CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
565 Armenia 40.25.00 N -- 044.31.00 E Abovyan; Kaputan Fe; P
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Abovyan; Kaputan
Political location(s): Armenia; Nearest community: Yerevan (20 km NE)
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: Fe oxide subtype
Deposit status: prospect; Size category: 450 - 500 mio t; Status comments: Magmatic deposit in post-middle miocene sequence of sandstones, andesites, andesite porphyrite and breccias, with some dacite; investigated since 1961; Fe 20-65% in massive-brecciated ore, 25-30% in d
Commodities: Fe; P
Mineralization styles: magnetite lenses, stratabound; dissemination; breccia-fillings
Geological ages: Cenozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; intermediate volcanic rocks; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental; Metamorphic grade: none
Individual lithologies:andesite

(2) sedimentary; sandstone; Depositional setting: fluviatile-lacustrine
Individual lithologies:sandstone
sandstone (clayey)
Metallogenic signatures: Fe-P
Mineralogy: (gangue): ilmenite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, calcite, fluorite, quartz
(mineralization): magnesite, apatite, hematite
References:
Anonymous, 1977
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
in The Iron Ore Deposits of Europe and Adjacent Areas: Explanatory Notes to the International Map of the Iron Ore Deposits of Europe, 1:2,500,000 (Lists and Tables), Edited by Zitzmann, A., International Geological Congress, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Subcommission for the Metallogenic Map of the World, Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Postfach 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51, Volume II, 386 p, p. 218 - 283

Zitzmann, A., 1977
The Iron Ore Deposits of the Western U. S. S. R.
Section The Iron Ore Deposits of Europe and Adjacent Areas, in The Iron Ore Deposits of Europe and Adjacent Areas: Explanatory Notes to the International Map of the Iron Ore Deposits of Europe, 1:2,500,000 (Text and Figures), Edited by Walther, H. W.; Zitzmann, A., International Geological Congress, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Subcommission for the Metallogenic Map of the World, Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Postfach 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51, Volume I, 418 p, p. 325 - 391


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