Yazdan Lead- Zinc and Barite deposit, an example of SEDEX-Type deposits in the western Central Iran structural zone

Jafar Kupayi, Mohammad; Rastad, Ebrahim; Madanipour, Saeed; Maghfouri, Sajjad

doi:10.22071/gsj.2019.185708.1654

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

¹ M.Sc. Student, Department of Economic Geology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² Professor, Department of Economic Geology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Tectonics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Geology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2019.185708.1654

Abstract

Cretaceous sedimentary sequence in the Yazdan area is consisting of four rock units as, from the old to the new, clastic-carbonate (Kc), carbonate (Kl), Shale and marl (Km) sequences, and Sandy limestone and sandstone (Kls). The Kls unit is host of ore mineralization in the study area and formed from four members. Ore mineralization in the Yazdan Deposit has occurred as a stratiform horizon in the sandstone units of the third member. Texture and structures studies, shown three ore facies with elemental zonation in the Yazdan Deposit. These ore facies includes, stringer zone, massive ore facies and the bedded ore facies. This ore facies formed from laminated and layered sulfide and sulfate minerals. Fluid inclusions studies represents 255-136 ° C of homogeneity temperature with an average temperature of 189 ° C. Also, the salinity of fluid inclusions was calculated to be between 14.6-6% NaCl (on average, 9.5% NaCl). Geological evidence, host rocks type, texture and structures, existence of ore facies with elemental zoning as well as fluid inclusion investigations indicate the Yazdan Deposit has most similarity with Sedex-type deposit.

Keywords

20.1001.1.10237429.1399.30.117.24.2

Main Subjects

Economic Geology

References

References

Ansdell, K. M., Nesbitt, B. E. and Longstaffe, F. J., 1989- A fluid inclusion and stable isotope study of the Tom Ba-Pb-Zn deposit, Yukon Territory, Canada. - Econ. Geol. 84: 841-856.

Berberian, M. and King, G. C., 1981- Towards a palaeogeography and tectonics evolution of Iran: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 18, p. 210–265. https://doi.org/10.1139/e81-019.

Goodfellow, W. D. and Lydon, J. W., 2007- Sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) deposits. In: Goodfellow W. D., (ed.), Mineral Deposits of Canada: A Synthesis of Major Deposit Types, District Metallogeny, the Evolution of Geological Provinces, and Exploration Methods. Geological association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, Special Publication, V. 5 p. 163-183. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.102.7.1355.

Hitzman. M., Redmond. P. and Beaty. D., 2002- The Carbonate-Hosted Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, County Tipperary, Ireland. Economic Geology, vol: 97, p: 1627-1655. DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.97.8.1627.

Johnson, C., Dumoulin, J., Burruss, R. and Slack, J., 2015- Depositional Conditions for the Kuna Formation, Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag-Barite District, Alaska, Inferred from Isotopic and Chemical Proxies, Economic Geology, Vol. 110, pp. 1143–1156. https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.110.5.1143.

Kelley, K. D., Dumoulin, J. A. and Jennings, S., 2004a- The Anarraaq Zn-Pb-Ag and Barite Deposit, Northern Alaska: Evidence for Replacement of Carbonate by Barite and Sulfides. Economic Geology, vol: 99, p: 1577–1591. https: //doi.org/10.2113/ gsecongeo .99.7.1267.

Kelley, K., Leach, D., Johnson, C., Clark, J., Fayek, M., Slack, J., Anderson, V., Ayuso, R., Ridley, W., 2004b- Textural, compositional, and sulfur isotope variations of sulfide minerals in the Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag deposits, Brooks Range, Alaska: implications for ore formation. Economic Geology, vol: 99, p: 1509-1532. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.99.7.1509.

Kerr, N., 2013- Geology of the Stonepark Zn-Pb prospects, County Limerick, Ireland. M.Sc. thesis, University of Colorado, 131p.

Large, R. R. and McGoldrick, P. J., 1998- Lithogeochemical halos and geochemical vectors to stratiform sediment hosted Zn–Pb–Ag deposits, Part 1. Lady Loretta deposit, Queensland. J. Geochem. Explor. 63, 37–56. DOI: 10.1016/S0375-6742(98)00013-2.

Large, R. R., Bull, S. W., Yang, J., Cooke, D. R., Garven, G., McGoldrick, P. J. and Selley, D., 2007- Controls on the formation of giant stratiform sediment-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag deposits with particular reference to the north Australian Proterozoic. University of Tasmania, Centre for Special Ore Deposit and Exploration (CODES) Studies Publication 4, p. 107−149.

