CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-03
   
Deposit name(s): Choghart
Longitude / Latitude: 55.46861 / 31.70000
Political location(s): Iran; Province or state: Yazd; Subprovince or locality: Qasbeh Qarbi
Deposit clan (type): Kiruna-type
Deposit (sub) types: country rock hosted
Deposit status: producer
Geologic province: Iranian Microplate
Geologic subprovince: Infracambrian-Cambrian cover
Geologic district: Bafq volcanic district
Deposit object located: open pit
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic - Early Cambrian (host rocks)
Cambrian (mineralization)
Cambrian (related magmatics)
References:
Berberian, M.; King, G. C. P., 1981
Towards a Paleogeography and Tectonic Evolution of Iran
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 18, p. 210 - 265

Förster, H.; Borumandi, H., 1971
Jungpräcambrischemagnetit-Lava Und Magnetit-Tuffe Aus Dem Zentraliran
Die Naturwisenschaften, Volume 58, p. 524 - 525

Förster, H.; Bachtiar, I.; Borumandi, H., 1973
Petrographische Detailuntersunchungen Im Bereich Der Eisenerzlagerstätten Von Bafq (Zentraliran)
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, Volume 124, p. 121 - 134

Förster, H., 1987
Ignimbritic Cauldrons, Alkali Granites, and Mineral Deposits in Fault-Block Mountains
Geologische Rundshau, Volume 76, p. 373 - 388

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

Haghipour, A.; Pelissier, G., 1968
Geology of the Post-E-Badam-Saghand Area (East-Central Iran)
Iran Geological Survey Note, Iran Geological Survey, Publication code Note 48, 144 p.

Haghipour, A. , 1977
Geological Map of the Biabanak-Bafq Area
Iran Geological Survay, Scale 500000

Mücke, A.; Younessi, R., 1994
Magnetite-Apatite Deposits (Kiruna-Type) Along the Sanandaj-Sirhan Zone and in the Bafq Area, Iran, Associated with Ultramafic and Calc-Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites
Mineralogy and Petrology, Volume 50, p. 219 - 244

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

Sheikhikhou, H., 1992
Erzmikroscopische und Microsondenanalytische Untersuchung der Lagerstätte Gole Gohar/Iran und Deren Vergleich Mit den Kiruna Type Magnetite Lagerstatten: Kiruna/Schweden, Bafq/Iran, Avnik/Turkei, El Laco, Chile, Sowie Den Lagerstatten Phallaborwa/SA
Thesis, University of Gottingen, 114 p.

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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