Document Type : Original Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mining and Metallurgy Engineering, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Earth Science, Shahid Behshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 Assistant Professor,Research Institute of the Earth Sciences, Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The Mirkuh Ali Mirza gold mineralization is located in north Sarab in the Western Alborz–Azerbaijan structural zone. Mineralization was formed in the form of a vein occurring in Neogene dacitic and rhyodacitic tuff along a series of NW–SE trending fault; Mineralization associated with quartz-sericite-adularia-calcite and pyrite(<1%) assemblages is a typical of low-sulfidation epithermal gold mineralization. The fluid inclusion data from quartz minerals indicate homogenization temperature of 161-260°C and salinities of 0.5 to 6.5 wt% NaCl equiv. The variation in gold grade in quartz vein is 270-3240 ppb. The highest gold content is in lattice and breccias quartz that can indicate direct relationship between boiling to gold deposition. The idea is supported by coexistence of vapor-dominant and liquid-dominant fluid inclusions.
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