Volume 33 (2023)
Volume 32 (2022)
Volume 31 (2021)
Volume 30 (2020)
Volume 29 (2020)
Volume 28 (2019)
Volume 27 (2018)
Volume 26 (2017)
Volume 25 (2016)
Volume 24 (2015)
Volume 23 (2014)
Volume 22 (2013)
Volume 21 (2012)
Volume 20 (2011)
Volume 19 (2010)
Volume 18 (2009)
Volume 17 (2008)
Volume 16 (2007)
Economic Geology
The condition of sulfidation state and hydrothermal fluid evolution on genesis of the quartz-sulfide ± gold veins in the Mouchesh deposit (southern Kurdistan): constraints on mineralization, fluid inclusions, and stable isotope of sulfur

Mehdi Moradi; Ebrahim Tale Fazel

Articles in Press, Corrected Proof, Available Online from 29 January 2024

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2024.416998.2115

Abstract
  Mouchesh gold deposit (0.7 Mt @ 1.3 g/t gold) is located in the Takab-Delijan gold belt. Mineralization with several 28 gold-bearing quartz-sulfide veins (N40E-trending, 1 to 10 m wide, and 5 to 200 m long) has been formed in the host of Lower Cretaceous andesite and andesitic lithic tuff units. Open ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Hydrothermal alteration and gold mineralization in Kharestan-Bidester, Taftan area, southeast Iran

Pooya Seyed Salehi Naeini; Saeid alirezaei

Articles in Press, Corrected Proof, Available Online from 07 February 2024

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2024.436419.2130

Abstract
  The Kharestan-Bidester area, northwest of the Taftan volcano, is covered by a series of Plio-Quaternary lava flows and pyroclastic materials. The area is marked by extensive silicic and argillic alterations. The silicic zones, distinguished by vuggy texture, are bordered by advanced-intermediate argillic ...  Read More

Economic Geology
The occurrence of boiling process based on mineralogical, textural and fluid inclusion evidences in epithermal deposits: a case study of Chah-Morad deposit, Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran

Leila Amini; Mohammad Maanijou

Volume 33, Issue 4 , December 2023, , Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.378554.2046

Abstract
  One of the common processes that lead to the formation and enrichment of precious metal deposits is boiling. The existence of a spatial relation between fluid boiling and deposition of precious metals is a valuable tool in exploration of epithermal deposits. Therefore, the investigating of the process ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Chemistry of Sericite, Pyrite, and Chalcopyrite in the Phyllic Alteration Zone of the Parkam and Abdar Porphyry Deposits

Alireza Zarasvandi; Mohsen Rezaei; Mansour Adelpour; Hadis Parvaneh

Volume 33, Issue 3 , August 2023, , Pages 139-158

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.351321.2015

Abstract
  Parkam (Sara) and Abdar porphyry Cu deposits containing mainly dioritic and quartz dioritic stocks are located in the southern part of Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Belt (UDMB). In the Parkam deposit, alterations such as potassic, potassic-phyllic, biotitic, phyllic, argillic and propylitic have been identified, ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Study of Alterations, fluid inclusions and sulfur and oxygen isotope compositions in Sarkuh porphyry copper deposit, Kerman

Sholeh Malekshahi; Masoumeh Khalajmasoumi; Hadi Mohammad- Doost; Mona Sojdehee; Shahrzad Aboutorab

Volume 33, Issue 3 , August 2023, , Pages 159-182

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.363665.2033

Abstract
  The Sarkuh Porphyry Copper deposit is located about 6 km southwest of Sarcheshmeh porphyry copper deposit. Alterations in the region include advanced potassic, propylitic, phyllic and argillic. Copper mineralization is mainly associated with porphyry granodiorite mass. Minerals include chalcopyrite, ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Geochemistry of rare earth elements of the Gano bauxite deposit, eastern Alborz zone, northern Iran

