Mineral Deposits of Turkey in Relation to Tethyan Metallogeny: Implications for Future Mineral Exploration

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dc.contributor.authorYigit, Ozcan
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:59:47Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:59:47Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe Tethyan metallogeny of Turkey, shaped by the interplay between subduction, collision, postcollision, and rifting processes, is mainly associated with Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic volcanoplutonic and ophiolitic rocks. A wide spectrum of ore deposits is represented from those occurring in island arcs to those associated with continental settings. Though Turkey has been one of the leading producers of chromite, the country is an emerging producer of precious and base metals. This assessment of the metallogeny of Turkey is based on a comprehensive GIS database compilation that contains known mineral deposits and prospects with relevant descriptive data. The data set contains information on major deposit types of economic importance such as porphyry, skarn, epithermal including both high-and low-sulfidation, polymetallic volcanic-associated massive sulfide (VMS) deposits including both Kuroko and Cyprus types, podiform chromite, lateritic nickel, carbonate-hosted lead-zinc with nonsulfide zinc including sedimentary-exhalative (SEDEX) and Mississippi Valley type (MVT), karstic and lateritic bauxite, orogenic gold including both mesothermal and listwanite-hosted types, and placer deposits. Well known deposit types that are less well represented in the database include sediment-hosted Cu, Carlin-type gold, iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG), and detachment-fault related gold systems. Exploration programs in the last two decades have started to reveal the true mineral potential of the country. Turkey is an underexplored country by today's standards, with a large prospective area with a wide spectrum of mineral deposits reflecting the diverse geological environments that are present. Turkey is the least well explored portion of the Tethyan belt, which hosts Au and Cu endowments comparable with the Andes and the southwest Pacific metallogenic belts.
dc.description.sponsorshipTurkish Science Foundation (TUBITAK) [104Y062]
dc.description.sponsorshipCatherine Yigit is thanked for her invaluable discussions on the major themes of the paper, as well as proofreading and editing. Special thanks are due to Dave Burrows for his detailed review of the paper which improved the text greatly. Larry Meinert's editorial input is greatly appreciated. Bahri Yildiz is also thanked for his review. This paper is an offshoot of a presentation given in the SEG session of the SGA Biennial Meeting in Dublin in 2007. The kind invitation to attend the meeting from Mac Canby of Freeport-McMoran is gratefully acknowledged. Some of the data for Biga Peninsula are from an ongoing study on the gold metallogeny of the Biga Peninsula supported by the Turkish Science Foundation (TUBITAK Project 104Y062 Gold Metallogeny of the Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey) and TUBITAK is, therefore, gratefully acknowledged.
dc.identifier.doi10.2113/gsecongeo.104.1.19
dc.identifier.endpage51
dc.identifier.issn0361-0128
dc.identifier.issn1554-0774
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-65349139476
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage19
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.104.1.19
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/26828
dc.identifier.volume104
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000264867000002
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSoc Economic Geologists, Inc
dc.relation.ispartofEconomic Geology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectSouthern Menderes Massif
dc.subjectHigh-Pressure Metamorphism
dc.subjectSulfide Deposits
dc.subjectCentral Anatolia
dc.subjectWestern Turkey
dc.subjectCopper-Deposits
dc.subjectGold Mineralization
dc.subjectStable-Isotope
dc.subjectOrogenic Gold
dc.subjectMissing Link
dc.titleMineral Deposits of Turkey in Relation to Tethyan Metallogeny: Implications for Future Mineral Exploration
dc.typeReview Article

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