Economic geological survey of Dogan Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum Deposit (Toroud-Chah Shirin Axis, Southwest of Shahroud)

Document Type : Original Article

10.22128/ijcm.2025.2976.0

Abstract

Dogan mining area is located on the northern edge of the central desert of Iran and in the northwest of Toroud village of Shahroud city in Semnan Province. Due to its structural location, Semnan Province has diverse copper deposits, which are mostly located in the Toroud-Chah Shirin belt. This belt, with an area of ​​300 square kilometers, is tectonically and magmatically complex and is related to subduction during the convergence of Africa-Arabia and Eurasia. The Toroud-Chah Shirin belt has long been of interest due to its copper mineralization potential and hosts mineralization of base and precious metals. In this study, we investigated the economic geology of the Dogan deposit, which, unlike the mineralization types in the Toroud-Chah Shirin axis (which are mostly epithermal), has characteristics related to porphyry deposits.
 

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