Jeoloji Münendisliği Dergisi

Features and Origin of ike Kızüdağ-Elazığ Mineralizations

ABSTRACT : The Kızıldag mineralizations occur within the granite of the Yüksekova. Complex .and are related to the fanltings what generally strike E-W and dip to north.The. mineralizations are either disseminated or1 as fillings of the fault .zones and. the type, of mineralizations are spéculante, pyrite (± chalcopyrite), galena (± sphalerite) and Ce minerals. The. most common mineralizations arc specillariie and pyrite mineralizations what grades: in to each other In. the localities where. Eh was high (above underground water table)"`mineralizations formed as spéculante and where Eh was low (below `UWT) mineralizations took place as pyrite. `The faulting took place doling end of Upper Cretaceous - Palaogene and probably in the same period when the Keban metamorphics thnisted over the Yüksekova. Complex. Although the outcropping parts: of `the mineralizations have no* economic value,, the mineral contents of the zones are likely to grade in to valuable mineral assemblages vertically.