Purpose: According to previous studies, Iranian publishers generally do not comply with national legal Deposit laws and regulations due to the shortcomings in such laws and regulations. The purpose of this research is to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the mentioned laws and make some recommendation for improvements.Method: 20 Iranian legal Deposit documents issued between 1905 and 2016 were reviewed using qualitative content analysis method. They were categorized and coded based on IFLA “Legal Deposit Framework” in MAXQDA software. To ensure the validity of the analysis two faculty members and two students aware of the subject reviewed and endorsed the codes. To rate reliability, the percentage of agreement was calculated.Findings: Legal Deposit rules and procedures in Iran are spelled out in several laws, regulations, ratified bills, and circulars. However, the term “legal Deposit” has appeared only in one document while “Comprehensiveness” and “Depository” exist in all the documents reviewed. The elements of “origin of the publication”, “Depositor”, and “number of copies” to Deposit are mentioned in 19. National Library and Archives of Iran is the Depository in 13, and 2 copies of each publication as the minimum number to be Deposited is mentioned in 16. The element “time of Deposit” has appeared by the words like “immediately” or “after binding” in 9 documents. That leaves the actual time of Deposit ambiguous. Free Deposit has been mentioned in only 4 documents. Music scores, Iconographic material, online publication, and audio-visual material are not mentioned at all. Also, Depositing appropriate accompanying material of online and offline electronic publication (e.g., software) is not addressed in the document relating Deposit of electronic publications. No penalty for non-compliance is predicted in 19 documents studied.Conclusion: The mere existence of legal documents for the Deposit of publications shows that cultural custodians and librarians have been aware of the importance of collecting national publications. Now, there is a need to have a law for online publications too. Also, according to “Legal Deposit Framework” of IFLA, a law for legal Deposit should include a penalty structure for non-compliance; something which is missed in the 19 documents reviewed. In addition, none have addressed access and copy right condition for Deposited material. Since the main goal of legal Deposit is to preserve national and cultural heritage of the nation and make them accessible now and in the future, in addition to ascertain the place of preservation and protective facilities and security, the law must address the issue of making copy from the Deposited materials.

Sheikh-Ali copper Deposit is located 300-km southeast of Kerman in an “ophiolitic coloured melange” complex at the southeastern part of the Zagros Crushed Zone. The rock units mainly consist of pillow basalt lavas, diabase, pelagic limestone, radiolarian chert, calcareous sandstone and graywacke of Upper Cretaceous age. These units locally have an east-west trend and are emplaced as a slice between serpentinite and other ultrabasic rocks such as dunite and harzburgite, through thrust fault contacts. The country rock which hosts directly the ore horizon is a brown to red goethitic silica horizon. The silicic ore horizon was Deposited stratiformly between the pelagic limestones and embedded by the pillow basaltic lavas. Chloritic and propylitic alterations can be seen in the surrounding rocks. The geometry of ore is lenticular and the lenses are conformable with the pelagic limestones, as well as pillow basalt lavas. The mineral paragenesis mainly includes pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, specularite, silica, quartz and calcite. The ore textures are massive, laminar, colloform, disseminated and rarely veinlets are present. The silicic ore horizon is about 550 meters long and 0.7 to 8.5 meters thickness. Mean and maximum content of Cu in massive ore is about 2.5 and 4.8 percent, respectively. Maximum content of Au and Ag in massive ore is about 0.64 and 75 g/t, respectively. Geochemical studies show excellent correlation between Cu and Zn in different parts of the ore body. Furthermore, the REE patterns are similar in both the pillow basalts and the ore bodies. Geological, lithological, geochemical and ore paragenesis studies suggest that the Deposit can be introduced as a Cyprus-type (Ophiolite-hosted) VMS Deposit, resulting from submarine volcanic exhalites and fumaroles, synchronous with the formation of country rocks.

