Samli Fe-oxide (+Cu± / Au) deposit is hosted by Samli pluton and rocks of Karakaya Complex in western Anatolia. The pluton consists of both mafic and felsic phases showing magma mixing textures. 40Ar/39Ar geochronology yielded an age range of 23.2± / 0.5 to 22.42± / 0.11 Ma for the Samli pluton, overlapping with 40Ar/39Ar age of 22.33± / 0.59 Ma and U-Pb age of 23.34± / 0.19 Ma from alterations. Sr-Nd isotope data are suggestive of a metasomatized subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) source for the magma.
Alteration-mineralization pattern is defined by a series of overlapping halos characterized by sodic-calcic (plagioclase-pyroxene± / scapolite), calcic (garnet-pyroxene± / epidote), potassic (biotite+magnetite+chalcopyrite), hematite-limonite, and late stage (chalcedony-calcite+native Cu) alterations. Stable (&delta / 18O, &delta / 34S) and radiogenic (87Sr/86Sr,143Nd/144Nd) isotope compositions suggest a magmatic source for the fluids responsible for alteration-mineralization. Given the spatial-temporal association of alteration-
mineralization with magmatic rocks, the hydrothermal system that controls mineralization in Samli appears to be linked with emplacement and cooling of Samli pluton.
Samli Fe-oxide (+Cu± / Au) deposit has features characteristic for both skarn- and Iron-Oxide-Copper-Gold (IOCG) type deposits. The spatial and temporal association with a porphyritic intrusion, widespread calc-silicate assemblage, metal content (abundant Fe-oxide with high copper content) are similar to calcic Fe-Cu skarns, whereas low-Ti (&le / 0.05% TiO2) magnetite/hematite, low-S sulfides (chalcopyrite> / pyrite), high Cu (up to 6.78%) and moderate Au (up to 8.82 ppm) grades, local structural control in alteration-mineralization, and the derivation of the causative magma from a SCLM resembles the features pertinent to IOCG type mineralization. Therefore, Samli deposit is defined as a skarn type Fe-Cu mineralization with a potential for IOCG type deposit.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614270/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 March 2012 |
| Creators | Yilmazer, Erkan |
| Contributors | Gulec, Nilgun |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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