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dc.contributor.authorSabet-Mobarhan-Talab, A.
dc.contributor.authorAlinia, F.
dc.contributor.authorGhannadpour, Seyed Saeed
dc.contributor.authorHezarkhani, A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-06T06:14:03Z
dc.date.available2018-02-06T06:14:03Z
dc.date.created2018-02-06T05:42:48Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationSabet-Mobarhan-Talab, A. and Alinia, F. and Ghannadpour, S.S. and Hezarkhani, A. 2015. Geology, geochemistry, and some genetic discussion of the Chador-Malu iron oxide-apatite deposit, Bafq District, Central Iran. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 8 (10): pp. 8399-8418.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62862
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12517-015-1813-8
dc.description.abstract

© 2015, Saudi Society for Geosciences.The Chador-Malu iron oxide-apatite system (Bafq District, Central Iran) contains the largest known iron ore deposit in Iran (pre-mining reserve of 400 Mt @ 55 % Fe), and comprises the pipe-like northern (this study) and the sill-like southern orebodies of predominantly massive ore, and a sodic-calcic alteration envelope. The geology and geochemistry of the Chador-Malu deposit demonstrates its similar characteristics to the Kiruna-type deposits. There is circumstantial evidence for rare earth elements (REE) mobilization during apatite leaching by high-temperature fluids and associated monazite nucleation. Pervasive actinolitization of the rhyolitic country rocks led to the formation of actinolite-rich metasomatic host rocks, which represent another evidence for high-temperature fluids at Chador-Malu. Hydrothermal mineralization is suggested by small iron ore veins (2–3 cm thick) and breccias cemented by iron oxides, as well as a Fe-metasomatism which overprints all types of host rock alteration. Based on REE geochemistry and spatial relationships, it is proposed that a potential source for metals and P could be late-stage Fe-P melt differentiates of the Cambrian magmatism, which is consistent with the late Fe-metasomatism of the host rocks. The proposed Fe-P melts and the mineralization would be linked by hydrothermal media through the zones of ring fracture at Chador-Malu and similar parts of the Bafq district.

dc.publisherSpringer
dc.titleGeology, geochemistry, and some genetic discussion of the Chador-Malu iron oxide-apatite deposit, Bafq District, Central Iran
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume8
dcterms.source.number10
dcterms.source.startPage8399
dcterms.source.endPage8418
dcterms.source.issn1866-7511
dcterms.source.titleArabian Journal of Geosciences
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