Sorkheh Cu deposit, Marand County, East Azerbaijan Province, Irani

Regional Level Types
Sorkheh Cu deposit	Deposit
Marand County	County
East Azerbaijan Province	Province
Iran	Country

This page is currently not sponsored. Click here to sponsor this page.

PhotosMapsSearchMineralogy

The primary sedimentary sequences in the Sorkheh deposit include red and green sandstone, shale, conglomerate, and evaporate layers. The most important host rock of copper mineralization in the Sorkheh deposit is the sandstone unit of the Miocene age, which has an interlayer of evaporite (gypsum and halite). In the Sorkheh Cu deposit, repeating sequences of oxide-red and green-gray reduced layers can be seen; according to Tucker (2001), the alternation of red and green-gray sandstone sediments indicates the change of environmental conditions at the deposition time. The most important feature of the host sandstones is their fine-grained nature and the presence of woody fragments, which are rich in primary copper minerals. This unit, extending several kilometers, is the longest among the sedimentary sequences in the studied area and has been extended with a thickness varying from a few centimeters to 20 meters. In the Sorkheh Cu deposit, a group of dykes of Upper Miocene age (9.95±0.11) with a width of 1 meter and a length of 300 meters can be seen, which cut into the stratigraphy units such as the Upper Red Formation. These dykes were injected during the subduction of the Neotethys oceanic crust and the evolution of the Zagros orogeny in northwest Iran, which characterize the final stage of the closure of the Neotethys.

Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.

Mineral List

7 valid minerals.

Rock Types Recorded