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Porphyry copper prospect in Mazandaran, Iran

Names and other identifiers

GMRAP ID 9373
Tract name Plio-Quaternary—Post-collisional (142pCu9017b)
Site status prospect

Geographic location

Country Iran
State or province Mazandaran
Geographic location 50.937, 36.395
Geologic map unit 50.937, 36.395
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Geologic information

Deposit type Porphyry copper
Age (Ma) 6.8Ma
Age determination method U-Pb zircon
Age range 6.8 ±0.1 Ma
Age reference Axen and others (2001)
Tectonic setting mixed
Stratigraphic age late Miocene

Commodity and development information

Development status Occurrence
Major commodities Mo
Gold-Moly ratio -9999

Reference information

Comments Mo-(Cu?) porphyry-related prospect; post-collisional porphyry units shown in geologic map.
Study area name Tethys
References Axen and others (2001); Berberian and Berberian (1981); Gansser and Huber (1962); Guest and others (2006); Guest and others (2007)
Site reference Zürcher and others (in press)
Axen, G.J., Lam, P.S., Grove, Marty, Stockli, D.F., and Hassanzadeh, Jamshid, 2001, Exhumation of the west-central Alborz Mountains, Iran—Caspian subsidence, and collision-related tectonics: Geology, v. 29, p. 559–562. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0559:EOTWCA>2.0.CO;2.)Berberian, F., and Berberian, M., 1981, Tectonoplutonic episodes in Iran, in Gupta, H.K., and Delany, F.M., eds., Zagros, Hindu Kush, Himalaya—Geodynamic evolution: American Geophysical Union, Geodynamics Series, v. 3, p. 5–32. (Also available at http://www.agu.org/books/gd/v003/GD003p0005/GD003p0005.pdf.)Gansser, Augusto, and Huber, Heinrich, 1962, Geological observations in the central Elburz, Iran: Zürich, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, v. 42, p. 583–630. (Also available at http://retro.seals.ch/resources/smp/1962/smp-1962-42-20-0583.jpg.)Guest, Bernard, Stockli, D.F., Grove, Marty, Axen, G.J., Lam, P.S., and Hassanzadeh, Jamshid, 2006, Thermal histories from the central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran—Implications for the spatial and temporal distribution of deformation in northern Iran: Gelogical Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 1507–1521. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B25819.1.)Guest, Bernard; Guest, Alice; and Axen, Gary, 2007, Late Tertiary tectonic evolution of northern Iran—A case for simple crustal folding: Global and Planetary Change, v. 58, p. 435–453. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.02.014.)