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Orthoclase from
Sungun Mine (Songun Mine), Varzaqan county, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sungun Mine (Songun Mine), Varzaqan county, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:697860
Long-form Identifier:1:3:697860:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
26.9km (16.7 miles) ⓘAstamal skarn deposit, Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
38.8km (24.1 miles) ⓘShvanidzorskii, Shvanidzor, Meghri, Syunik Province, Armenia
References
Tahmasebi, P., Hezarkhani, A., and Mortazavi, M. (2010): Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 6(4), 564-576
Kamali, Amin, Moayyed, Mohsen, Amel, Nasir, Hosseinzadeh, Mohammad, Mohammadiha, Kourosh, Santos, José, Brenna, Marco (2018) Post-Mineralization, Cogenetic Magmatism at the Sungun Cu-Mo Porphyry Deposit (Northwest Iran): Protracted Melting and Extraction in an Arc System. Minerals, 8 (12) 588 doi:10.3390/min8120588
Kamali, Amin Allah, Moayyed, Mohsen, Saumur, Benoit M., Fadaeian, Mohammad (2022) Mineralogy and Mineral Chemistry of Dioritic Dykes, Quartz Diorite Enclaves and Pyroxene of the Sungun Cu-Mo Porphyry Deposit, East Azerbaijan, Iran. Minerals, 12 (10) 1218 doi:10.3390/min12101218
Núñez, Constanza; Mery, Nadia; Maleki, Mohammad (2026) Stacking Ensemble Learning for Copper Grade Prediction at the Sungun Porphyry Copper Deposit: Statistical Performance Versus Geological Coherence. Minerals, 16 (10). doi:10.3390/min16101063
 
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