Study of relationship among mineralization, faulting and local stress field in Torud area

To study of relationship between mineralization and brittle structures in Torud area field studies and analysis of more than 170 planar structures (fracture, fault and dyke) were carried out. These studies show relationship between mineralising fluid flow and fractures with special orientation, as well as densely fractured zones (fault damage zones) is clearly visible in form of the precipitation of Cu–bearing minerals in the fractures. Results show preferred orientation of the NE–SW trending fractures, which are mineralized, is related to strike–slip stress field with NE–SW trending shortening axis. Also, these results show the mineralization is controlled not only by fractures as a function of local stress field but also is controlled by fault damage zones.