER) and Induced polarization (IP) methods have been presented. The aim of this study was to verify the effectiveness and suitability of these techniques in detecting of the buried ...
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In this paper, the results of recent archaeological studies in Neyshabour, Iran, by the application of Electrical Resistivity (ER) and Induced polarization (IP) methods have been presented. The aim of this study was to verify the effectiveness and suitability of these techniques in detecting of the buried archaeological structures and remains in Iran and other similar sites that were mostly constructed out of adobe, mud brick. Several geoelectrical profiles were conducted in addition to IP and ER experiments on the samples and the test profile. The test profile was performed over an adobe-made wall outcrop. This work shows that these methods are so effective and useful for investigating of structures like walls, furnaces and pavements which their materials contain a large amount of clay.
M. Farzamian; A. Kamkar Rouhani; M. Ziaiie; H. A. Faraji Sabokbar; K. Seif panahi
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Chichakloo Lead and Zinc ore deposit is one of mineral potential areas, located in Lead and Zinc belt limit of Takab zone and 25 km far from Anguran mine. This ore deposit has been prospected and explored in different scales several times within the last few decades. The last exploration activity over ...
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Chichakloo Lead and Zinc ore deposit is one of mineral potential areas, located in Lead and Zinc belt limit of Takab zone and 25 km far from Anguran mine. This ore deposit has been prospected and explored in different scales several times within the last few decades. The last exploration activity over the deposit is the detailed geophysical survey (using resistivity and induced polarization methods) and also geochemical survey for potential mapping of Lead and Zinc zones. In this paper, after modeling and interpretation of geophysical data and processing and interpretation of geochemical data, we have prepared suitable exploration maps in GIS environment. For this, we have taken a new fuzzy approach for exploration maps using trapezoidal membership function. Then, for integration of exploration fuzzy layers, we have used fuzzy operations. The results of investigation of the final integrated exploration map indicate lead and zinc zones having a fuzzy favorability of greater than 0.5 in southeast of the study area that is obtained from remarkable overlapping of geophysical and geochemical anomalies. The results of drilling boreholes in the area confirm the exploration results obtained in this research work.
