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A. GENERAL IRON ORE DEPOSITS
TYPE
1.Banded Iron Formation (BIF)
2.Iron Oxide Copper Gold Deposits (IOCG)
3.Iron Ore Skarn Deposits
4.Lateritic Iron Ore Deposits
5.Granitoid Associated Iron Ore
A1. BANDED IRON FORMATION (BIF)
Consists of repeated thin layer ( few mm few cm) in thickness
) of silver to black iron oxides, either Magnetite (Fe3O4)
and or Hematite (Fe2O3), alternating with bands of iron
poor shales and cherts, often red in color.
The conventional concept is that thebanded ironlayers were
formed insea wateras the result ofoxygenreleased
byphotosyntheticcyanobacteria. The oxygen then combined
with dissolvedironin Earth's oceans to form insoluble iron
oxides, which precipitated out, forming a thin layer on the
ocean floor, which may have beenanoxicmud (forming shale
and chert). Each band is similar to avarve, to the extent
that the banding is assumed to result from cyclic variations
in available oxygen.
A1. BANDED IRON FORMATION (BIF)
The Koolyanobbing banded iron formation (BIF)-hosted iron ore deposits (total premining resources
~150 million metric tons (Mt), indicated reserves ~32 Mt) are located in the Mesoarchean lower
succession BIF of the Koolyanobbing greenstone belt, Younami terrane, Yilgarn craton in Western
Australia.
A2. IRON OXIDE COPPER GOLD DEPOSITS
(IOCG)
Iron oxide copper gold ore deposits (IOCG)are important and
highly valuable concentrations
ofcopper,goldanduraniumoreshosted withiniron
oxidedominantgangue assemblages which share a
commongeneticorigin.
The key features include the following (Williams; P.J., 2005):
The presents of Cu with or without Au as economic metals.
Hydrothermal vein, breccia and or replacement ore styles,
characteristically in specific structural sites.
Abundant magnetite and or Hematite .
Iron oxides which have low Ti content compared to those in
most igneous rocks.
Absences of clear spatial association with igneous intrusion,
such as those which characterize porphyry and skarn
deposits
Magnetite associated
with Granitoid rocks Iron ore
(e.g. Granite,
Granodiorite, Clay
alteration
Monzonite, Diorite ).
Which developed
around contact with
sedimentary ,
Granite with strongly clay
and metamorphic alteration
rocks .
Clay minerals formed
between contact
intrusive and
hostrocks,
Hematite are dominant Hematite-
ore and minor Goethite
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