Sorkheh Dizaj apatite - iron oxide deposit is located in southeast of Zanjan, within the Tarom subzone of Western Alborz - Azarbaijan structural zone. The oldest units in the area are Eocene trachyte, trachyandesite, olivine basalt and volcanoclastic brecciated tuff and lapilli tuff intruded by a quartz-monzonite, monzonite and granite subvolcanic pluton of Late Eocene - Early Oligocene age. Th...

The Aghbolagh area is located about 21 km north of Oshnavieh city, West-Azarbaidjan Province, NW Iran. This study showed that the Fe-Cu skarn deposit in this area can be separated into two zones, (1) Garnet skarn and (2) Garnet-pyroxene skarn. Based upon the results of electron probe micro-analysis, the garnets are chemically of andradite-grossularite type with dominant andraditic component. Th...

The Tidtir CObHl1 deposit is Im.:alell IX km northwesl 01 Ihe I()wn ul Eqliu, in Ihe S:tlwndaj - Sirjan zonc. Cobalt mincralil.ation occur:-. 111 a Ic horizon)' concordant Wi lh, and within Ihe :-.cdmlcnlary detrital :-.equem.:cs of limeslom:, sa nd)'lOnc and marl of upper jurassk (M,dm) age. The main minerals arc magnclile and changing gradually 10 hemalite anu then to limonite and g()clh...

The Hajiabad manganese deposit is located about 40 km northeast of Hajiabad, Hormozgan Province. This deposit is structurally located in the southeastern border of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone. The manganese mineralization in the study area is hosted by calcite-dolomitic marbles and mica schists of Devonian age, as layers, veins and massive ores. Based on microscopic investigations, the ores are do...