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Geology, geochemistry and genesis of the Darreh Amrood Pb (Ag) deposit in the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc, south of Ghohrood

Document Type : Original Research Paper

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1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

2 M.Sc., Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

Abstract

The Darreh Amrood Pb (Ag) deposit is located in south of Ghohrood, in the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc (UDMA). Host rockes to the deposit are Middle to Late Eocene grey-green siliceous tuff and crystal lithic tuff. Geometry of orebodies is stratabound, irregular, and semiconcordant to discordant to layering of the host rocks. Ore structures and textures are dominated by semi-massive to brecciated, banded and vein-veinlets. Main primary minerals are galena, pyrite and chalcopyrite, and secondary minerals are dominated by covelline, goethite and hematite. Gangue minerals are epidote, chlorite, sericite, clay minerals, quartz, calcite and barite. Wall rock alterations are dominated by epidote-chlorite and sericitic. The rare earth element (REE) pattern of ores is not similar to that of volcanic rocks in the footwall and hangingwall that is concordant with sub-seafloor replacement process for ore formation. Also Ce showed negative anomaly that can be attributed to Ce in the seawater. Also based on structural, stratigraphic, petrographic, textures, mineralogical, alteration and geochemical studies, it is inferred that the Pb (Ag) mineralization in the Darreh Amrood area occurred as bimodal felsic- or Kuroko-type volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) mineralization, and formed as sub-seafloor replacement. It should be noted that the Darreh Amrood deposit is the first recognition of base metal-rich and poor barite VMS mineralization in the UDMA.

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Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences
Volume 29, Issue 114 - Serial Number 114
Volume 29, Serial Number 114, Winter 2019
December 2019
Pages 259-268
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