Magnetite Texture and Geochemistry in the Takab Ore Deposit (NW Iran): Implications for a Complex Hydrothermal Evolution
2025
Christiane Wagner | Omar Boudouma | Nicolas Rividi | Beate Orberger | Ghasem Nabatian | Maryam Honarmand | Iman Monsef
The massive magnetite deposit from Takab (NW Iran) is hosted in amphibolite layers intercalated with the chemical and terrigenous sediments of the Takab BIF. A comprehensive textural and chemical study allowed three types of magnetite (Mt) to be distinguished. Mt1 forms large (&le:1 mm) inhomogeneous grains surrounded and locally invaded by magnetite Mt2. Oscillatory zoning is present in Mt1 and Mt2. Mt3 forms bands aligned along fracture planes. Mt3 may contain hematite relicts and is porous in proximity to hematite. Mt1 shows variable and higher Si (up to 1.4 wt. %), Al, Ca, and Mg and lower Fe content (68 wt. %) than Mt2. Mt3 has the lowest Si (<:0.3 wt. %) and highest Fe (71 wt. %) contents. The temperature of formation decreases from Mt1 (600 °:C) to Mt2 (500&ndash:550 °:C) and Mt3 (380&ndash:440 °:C). Mt1 likely formed in a reducing Si-rich environment. The close spatial relationship, sharp compositional boundaries, similar crystallographic structure of Mt1 and Mt2, and porosity in Mt2 suggest a fluid-assisted coupled dissolution of Mt1 and precipitation of Mt2 (CDR process). Microfracturing allowed the penetration of oxidizing fluid and the formation of platy hematite bands. Mt3 (mushketovite) formed after hematite by interaction with a reducing lower temperature fluid through a redox transformation.
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