Large, R. R., McGoldrick, P., Bull, S. and Cooke, D., 2004- Proterozoic startiform sediment-hosted zinc-lead-silver deposits of northern Australia, in Deb, M. Goodfellow, W.D., (eds.), Sediment-hosted lead-zinc sulphide deposits: Attributes and models of some major deposits of India, Australia and Canada. Narosa publishing house, Delhi, India, p. 1-24.

Leach, D. L., Sangster, D. F., Kelley, K. D., Large, R. R., Garven, G., Allen, C. R., Gutzmer, J. and Walters, S., 2005- Sedimenthosted Lead-Zinc Deposits: A Global Perspective. Econ.

Leach, D. L., Taylor, R. D., Fey, D. L., Diehl, S. F. and Saltus, R. W., 2010- A deposit model for Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc ores: Chapter A of mineral deposit models for resource assessment. US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5070–A. Reston, VA: US Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.593.

Lee, M. J. and Wilkinson, J. J., 2002- Cementation, hydrothermal alteration, and Zn-Pb mineralization of carbonate breccia’s in the Irish midlands: textural evidence from the Cooleen zone, near Silvermines, county Tipperary, Economic Geology Vol. 97, 2002, pp. 653–662. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.97.3.653.

Li, H. and Xi, X. S., 2015- Sedimentary fans: A new genetic model for sedimentary exhalative ore deposits, Ore Geology Reviews 65. 375–389. DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2014.10.001.

Madanipour, S., Yassaghi, A., Ehlers, T. A. and Enkelmann, E., 2018- Tectonostratigraph, Structural geometry and kinematics of the NW Iranian plateau margin: insights from the talesh mountains, Iran. American Journal of Science, V 158, p.37-46. DOI 10.2475/02.2018.02.

Magnall, J., Gleeson, S., Blamey, N., Paradis, S. and Luo, Y., 2016- The thermal and chemical evolution of hydrothermal vent fluids in shale hosted massive sulphide (SHMS) systems from the MacMillan Pass district (Yukon, Canada). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 193, 251–273. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.07.020.

Mannani, M. and Yazdi, M., 2009- Late Triassic and Early Cretaceous sedimentary sequences of northern Isfahan Province (Central Iran), Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana, V. p. 367-374.

Roedder, E. and Bodnar, R. J., 1980- Geologic pressure determinations from fluid inclusion studies. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, V. 8, p. 263-301.

Shepherd, T. J., Rankin, A. H. and Alderton, D. H. M., 1985- A practical guide to fluid inclusion studies. Blackie, Glasgow, 239 p.

Tribovillard, N., AlGeo, T. J., Lyons, T. and Riboulleau, A., 2006- Trace metals as paleoredox and paleoproductivity proxies: an update. – Chem. Geol. 232: 12 – 32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.02.012.

Wilkinson, J. J., 2001- Fluid inclusions in hydrothermal ore deposits. Lithos, V. 55, p. 229–272.

Wilkinson, J. J., 2014- Sediment-hosted zinc-lead mineralization: processes and perspectives. Treatise on Geochemistry 2nd edition, p. 219-249. DOI.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-095975-7.01109-8.

Wilkinson, J. J., Boyce, A. J., Everett, C. E. and Lee, M. J., 2003- Timing and depth of mineralization in the Irish Zn-Pb orefield. In: Kelly JG, Andrew CJ, and Ashton JH, et al. (eds.) Europe’s Major Base Metal Deposits, pp. 483–497. Dublin: Irish Association for Economic Geology. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.98.1.194.

Wilmsen, M., Fürsich, F. T., Seyed-Emami, K., Majidifard, M. R. and Taheri, J., 2009- The Cimmerian Orogeny, in northern Iran: Tectono-stratigraphic evidence from the foreland. Terra Nova, v. 21, n. 3, p. 211–218. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00876.x.

Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences

Yazdan Lead- Zinc and Barite deposit, an example of SEDEX-Type deposits in the western Central Iran structural zone

References

References

Volume 30, Issue 117
Volume 30, Issue 3, Serial Number 117, Autumn 2020
December 2020
Pages 275-286

Yazdan Lead- Zinc and Barite deposit, an example of SEDEX-Type deposits in the western Central Iran structural zone

References

References

Volume 30, Issue 117Volume 30, Issue 3, Serial Number 117, Autumn 2020December 2020Pages 275-286

Volume 30, Issue 117
Volume 30, Issue 3, Serial Number 117, Autumn 2020
December 2020
Pages 275-286