Author(s)

Samira Bakhtiyari¹, Mohammad Lotfi^2*, Nima Nezafati¹, Arash Gourabjeripour³

¹Department of Geology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
²Department of Geology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
³Department of Geology, Myianeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Myianeh, Iran.

The XIV iron-oxide prospect in the northern part of the Bafq mining district is hosted by intrusive rocks and demonstrates similar characteristics with Kiruna mineralization. The plutonic complex of the XIV prospect is composed of two major types of intrusive rocks, including: 1) a granitic intrusive body which is itself composed of two types; a pale-pink leucogranite and a white-gray aplite, as well as 2) a gabbrodiorite intrusive body. Geochemically, these rocks are tholeitic-calcalkaline and metaluminous in nature. Geochemical characteristics of the plutonic rocks of the study area support a non-orogenic continental setting.

Granite, Gabbrodiorite, Geochemistry, Petrography, Bafq, Iron

Bakhtiyari, S. , Lotfi, M. , Nezafati, N. and Gourabjeripour, A. (2016) Petrology of the Plutonic Rocks at the XIV Iron-Oxide Prospect, Bafq Mining District, Central Iran. Open Journal of Geology, 6, 1591-1604. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2016.612113.