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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lorestan, Khoramabad, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran
4 Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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 Cu deposits. The composition of the major and trace elements of zircon grains related to several ore-bearing monzonite were measured in Maher abad and Khopik porphyry copper indices. Zircon grains show moderate to low Ce4+/Ce3+ with a range of 19 to 610 and an average of 155. The average of oxygen fugacity (logfO2) values of Meher abad and Khopik ore-bearing magmas, range ∆FMQ -3.2 to MFMQ -1.3 with mean ∆FMQ -2.2, indicate formation under moderate oxidation conditions (between Ni-NiO (NNO) and Faylite magnetite-quartz (FMQ) buffers, but magnetite-hematite (HM) buffer, which ), which is not ideal for the formation of porphyry deposits. This is supported by whole-rock and Sr-isotopic data, and absence of high oxidation minerals such as hematite, and the poor adakitic charactristic of rocks in both deposits, which are due to factors involved in magma origin such as rock type and partial melting rate (possibly peridotite with low participation of slab).
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