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Location: 50 km W from Ganja, Azerbaijan
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The Gedabek operation includes Gedabek, Gadir, Zafar, and Gilar deposits.All the deposits are located within the Gedabek CA and are part of the Gedabek ore district. The Gedabek ore district is extensive and includes numerous mineral occurrences and prospects (as well as operating mines). The region lies within the Shamkir uplift of the Lok-Karabakh volcanic arc, in the Lesser Caucasus Mega-Anticlinorium. This province has been deformed by several major magmatic and tectonic events, resulting in compartmentalised stratigraphic blocks.The Gedabek mining operation is located in a 300 square kilometre Contract Area in the Lesser Caucasus mountains in western Azerbaijan on the Tethyan Tectonic Belt, one of the world’s most significant copper and gold-bearing geological structures. The ore finds in the Gedabek CA are hosted predominantly in Bajocian-aged, hydrothermally altered volcanic units.Gadir depositGadir is interpreted as a low-sulphidation (“LS”) epithermal orebody, which is located approximately 400 metres northwest of the current Gedabek OP limits. Gedabek mineralisation is considered to be related to a high-sulphidation (HS) system. There is a significant fault structure separating these two areas.The Gadir mineral deposit is located at the contact between volcanic rocks and the quartz porphyry (rhyolite-rhyodacite subvolcanic formation) in a similar lithological position to the Gedabek mineralisation. There are disseminated breccias and mineralised hydrothermal structures (predominantly vein and stockwork systems) in the quartz porphyry.Zafar deposit Zafar is a new discovery located 1.5 kilometres north-west of the existing Gedabek processing plant. The geology of the area is structurally complex, comprising mainly of Upper Bajocian-aged volcanics. The mineralisation seems to be associated with a main northwest to south-east trending structure, which is interpreted as post-dating smaller north-east to south-west structures. In the south-west area, outcrops with tourmaline have been mapped, which can be indicative of the potential for porphyry-style mineral formation. The exploration area is located along the regional Gedabek-Shekarbek fault system, with Shekarbek being another target area known to host copper mineralisation, situated in the north-west of the zone.
