The Yolagh Iron- Oxide-Apatite (IOA) district with 99.6 km2 areas is located in the Markazi province and 17 km northwest of the Saveh city. It is part of the Urmia-dokhtar where a number of magmatism belt, Access road to the area is through the Tehran-Hamedan freeway, after 2 km of the Nuraly Beyg subway to Yolagh can be entered from the southeast part of target area.
Yolagh IOA
Projects
Reserve Type
- Genesis: Iron and skarn
- Paragenesis of mineral: Hematite, pyrolusite, manganite, chalcopyrite, malachite, azurite, goethite
- Gange type: Magnetite, apatite, malachite, chalcopyrite, specularite, apatite, actinolite
- Geochemical paragenesis: P, Fe, Cu
Geology
- Host rock type: Quartz diorite, Andesite, andesitic Tuff, Granodiorite, Diorite, Tuff, Ignimbrite tuff, dacite tuff
- Age of the host rock: eocene to quaternary
- Alteration: sericitization, silicification, argillic, poropylitic, iron hydroxide and oxide
Reserve Amount
Silica-calcite veins containing copper mineralization with gold .the length of veins are 500 m by 1.5 m thickness, the average grade of copper is 5 percent.
The length of skarn part is about 1km with 1 – 1.5 m thickness, the maximum and average grade of copper is 0.7 and 0.5 respectively, and for phosphorous is 0.65 and 0.25.
Proven Reserve
Designing and drilling exploratory trenches are ongoing and the proven reserve is not estimated.
Facilities
There are water and electricity in a few kilometers of the area and access way to areas is a dirt road.
Exploration operations
- Collecting information; including geological and topographic maps, previous reports and …, doing office work and planning for field operations.
- prospecting and identifying mineralization
- surveying, processing and integrating the data base information, creating databases and identifying areas that is suitable for exploration
- Prepartion of geological map of 1:20,000 in area of 6.99 km2.
- Preparation of structural map of 1:20,000 in area
- Sampling of mineralization and contact metamorphism in the prospecting step for 42 samples
- Collecting 42 samples for chemical analysis by ICP-OES and Fire Assay method.
- Collecting 2 samples for XRF
- Collecting 26 samples for chemical analysis by ICP-OES and Fire Assay method.
- Systematic Lithogeochemical sampling for 26 samples
- Collecting 4 samples for thin sections study in all steps
- Preparation and study 4 microscopic sections in all phase
- Geophysical operations by IP and RS for 507 points in 5 profiles
- Geophysical operations by magnetometric for 664 points
Ownership
This area has exploration certificate which Belongs to Pars Gostaran Aqiq Company.
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