Copper, Zinc, and Lead Mineral Prospectivity Mapping in the North of Tafresh, Markazi Province, Central Iran, Using the AHP-OWA Method — Oak Academic Publishing
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Copper, Zinc, and Lead Mineral Prospectivity Mapping in the North of Tafresh, Markazi Province, Central Iran, Using the AHP-OWA Method
Department of Geology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Geology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Geomatics, Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), Tehran, Iran
1 Department of Geology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Geology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Geomatics, Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), Tehran, Iran
The reason of this research is to identify the favorable areas for copper, zinc, and lead mineralization in the western part of the 1:100,000 Tafresh geological Sheet in the Urmia-Dokhtar structural zone of Iran. Effective data layers for mineralization, such as geology, geochemistry, structures, and satellite images, were analyzed and then integrated using the AHP-OWA method to identify favorable areas. Geochemical stream samples were analyzed by univariate, multivariate, and classical statistical methods and revealed the first, second, and third class anomalies for copper, zinc, and lead in the study region. Detection of hydrothermal alteration zones by Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) satellite imagery in various algorithms, such as Relative absorption Band Depth (RBD), Minimum Noise Fraction (MNF), and Least Square Fit (LS-Fit), shows that argillic, phyllic, propylitic, and iron oxide alterations develop around the faults in the area under study. The favorable areas for copper, zinc, and lead mineralization have been identified by a combination of evidence maps of lithology, faults, dikes, geochemistry, and alteration data layers. Field observations in the area under study have confirmed the results.
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