Maryam Khosravi; Wenchao Yu; Jintao Zhou

Volume 33, Issue 3 , August 2023, , Pages 183-200

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.390681.2075

Abstract
  The Gano bauxite deposit is located 90 km northeast of Semnan city in the eastern Alborz Mountains, northern Iran. The bauxite ores occur as stratiform discrete lenses with a length of 6 km and thickness of 2–20 m along the contact between carbonates of the Elika Formation and shale, sandstone, ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Stable isotope (S-H-O) studies on Astamal deposit: Indication to mineralized fluid resources, NW Iran

Shohreh Hassanpour; Susan Ebrahimi

Volume 33, Issue 3 , August 2023, , Pages 201-218

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.375717.2041

Abstract
  Astmal deposit is located in the northwest of Iran and is structurally located in the Arasbaran Magmatic zone. Skarn mineralization related to the Eocene-Oligocene granodiorite rocks which have been permeated to the Upper Cretaceous rocks. Mineralization has formed in the exoskarn zone, and the metasomatic ...  Read More

Economic Geology
The Hired gold deposit, Lut Block, East Iran: example of a gold deposit related to reduced I-type intrusive bodies

Maryam Emami Jafari; Saeed Alirezaei; Iraj Rasa; Jochen Kolb

Volume 33, Issue 3 , August 2023, , Pages 219-242

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.378434.2054

Abstract
  The Hired gold deposit in the Lut block, East Iran, is closely associated with an intermediate-mafic intrusive complex consisting of granodiorite to diorite, hornblende quartz-monzonite, and gabbro-diorite intruded into Eocene volcanic rocks. The intrusions are distinguished by high contents of CaO, ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Geology, mineralogy, geochemistry of sulfide ores and galena mineral in the Chah-Nar Pb-Zn deposit, SW Baft (Southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone)

Mahdi Ghorbani- Dehnavi; Azadeh Malekzadeh -Shafaroudi; Mohammad Hassan Karimpour

Volume 33, Issue 3 , August 2023, , Pages 243-266

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.383871.2059

Abstract
  Chah-Nar Pb-Zn deposit is located south of Rutchun plain, 110 km SW Baft, within Sanandaj- Sirjan Zone. Mineralization occurs at calitic-dolomitic marble of Rutchun complex  as epigenetic with structural control. Paragenetic minerals are galena and minor sphalerite  and pyrite associated with ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Investigation of iron occurrence by geophysics, geochemistry, and tectonic setting of granitoids of the East of Kuh-e Dom, Central Iran

Shiva Farangi; Zahra Alaminia; Mohammad Vahedi; Hamzeh Sadeghisorkhani

Volume 33, Issue 2 , June 2023, , Pages 1-24

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.361759.2032

Abstract
  The studied area is located in N-Sonqor and in the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone. Field relationships and petrographic evidence show that volcanic rocks of the north of Bashirabad comprise of trachydacite to trachyandesite (and altered basaltic trachyandesite) and in the south of this area, it consists of andesite ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Origin and physicochemical nature of the ore-forming fluids of the Fathabad Cu deposit, SE Torbat-e-Heydarieh, Khorasan Razavi

Hanieh Kiaei; Ahmad Kazemi-Mehrnia; Hamid Samari; Peyman Afzal; Nazanin Zaheri-Abdehvand

Volume 33, Issue 2 , June 2023, , Pages 25-42

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.346123.2004

Abstract
  The Fatehabad Cu deposit is located in the Khorasan Razavi province, 35 km SE of the Torbat-e Heydariyeh and in the Khaf-Kashmar-Bardaskan metal belt. The vein and veinlet mineralization consist of chalcopyrite, pyrite, magnetite, chalcocite, bornite, covellite, malachite and iron oxides associated with ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Geochemical aspects of alteration system in the Kamar-Gov district, western Alborz-Azerbaijan magmatic belt, north-west of Iran

Robabeh Masoomi; Yousef Rahimsouri; Hemayat Jamali; Ali Abedini

Volume 33, Issue 2 , June 2023, , Pages 43-66

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.355165.2023

Abstract
  The aim of this research is the geochemical study of the major and trace elements of the alteration systems in the Kamar-Gov district (south of Hashtjin, Ardabil province). The rock units of  the studied area include volcanic rocks with the composition of basaltic-trachy andesite to rhyolite and ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Petrology, geochemistry and chemical nature of the Goft and Mohammadabad manganese ore host rocks, in the Late Cretaceous volcanic-sedimentary sequence southwest of Sabzevar

