Microscopical studies were carried out, in addition to physico-chemical and mineralogical analysis, in order to evaluate the effect of parent material and weathering on soil genesis in forest regions of Lahijan. Two representative soil pedons in mountain landform developed on granite and andesitic basalt located about 8 km southeast of Lahijan were selected and sampling were taken from each hor...

The Qatruyeh iron occurrences are located in the eastern edge of the Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic zone, southwestern Iran (at 50 Km northeastern of Neyriz), and are hosted by a Late Proterozoic to Early Paleozoic sequence which is dominated by metamorphosed carbonate rocks. The Iron ores occur as layered, massive and disseminated magnetite and in lesser amount as hematite-bearing veins and veinl...

The Noghduz  prospecting area, as a part of the Arasbaran metallogenic zone is located about 20 km east of Ahar, East-Azarbaijan Province. The mineralization host rocks are andesite-trachy andesite with the age of  Late  Eocene. The hydrothermal alterations exposed in this area are silicic, argillic, and propylitic. Pyrite is the main hypogene sulfide mineral which is accompanied by lesser amou...

The Sirzar Sb prospecting area is located in northeast of Torbat -e- Jam in Khorasan Razavi Province. Mineralization is found both as vein and replacement within carbonate rock (Permian). Two primary stages of mineralization are: 1) galena ± pyrite ± chalcopyrite ± sphalerite ± sulfosalte ± Cu-Sb sulfides, quartz and barite. 2) Stibnite ± pyrite ± sphalerite ± fuloppite, quartz, barite, dolomit...

Hormuz series in Zendan salt dome, Neoprotozoic-Early Cambrian rocks is located near Bandar-e-Lengeh in western Hormozgan Province. In this salt dome, iron calcic skarns are present near the basic igneous bodies that have copper hydrothermal deposits. Carbonate sedimentary sequences, carbonate tuffs and igneous rocks are the host rocks of these skarns. The calcsilicates in the endoskarn include...