Database name: |
World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits |
Compilers: |
Sunil S. Gandhi |
Release date: |
2015-03-03 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Saghand; Magnetic Anomaly XX |
Longitude / Latitude: |
55.57667 / 32.52139 |
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 |
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