Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

1 M.Sc. Student, Research Institute for Earth Sciences, Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Earth Sciences, Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran

3 Ph. D., Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran

4 M.Sc., MID Co Mining, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The Darreh Rahim Iron deposit occurred in 2km northwest of Ghohroud village, 25 km south of Kashan city, in Ghamsar county suburb, Isfahan province, on Urumyeh-Dokhtar magmatic belt. . Based on the petrography data, the main intrusive body of the district has medium to coarse granular texture and granodiorite rock composition. Injection of this intrusive body in the Cretaceous age limestone caused the formation of skarn processes and related Iron mineralization. An assemblage of pyroxene, chlorite, garnet, calcite and quartz are the main components of skarn and also gang minerals of the ore. Also all evidences of mineralogy, structure and texture, geochemistry and tectonic setting and Ni/(Cr+Mn)toTi+V andCa+Al+Mn toTi+V diagrams showed a similarity of the DarrehRhim ore deposit to Iron-Copper mineralization.

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