CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
379 Iran (Yazd) 32.31.17 N -- 055.34.36 E Saghand; Magnetic Anomaly XX U; Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Saghand; Magnetic Anomaly XX
Political location(s): Iran; Province or state: Yazd; Nearest community: Qasbeh Sharqi
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: country rock hosted
Deposit status: deposit; Status comments: Uranium is apparently about to be recovered from a deposit by this name.
Geologic province: Iranian Microplate
Geologic subprovince: Infracambrian-Cambrian cover
Geologic district: Bafq volcanic district
Deposit object located: open pit
Commodities: U; Fe
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic - Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Early Cambrian (related magmatics)
Mineralogy: magnetite
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous) The iron oxide "Kiruna-type" mineralization is thought to be associated with the Early Cambrian Kashmar-Kerman Volcano-Plutonic Arc (back arc or continental arc). Dating by Torab and Lehman (2007) supports this link. A low grade uranium deposit of the name Saghand, probably one or more of several Saghand zones, is now reported to be under development. Uranium-thorium mineralization of a "metasomatic" type hase been reported by Samani (1988) to be in contact with the iron mineralization. It is inferred to be later than the iron mineralization, which may have acted as a geochemical factor in its precipitation.

(Applies to: location and access) The location of this deposit was taken from an open pit to the northwest of the buildings and infrastructure of a newish underground low grade uranium mine of the same name. It looks like a number of stockpile surrenound the open pit.
References:
Förster, H.; Jaferzadeh, A., 1994
The Bafq Mining District in Central Iran - A Highly Mineralized Infracambrian Volcanic Field
Economic Geology, Volume 89, p. 1697 - 1721

Samani, B. A., 1988
Metallogeny of the Precambrian in Iran
Precambrian Research, p. 85 - 106

Torab, F. M.; Lehman, B., 2007
Magnetite-apatite deposits of the Bafq district, Central Iran: apatite geochemistry and monazite geochronology
Mineralogical Magazine, Volume 71, p. 347 - 363

Associated group(s): Bafq District (8)

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