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Volume 21, Issue 3 (10-2013)
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Bot-e-Gaz prospect area is located 34 km north of Torbate-e-Jam, Khorasan Razavi Province. Geology of the area includes diorite, granodiorite, and syenogranite intrusinos that intruded in metamorphic rocks. Magnetic susceptibility of intrusive rocks is <5× 10-5 SI and belong to ilmenite series (reduced type). These intrusive rocks are metaluminous to peraluminous and vary from medium potassium calk-alkaline to shoshonite series. Four types of alterations were identified, which includes propylitic, sericitic, silicification, and carbonation – silicification. Mineralization is vein-type with NW-SE direction and N60E slope, which formed on the boundary of hornblende biotite granodiorite with metamorphosed sandstone and inside this metamorphosed unit. The hypogene minerals are galena, sphalerite, quartz, calcite, as well as minor chalcopyrite and pyrite. Anomalies of Pb (up to 9% ppm), Zn (up to 2.5% ppm), Cu (up to 7039 ppm), Ag (up to 226 ppm), Sb (up to 334 ppm), and As (up to 533ppm) are present in lithogechemical analysis, which are related to the vein-type mineralization. IP/RS studies was done in nine profiles perpendicular to the sulfide mineralization zone using  Dipole- Dipole method, which showed two main anomalous zone. The first anomalous zone with NW-SE trend is well coincided with old tunnel and previous working. Mineralization and geochemistry studies indicate development of sulfide minerals in this portion of the area. The second anomalous zone exists in northeastern part of the district as relatively small area. Mineralization extent to the north and northeast of the area and is limited to the southeast, which is related to the fault on the area. Mineral assemblages, form of mineralization, alteration type and their distribution, geochemical anomaly of Pb and Zn ± Cu, and higher content of Sb relative to Bi associated with Galena indicate that mineralization is low temperature epithermal.


Fatemeh Zamani, Seyed Reza Moussavi-Harami, Hamed Zand-Moghadam, Asadoalllah Mahboubi,
Volume 28, Issue 2 (6-2020)
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The hosted-rocks of the Pb-Zn ore deposits in two mines of Karavangah and Dehno (north of Kuhbanan) contain carbonate rocks of the Shotori Formation (Middle Triassic).The identified carbonate facies consists of limestone and dolomite, but ore bodies mainly occurred in dolomite facies. Petrographic studies show that the dolomites can be divided into four classes including fine crystalline, medium crystalline, coarse crystalline and saddle dolomites. Geochemical data (major and trace elements) of dolomites have almost similar characteristics and show a noticeable enrichment of lead and zinc. Also, significant enrichment and similar trend are observed in the REE of hosted-rock samples. Therefore, due to similarity between geochemical characteristics of the hosted-rocks, it seems that magnesium source for dolomitization was mainly seawater, but the influence of ore fluids is significant on the formation of coarse crystalline dolomites.
Mehrdad, Bonyadi, Hosseini, Bayati,
Volume 30, Issue 1 (4-2022)
Abstract

Mehdiabad zinc-lead-barite deposit is located in the Central Iran structural zone and about 116 km southeast of Yazd. The host rock of this deposit is Lower Cretaceous dolomitic limestone of the Taft Formation . The main ore minerals in the Mehdiabad East Ridge ore zone include hemimorphite, hydrozincite, cerussite, and chalcophanite. Ore textures are mainly replacement, brecciated, and open-space filling. As a result of supergene and weathering processes, the sulfide minerals (sphalerite and galena) have been changed to non-sulfide minerals such as hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and cerussite. Statistical analysis of geochemical data indicates that the elements in the ore could be divided into three groups: terrigenous, host rock-forming, and ore-forming elements. Formation of iron-rich dolomite, ankerite, and siderite indicates high concentrations of iron and manganese in the mineralizing fluid. Based on this study, the characteristics of the Mehdiabad deposit are very similar to the Mississippi-Valley type deposits.
 

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