Shaghayegh Sadat Hashempour; Sajjad Maghfouri; Ebrahim Rastad

Volume 33, Issue 1 , February 2023, , Pages 179-196

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.341490.1996

Abstract
  The Goft and Mohammadabad manganese deposits are located in the southwestern part of Sabzevar, whitin the Late Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary sequences. This sequence is located inside a 100 km long folded structure with northeast-southwest trend. Mohammadabad manganese deposit located in the southeastern ...  Read More

Economic Geology
An approach to the origin of the Nineh Lead-Zinc deposit, the north of Mahallat, Markazi Province; insight from mineralogical, fluid inclusion and stable isotope (C-O-S) studies

Shayan Akrami; Mohammad Ali Aliabadi; Mohammad Reza Hazareh; Abbas Askari; Tayebeh Ramezani

Volume 33, Issue 1 , February 2023, , Pages 197-212

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.314372.1951

Abstract
  Nineh Pb-Zn deposit is located in the east of the Markazi province, in the Middle to Upper Jurassic rock units of the Malayer-Esfahan  metallogenic belt. Stratified and epigenetic mineralization, in the form of veins, replacement and open spaces filling, including the main minerals of galena, sphalerite ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Genesis of the Miandasht copper deposit, East of Mayamey: Based on geological, mineralogical and geochemical evidences

Fatemeh Esmaeili; Fardin mousivand; Mahmoud Sadeghian; Seyed Mehran Heidari

Volume 32, Issue 4 , December 2022, , Pages 305-318

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.293355.1919

Abstract
  Miandasht copper deposit is located in 110 km east of Shahrood, 24km north west of Abbasabad, and in the Cenozoic volcanic belt of north of Central Iran zone. The major rock units of the study area have Eocene age and include submarine flows (andesite, basalt, and trachyandesit), pyroclastic (tuff breccia ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Deformation, alteration and fluid inclusion studies in the Mirgenaghshineh orogenic gold deposit, Northwest of Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone

Hossein Ali Tajeddin; Ebrahim Rastad; Abdolmajid Yaghoubpour; Mohammad Mohajjel

Volume 32, Issue 4 , December 2022, , Pages 319-336

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.232116.1795

Abstract
  The Mirgenaghshineh gold deposit is located 43 km northwest of Saqqez in the northwestern part of the Sanandaj–Sirjan zone. The rocks in the deposit area predominantly consist of Precambrian volcanosedimentary sequences of schist, metasandstone, slate and metaandesite which are intruded by granitoid ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Geology, mineralization, alteration and fluid inclusion studies of the Janja porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, Sistan Suture Zone, SE Iran

Nima Rahimi; Shojaeddin Niroomand; Mohammad Lotfi; Mojtaba Rahimi Shahid

Volume 32, Issue 3 , September 2022, , Pages 13-30

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.274408.1889

Abstract
  The Janja Cu-Mo porphyry deposit is located at 70 km south of the Nehbandan, Sistan suture zone, Eastern Iran. The porphyry mineralization in the Janja deposit is temporally and spatially associated with the diorite to quartz diorite and granodiorite granular to porphyry stocks that intruded in the Cretaceous ...  Read More

Economic Geology
The Barzavand copper deposit, NW Naein, Esfahan Province: Constraints on mineralization and geochemistry of alteration system

Shahram Mobaser; Taher Farhadinejad; Abbas Asgari; Mohammad Ali Ali Abadi; Shirin Fatahi

Volume 32, Issue 3 , September 2022, , Pages 31-48

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.299006.1929

Abstract
  The Barzavand copper deposit with Oligocene age located in 30 Km northeast of Zefreh along a tension fault with W-E trend and developed within basaltic lava with stratabound form. Alterations mainly include: pyritization, propylitization, zeolitization, silicification, saussuritization and uralitization ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Mineralization, Fluid inclusion, and stable isotope studies (O, S) of the Godar Sorkh gold deposit, Muteh, Sanandaj-Sirjan

