Sulfur-isotope characteristics of the volcanogenic Cu-Zn-Pb deposits of the Eastern Pontide Region, Northeastern Turkey

Gokce A., Spiro B.

INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW, vol.42, no.6, pp.565-576, 2000 (Journal Indexed in SCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 42 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2000
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/00206810009465100
  • Title of Journal : INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW
  • Page Numbers: pp.565-576

Abstract

In the Eastern Pontide Region of northeastern Turkey, volcanogenic Cu-Zn-Pb deposits of the Kuroko type are widespread within the dacitic series of the Liassic-Eocene volcano-sedimentary succession. Sulfide mineralization within the studied deposits shows four different depositional styles: disseminated ore; polymetallic stockwork ores; polymetallic massive ores; and disseminated pyrite in the hanging-wall tuff units. Only the stockwork and massive ores are economically important, and usually one or the other dominates in each ore body.