Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi

Yazarlar: Coşqun İSMAYIL, Fetullah ARIK, Yeşim ÖZEN

Konular:Mühendislik

DOI:10.28948/ngumuh.502363

Anahtar Kelimeler:Gold,Copper,Mineralogy,Azerbaijan,Gedabek

Özet: In this study, it was aimed to investigate the geological and mineralogical properties of Gedabek (West Azerbaijan) gold-copper deposit, which is one of the most important gold copper deposits of Azerbaijan, in the northwest of Gedabek and 50 km west of Ganja (West Azerbaijan). Gedabek gold-copper deposit, extending from Pakistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia to Turkey, the world's major gold and one of the copper province Tethyan Tectonic Belt located and is known as one of the ancient areas of the copper engraving Lesser Caucasus in the Azerbaijan section of is located at. In the region, especially in Gedabek, numerous antique copper mines such as Alaverdi, Şamlık, Mishana, Zengezur and Şenerdere are undergoing re-processing for copper mining. Middle and Upper Jurassic sediments which are complicated by magmatic rocks and fractures of different ages and compositions in the region. Due to the tectonic structure of the Gedabek deposit and the tectonic structure of the Semkir anticline, the magmatic activity in the region has also occurred in three stages: Bajocian, Batonian and Late Jurassic. The Gedabek Au-Cu deposit, observed in the biggest porphyry-epithermal ore field of Azerbaijan, were occurred in the quartz porphyry which was formed in the contact of the Middle Jurassic andesitic rocks and the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous granitoid (granodiorite-diorite). The main ore minerals are chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, arsenopyrite, bornite, pyrite, covellite, chalcocite, native gold, silver, kaolinite, barite, and iron hydroxides.

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