Monireh Sakhdari; Mehrdad Behzadi; Mohammad Yazdi; Nematollah Rashidnejad-Omran; Morteza Sadeghi Naeini

Volume 32, Issue 3 , September 2022, , Pages 49-60

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2021.291598.1914

Abstract
  The Godar Sorkh area is located in the central part of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, 20 km southwest of the Muteh region. Gold mineralization at Godar Sorkh occurs in quartz-sulfide veins that hosted in metasedimentary rocks. Veins of mineralization typically formed along normal faults.  Rock sequences ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Mineralogy, geochemistry and tectono-magmatic setting of the granitoids in the Baghak Fe skarn deposit, Sangan mining district, NE Iran

Kiamars Hosseini; Majid Shahpasandzadeh; Roghayeh zabihi khargh

Volume 32, Issue 3 , September 2022, , Pages 61-78

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.295975.1921

Abstract
  The Sangan Mining District (SMD) in the north of the Cenozoic magmatic belt of eastern Iran is constituted of predominantly acidic to intermediate volcanic and pyroclastic rocks, intruded by the Eocene granitoids. In the Baghak Fe skarn deposit, these granitoids are composed of pre-mineralization ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Mineralization of chromite and ilmenite in Kurdistan ophiolite: An approach to determine the geotectonic setting

Mohammad Ali Rajabzadeh; Mohammad Amini

Volume 32, Issue 3 , September 2022, , Pages 133-144

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.308944.1941

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Study of Tareek Darreh Gold and Copper Occurrence North Torbat-e-Jam- Khorasan-Razavi Province, NE-Iran

Kourosh Shabani; Nima Nezafati; Morteza Momenzadeh; Mohammad Hashem Emami; Seyed Jamal Shaykhzakaryaii

Volume 32, Issue 2 , July 2022, , Pages 59-74

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2022.313817.1955

Abstract
  The Tareek Darreh gold Gold & Copper deposit is located 40km north of Torbat- e Jam in the Khorasan-Razavi province,NE-Iran. The study area is mainly comprised of slightly metamorphosed, sedimentary rocks of Jurassic age including alternation of shale, siltstone, and sandstone. These rocks have been ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Geology, structure and mineralization of Cu (± Au) hydrothermal-magmatic deposits of Saveh-Razan region

Seyed Mehran Heidari; Sara Safavy; Afshin Akbarpour; Azra Hassanlou; Bahram Mohaghegh

Volume 32, Issue 2 , July 2022, , Pages 89-104

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2021.276571.1894

Abstract
  Saveh-Razan copper (± gold) area, with WNW direction in the northwest of Urmia-Dokhtar magmatic belt, with the highest reaction to right-sided shear zones and structural trend change during the Oligomyocene, leads to the placement of semi-deep Oligomyocene diorite massifs in shallow rock depths. ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Genesis of the MohammadAbad polymetallic deposit, Delijan: using Geochemistry, and C, O, S isotopes

Ali reza zarasvandi; Mohammad Ali Ali Abadi; Mohsen Rezaei; Houshang Pourkaseb

Volume 32, Issue 1 , March 2022, , Pages 43-56

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2021.250340.1847

Abstract
  The Mohammadabad deposit is located in vicinity of Delijan in central province and in terms of structural zones of Iran,in the Uremia dokhtar zone. Stratabound Fe-Ce mineralization in brecciated, vein, massive, layered and laminar forms, consists ore minerals such as hematite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Zircon trace elements and oxygen fugacities of parental magma of Maher abad and Khopik Cu porphyries, Lut block

Almasi Alireza; Ghasem Nabatian; Amir Mahdavi; Qiuli Li

Volume 32, Issue 1 , March 2022, , Pages 73-88

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2021.280411.1896

Abstract
  The Maher abad and Khopik porphyry Cu deposits occurred in the Upper Eocene (39-37 Ma) in Lut block. All of them associated with intermediate (mostly monzonite) rocks. Porphyry deposits are closely associated with oxidized magmas. Oxygen fugacity (fO2) is a key factor that controls the formation of porphyry ...  Read More