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  1 - Geology, mineralogy, alteration and potential of Lakhshak deposit, the Sistan suture zone based on geophysical studies (IP/RS)
  نسیم  حیدریان دهکردی شجاع‌الدین  نیرومند شهرام  ادیب Hossein Ali Tajeddin Saeid Mirzaei
  Lakhshak deposit is located 28 km northwest of Zahedan in the Sistan suture zone. The rocks in the Lakhshak area predominantly consist of Eocene volcanosedimentary and metamorphosed (greenshist facies) rocks. The mineralogy of the ore is simple and consists of stibnite, More

  Lakhshak deposit is located 28 km northwest of Zahedan in the Sistan suture zone. The rocks in the Lakhshak area predominantly consist of Eocene volcanosedimentary and metamorphosed (greenshist facies) rocks. The mineralogy of the ore is simple and consists of stibnite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and electrum. The Lakhshak deposit is hosted in the shear and altered calc-shist unit which is associated with quartz, sericite-muscovite and sulfide alteration minerals. Based on geophysical studies, using induction polarity and special resistance (IP/RS) in the Lakhshak sheared area, combined with the results of geological, metamorphic and mineralization information, calligraphic calcification units, fault zones and metamorphosed areas have a high potential for Au-Sb mineralization. Therefore, using the amount of changes in specific resistance and chargeability, as well as the intensity of chargeability in the profiles, can appropriately identify the promising area for gold and stibnite mineralizations. This study indicates that the main characteristics of the geology and mineralization of the Lakhshak, such as the nature of the host rock, the form of mineralization, metamorphism and associated alterations, is similar to orogenic gold deposits. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Geology, mineralization and genesis of the Madabad celestite deposit, south Zanjan
  مهسا  نوری Hossein Kouhestani قاسم  نباتیان میرعلی اصغر  مختاری افشین  زهدی
  Rock units in the Madabad celestite deposit are composed of medium to thick-bedded and massive limestone interlayered with marly limestone and marl units of the Qom Formation (lower Miocene). Mineralization occurs as lens-shaped orebody, hosted by limestone units of mem More

  Rock units in the Madabad celestite deposit are composed of medium to thick-bedded and massive limestone interlayered with marly limestone and marl units of the Qom Formation (lower Miocene). Mineralization occurs as lens-shaped orebody, hosted by limestone units of member of the Qom Formation usually crosscutting bedding of the host rocks. Three stages of mineralization occurred in the Madabad deposit. The first stage is characterized by calcite formation during syn-depositional to syn-diagenesis processes. The second stage is related to hydrothermal processes that are distinguished by formation of fine-grained and sugary crystals of massive stage-1 celestite, vein-veinlets of coarse-grained stage-2 celestite along with minor strontianite and barite, coarse-grained euhedral crystals of stage-3 celestite with vug infilling texture, and finally late-stage quartz and calcite vein-veinlets. Stage three includes supergene processes. Hydrothermal alteration includes dolomitization, calcitization and silicification. Celestite along with minor strontianite and barite are ore minerals, and calcite, dolomite, quartz and iron oxides-hydroxides are gangue minerals at Madabad. The ore minerals show vein-veinlets, vug infilling, brecciated and cataclastic textures. Microthermometric measurements of two-phase liquid-rich fluid inclusions hosted in celestite II indicate that salinities values range from 6 to 18 wt.% NaCl equiv. (avg. 10.6 wt.% NaCl equiv.). These inclusions have homogenization temperatures range from 248 to 365 °C, with an average of 278 °C. These data indicate a minimum trapping depth of 510 m for the Madabad deposit. Sr was originated from evaporate units within the marly parts of the Qom Formation and volcanic units of the Karaj Formation. Characteristics of the Madabad deposit are similar to epigenetic replacement celestite deposits. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Exploration analysis and determining the relationship between mineralization and faults as a new exploration key in the Sirjan-Beshneh copper deposit
  Reza Ahmadi S.J. Hosseini Shahraki
  Sirjan-Beshneh copper deposit with 0.5 kilometer area is located in Kerman province 80 kilometers west of Sirjan city. The variety of exploration activities including remote-sensing, field traverses, geophysical explorations, surface explorations comprising surface samp More

  Sirjan-Beshneh copper deposit with 0.5 kilometer area is located in Kerman province 80 kilometers west of Sirjan city. The variety of exploration activities including remote-sensing, field traverses, geophysical explorations, surface explorations comprising surface sampling and geochemical analysis of 94 samples, drilling and surveying three trenches with sampling and analysis of six samples as well as drilling of eight deep exploration borehole with the total length of 414.5 meter, have been carried out in the metallic deposit. All faults in the region were mapped based on the remote-sensing and structural geology operations of the region. In the present research, all exploration activities carried out in the Beshneh copper deposit were analyzed through investigating their relationship with the faults in the region. To achieve this goal, various techniques including drawing rose-diagram of faults, processing of resistivity and chargeability data of rectangle survey and smoothed inversion of data for five dipole-dipole profiles, imaging isograde maps for the surface and trench samples as well as 3-D modeling of exploration boreholes assays of the region were employed. The results showed that locations of mineralization related to the fractures and faults present in the region since the trend of most mineralized veins is along the main faults. At the end, in order to complete the explorations of the previous stages to get a better recognition of the deposit, drilling of several new exploration boreholes was proposed based on all performed studies and integrating obtained results as an exploration key.. Manuscript profile