جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « ایجو » در نشریات گروه « زمین شناسی »

Iju porphyry deposit is associated with the emplacement of Miocene tonalite-granodiorite intrusions (zircon U/Pb dating; 9.27±0.50) within Eocene volcanic and pyroclastic sequences including andesite, basaltic andesite, trachyandesite, andesitic breccias, tuffaceous breccias, and agglomerate. In this study, occurrence and chemistry of magnetites in the potassic alteration of Iju deposit were assessed using EMPA analysis. The findings imply for a limited occurrence of magnetite as fine-grained disseminated and/or product of biotite chloritization. Magnetites associated with potassic alteration of Iju deposit don’t show hematite intergrowth (as martitizied margin) and anhydrite paragenesis, indicating the lack of high oxygen fugacity (near magnetite-hematite buffers; ~ΔFMQ+4) during the magnetite crystallization in the potassic alteration. Studied magnetites are high temperature (>500 °C) and according to the Mg + Al + Si contents crystallized under low rate of fluid rock interaction. These evidences accompanied with the absence of reequilibration processes could imply for the lack of repeated stages of hydrothermal fluid exsolving during the evolution of potassic alteration in the in the Iju deposit. Additionally, results represent that there are considerable values of Ga (average; 0.015 wt. %) in the studied magnetites providing insights into the presence of unseen exploration potentials associated with porphyry Cu deposits of UDMB.

IntroductionThe Iju porphyry copper deposit is located in the southern part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc (Dehaj-Sarduieh belt) within the Kerman copper belt (Dimitrijevic, 1973). The Porphyry Copper mineralization in the Iranian plate occurs dominantly along the Urumieh-Dokhtar arc, which has resulted from the subduction of the Arabian plate beneath the central Iran and the closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean during the Alpine orogeny (Hassanzadeh, 1993). The Iju porphyry copper deposit with 25 million tons of ore reserves is one of the main copper deposits within the Kerman copper belt. The mining area is composed of upper Miocene volcanic and subvolcanic rocks (mineralized and barren subvolcanic rocks) and quaternary deposits. Two hydrothermal alteration zones of quartz-sericite-pyrite and propylitic zones can be identified in the Iju area. The copper mineralization in the Iju deposit occurs as disseminated, stockwork and hydrothermal breccia. In the hypogene zone, the mineral paragenesis include chalcopyrite, pyrite, with minor occurrences of bornite and magnetite. This paper reports geological, mineralogical, fluid inclusion and S isotope data from the Iju deposit in order to investigate ore-bearing fluids’ characteristics and the mechanisms of ore deposition.
Materials and methodsFifteen samples of syngenetic quartzꜪ bearing veinlets within the quartz-sericite-pyrite zone were selected from different depths across the seven boreholes. Quartz was used for double-polished thin sections and pyrite was used for sulfur isotope analysis. Fluid inclusion studies were performed using the Linkam cooling and heating stage, the THMSG 600 model. The syngenetic pyrite with thermometry quartz sample was used for the sulfur isotope experiments. Stable isotope analysis was performed at the Hatch Stable Isotope Laboratory in the University of Ottawa, Canada.
ResultsThe fluid inclusions of the Iju deposit represent a wide range in the homogenization temperatures between 140 to 480°C and salinity between 0.18 to >52.99 wt.% NaCl equiv., which are most similar to the results of the other Iranian porphyry copper deposits. Being located in the quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration zone, the results of thermometry indicates that ore deposition in the Iju deposit has occurred via mixing of magmatic and surface fluids. Variations in salinity and paragenesis of the saline multiphase fluid inclusions and two-phase gas-rich fluid inclusions indicate the occurrence of boiling phenomenon in some samples of the Iju deposit. The amount of δ34S for pyrite has a limited range close to zero (average, 0.229‰) that shows a magmatic origin for sulfur. Considering the presence of subvolcanic rocks, the type and extension of alteration zones, the structure and texture of ore bodies, thermometry results of fluid inclusions and sulfur isotope values, the Iju deposit is similar to porphyry copper deposits.
DiscussionIn the quartz-sericite-pyrite zone, three main groups of veinlets have been identified. The quartzꜪ veinlets are more abundant than the other types and they were selected for fluid inclusions and stable isotope studies. Petrographic studies of fluid inclusions identifies two groups of fluids including: 1- fluid inclusions without the halite phase, including the types L, L埤 and (L埤뗹, that is secondary), 2- fluid inclusions with halite phase, including the types L埡, L埡﹋, L埡﹋徒 and L埡﹋往. Homogenization temperature and salinity for the fluid inclusions without halite phase are as follows: 140 to 380°C and 0.18 to 24 wt.% NaCl (Fig. 8A and C) and for the fluid inclusions with halite phase they range from 230 to 480°C and 30 to 52 wt.% NaCl (Fig. 9A, B and D), In addition, the pressure and depth for the fluid inclusions containing halite phase are 750 bar and 3500 m on the average. Fluid inclusions available at the quartz veinlets of porphyry copper deposits can be formed in a wide range of chemical composition and under different temperature and pressure conditions (Rusk and Reed, 2008). The wide range in fluid inclusions data of the Iju deposit can be justified by physicochemical changes in the fluid as it is boiling and mixing with the surface fluids. Cooling, fluids mixing, boiling and fluid-rock reaction play important roles in the settling of chalcopyrite from the hydrothermal fluid and the dilution of saline ore-bearing fluids can cause the formation of copper ores from the ore-bearing fluid (Ulrich et al., 2002). Pyrite δ34S value ranges from -0.86 to .27‰ (average, .22‰) and the δ34SH2S value of the syngenetic fluid with pyrite ranges from -0.23 to -2.36‰ (average, -1.17‰). The limited and near zero range that is observed about δ34S value of the sulfur minerals indicates the controlling role of magmatic processes in the mineralization events (Chen et al., 2009).

The Iju porphyry stock as a part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt is situated 72 km northwest of Shahr-e Babak city and 147 km west-northwest of Sarcheshmeh porphyry copper deposit. The stock, intruded as a hybabyssal Miocene granitoid (9.25±0.5 Ma) the Eocene volcanic-volcanoclastic rocks and induced mineralization and alteration in the region. The existing phenocrysts in the Iju intrusive rocks including tonalite and quartz diorite with plagioclase, alkali feldspar, biotite and hornblende, which reside in a groundmass consisting of quartz and minor potassium feldspar and secondary minerals. The dominant texture in the rocks is porphyry. Based on petrography and geochemical analyses, the tonalitic rocks in the Iju region are classified as calc-alkaline and arc-related continental margin magmatism. High ratios of Ba/Nb (average 101 ppm) and Ba/Ta (average 1326 ppm) as well as the distribution of mantle-normalized trace elements (enrichment in LREE and LILE relative to HREE and HFSE, negative anomalies in Nb and Ta) indicate formation of the Iju granitoid is related to subduction. Evaluation of geochemical evidence including the amounts of SiO2>56%, Al2O3≥15%, MgO3%, Sr>300 ppm, Y20, La/Yb>20, high enrichment in LREE and low enrichment in HREE show that the parent magma of the Iju tonalite has high silica adakitic affinity. The lack of negative anomalies in Eu and Ba in the rock samples point to the lack of influence of partial melting in the lower crust for this unit formation. Thus, the adakitic magma developed as the result of melting of subducting oceanic crust in the mantle and at the final stages of subduction or post-subduction.