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Iran
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The Bafq District, which contains major iron ore, magmatic phosphate, Th-U and Pb-Zn mineralisation, is located to the east and north of the town of Bafq, which is located 115 km south-east of the city of Yazd, in central Iran.

The Bafq district occupies a narrow rift zone extending from south of the town Bafq to Sagand and Robat-Posht-Badam ~150 km to the north. The total resource of mostly high grade 65% Fe iron ores is ~1500 Mt, distributed over 34 zones of aeromagnetic anomalies. Iron ore is being mined to supply local steel works. In addition, economic apatite deposits have attracted attention, with the first phosphate plant being established at the Esfordy deposit, which has an estimated resource of 17 Mt of apatite with 2 to 3% REE (Phosphate Mines Development Co., 1999). In the Bafq district, apatite is associated with both magnetite (-hematite) mineralisation and with apatite-bearing silicate-phosphate-magnetite-carbonate rocks or 'apatitites'. The iron ore deposits have been classified as Kiruna-type (Williams and Hushmandzadeh, 1966; Borumandi, 1973; Daliran, 1990, 1991; Daliran et. al., 1994; Förster and Jafarzadeh, 1994; Mücke and Younessi, 1994).

The deposits of the Bafq are the subject of a paper in the monograph: "Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold & Related Deposits: A Global Perspective" volume 2, published by PGC Publishing, Adelaide, Australia.

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The most recent source geological information used to prepare this decription was dated: 2002.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Daliran F,  2002 - Kiruna-Type Iron Oxide-Apatite Ores and Apatitites of the Bafq District, Iran, with an Emphasis on the REE Geochemistry of their Apatites: in Porter T M (Ed.), 2002 Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, PGC Publishing, Adelaide   v.2 pp. 303-320
Forster H, Jafarzadeh A  1994 - The Bafq mining district in central Iran - a highly mineralized infracambrian volcanic field: in    Econ. Geol.   v89 pp 1697-1721
Gholipoor, M., Barati, M., Fazel, E.T. and Hurai, V.,  2023 - Textural and compositional constraints on the origin, thermal history, and REE mobility in the Lakeh Siah iron oxide-apatite deposit-NE Bafq, Iran: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.58, pp. 963-986.
Jami M, Dunlop A C and Cohen D R,  2007 - Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Study of the Esfordi Apatite-Magnetite Deposit, Central Iran: in    Econ. Geol.   v102 pp 1111-1128
Torab F M and Lehmann B,  2007 - Magnetite-apatite deposits of the Bafq district, Central Iran: apatite geochemistry and monazite geochronology: in    Mineralogical Magazine   v71 pp 347-363


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