Study of genesis in Qahr-Abad fluorite deposit using fluid inclusion, southeast of Saqqez, the Kurdistan province

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Mehrdad Barati ¹
• Ebrahim Tale Fazel ¹
• Afshin Akbarpour ²
• Babak Talaei ³
• Masoud Moslehi ¹

¹ Bu-Ali Sina

² Geological Survey and Mineral Exploration of Iran

³ Shiraz

10.22067/econg.v9i1.25875

Abstract

Introduction
The Qahr-abad fluorite deposit is located in the area of 36°10′ 3′′ N and 46°34′ 21′′E within the Sanandaj-Sirjan district east of the Kurdistan province , Iran and it is located ~57 km southeast of the city of Saqqez (Kholghi Khasraghi, 1999). This deposit is developed as scatter lenses, veins, and veinlets (stockwork structure) within carbonate rocks of Elika formation and controlled by the regional NW–SE trending Zagross thrust nappe system. Fault trends in this area are perpendicular to fault trends in the Zagros zone. The fault dips are nearly vertical and mineralization has occurred in the brecciation fault zone (Talaii, 2010). The rough geological instruction of the deposit has indicated that it is similar to worldwide Epithermal deposits.
The mineralization occurs as replacement (type I)/ open-space (type II) vein fillings and bodies within Mesozoic lime stones (mostly Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic members of the Elika Formation), where they crop out to form horst structures. The mineralization is typically associated with post Pliocene disjunctive faults, which in part appear to have served as channel ways for the fluorite forming fluids that are representative of the geological setting of the mineralized area.
Fluorite occurs in several color variations such as green, violet, blue, white or colorless, and is accompanied by quartz, barite and calcite (Moslehi, 2013).

Materials and methods
The minerals sampled for the fluid inclusion study include fluorite from mineralization stages. Samples covered all ore types. Micro thermometry analyses for 23 samples were performed after careful microscopic observation of 35 sections and 30 doubly polished sections. Micro thermometry was undertaken using a Linkam THS600 heating-freezing stage, with a measurable temperature range of between −196 and +600 °C (precision of freezing data and homogenization temperature of ±0.2 °C). Micro thermometry was undertaken in the Department of geology of the Karazmy University.

Results
Petrography and classification of inclusions:
The samples used for the inclusion study were doubly polished sections of fluorite from mineralization stages 1 to 2. A number of inclusion types were identified. These include negative crystals and elongate round, polygonal or irregular shapes with a size range from

Keywords

• Qahr-abad
• fluorite deposit
• fluid inclusions
• Saqqez City
• hydrothermal

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