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RENDICONTI LINCEI-SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI
Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages 325-342Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL
DOI: 10.1007/s12210-021-00995-1
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Microtectonic analyses; MVT mineralizations; Mibladen ore deposit; Upper Moulouya; Morocco
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The MVT Pb-Ba mineralizations of the Mibladen ore deposit are primarily hosted by Jurassic carbonates and Infracenomanian conglomerates and sandstones. Economic ore bodies occur through various structural controls. Studies reveal two main fracture networks controlling the deposition of ore minerals, indicating the geological tectonic evolution history of the region.
The MVT Pb-Ba mineralizations of the Mibladen ore deposit are hosted by Jurassic carbonates as well as Infracenomanian conglomerates and sandstones. The mineral paragenesis is mainly composed of galena and barite with lesser chalcopyrite and pyrite, accompanied by supergene oxidation minerals. This ore deposit is the result of a major epigenetic mineral stage with economic orebodies occuring as replacement of pre-existent carbonate rocks, fillings of karst cavities, interstratal joints, collapse-breccias, fractures, and faults. Structural and microtectonic analyses we carried out in this ore deposit, allowed us to highlight two main fracture networks controlling ore deposition within karst cavities and interstratal joints: (i) NNW-SSE to NNE-SSW trending tension gashes and normal faults; (ii) ENE-WSW to E-W trending reverse faults with strike-slip components and transtensive relay zones. All of these structures are developed under a regional compressional tectonic regime divided into extensional and transtensional episodes (sigma 1-sigma 2 and sigma 2-sigma 3 permutations) with sub-meridian sigma 1 axis and sub-equatorial sigma 3 axis. This compressive tectonic event caused the uplift of Mibladen area and favored the circulation of mineralizing fluids along the NE-SW and ENE-WSW major faults such as Aouli and Amourou Faults, during the Infracenomanian period (Upper Jurassic-Early Cretaceous).
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