“…The gen e sis of min er ali sa tion hosted by the Qaradagh batholith is con tro ver sial, be ing pre sented as in tru sion-re lated gold (Mokhtari, 2008;Mokhtari et al, 2013) and vein-type Cu-Mo-Au (Rezai Aghdam and Sohrabi, 2010), as well as porphyry type Cu-Mo min er ali sa tion (e.g., Amini Fazl, 1994;Zakeri et al, 2011;Zakeri, 2013).…”