Shadan gold Deposit is located 60 km southwest of Birjand and north of Lut block. the Eocene post-collision magmatism resulting from the subduction of the Sistan Ocean has played a role in the formation of the Shadan gold Deposit. Gold mineralization in Shadan Deposit is directly related to the emplacement of plutonic and sub volcanic plutons with a composition diorite to monzodiorite that intruded into andesite-pyroclastic units. The main alterations in the area are primary potassic and propylitic alterations, the first of which is located in the center of the hydrothermal-magmatic system and the second of which surrounds the potassic alteration. These two alterations are overprinted by the late Phyllic and Argillic alterations. Mineralization in Shadan Deposit occurred in the form of stockwork, vein-veinlets, disseminated and hydrothermal breccias and the most important trigger of gold mineralization in this Deposit was Shadan pluton. According to SEM studies, the most important host of gold in the hypogene part is pyrite and gold occurs as native, electrum and calavarite. The most characteristic veins of Shadan gold Deposit are M and A type and banded veins. Shadan pluton contains abundant hornblende phenocrysts and biotite as well as high amounts of magnetite in various alterations which can indicate the presence of a highly oxidized magma with high amounts of water. Based on all the mentioned evidences as well as the Cu / Au ratio (3000), Shadan Deposit can be introduced as the first gold-rich porphyry Deposit in Iran.

In Sufism viewpoint, Quranic abstract words have different meanings. One of these words is “Deposit” (Ahzab/72).The mystics have paid attention to the hidden meanings and senses in “Divine Deposit” that just human a accepted it. These secret knowledge and facts can only be seen and heard intuitively by those mastered in mysticism. Furthermore, the semantic multiplicity of the word “Deposit” in Quran, definitely shows human status and dignity.

Copper mineralization in Nudeh Cu Deposit and Frezy, Garab, Kalateh lala (Nieran) and Chun occurrences, located in southwest of Sabzevar hosted by a Upper Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary sequence formed in a rift environment. The main is host rock of the Nudeh Cu sulfide Deposit includes alkali olivine basalt flow and subordinate tuffaceous silty sandstone. Host rock of the Ferizy and Garab occurrences is andesite flow. The rock forming mineral of Kalateh lala (Nieran) and Chun occurrences is tuffaceous silty sandstone. Sulfide mineralization in the Nudeh Deposit and occurrences within an Upper Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary sequence occurs as sheet-like &tabular shape within three ore horizons. Based on nature of sulfide mineralization, mineralogy and textures of sulfide minerals, the Nudeh Deposit can be divided into three different ore facies. Based on their situation towards the vent of mineralizing fluid, these facies include: A) Vein-veinlets facies (Stringer zone) includes sulfide veins and silica that form as a scissors of host rocks under the massive ore facies. Vein-veinlets and replacement textures formed main features of this facies. B) Massive ore facies that forms the thicker part of generally massive higher grade ores in west of the Deposit and includes sulfide mineralization with heterogeneous nature and strata bound, limited in the alkali olivine basalt flow. C) Bedded ore facies which is thinner than the massive ore facies and is characterized by layered and banded apparent and low grade ore. The rock forming mineral of this facies is tuffaceous silty sandstone. This facies occurs as laminated and banded sulfides contemporaneous with the host rocks layering at eastern part of the Deposit. Mineralogy of Nudeh Deposit includes chalcopyrite, pyrite, bornite, sphalerite, boulangerite and magnetite wall rock alterations are dominated by silicification, chloritization, sericitization and epidotization. The most important characteristics of mineralization at the Nudeh Deposit such as tectonic setting, host rocks, mineralogy, metal content as well as wall rock alterations, show similarities with volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) Deposits. Accordingly, Nudeh Cu Deposit is regarded as a Besshi - or pelitic mafic VMS Deposit.

Southern highland of Amlash city including ophiolitic rocks of upper cretaceous age that pillow lavas and isotropic gabbros are make its major outcrops.Mica-bearing dikes (Alkaline dikes) without specified trend and in different direction have infiltrated in nominated rocks. Based on field evidences and microscopic study of dikes, this dikes are kind of alkaline lamprophyre feldspar-bearing which 6Cm idiomorphic megacryst make almost 10 percent of them. According to Guilan province industries and mines organization (2008) two amlsh's mica mines (Ya ali govabar & param sara) proved reserved is more than 240 thousand tones. Abounding of zoned phlogopite in alkaline dikes in different sizes according to their formation conditions (High water vapor pressure and more than 1100 oc temperature) probably dikes melt has made of molten mantle wedge in sub duction with low melt percent (at last 3 percents).

Eocene magmatism with intermediate-acid tuffs and volcanic rocks, the host to the Nodoushan Deposit in Yazd province, intruded by Oligocene early diorite and later granite plutonic rocks. The former involved in iron skarn (containing epidote and euhedral grossularite) to the north and northern part of the Deposit, the latter contributed to fault-controlled Zn-Pb Deposit. The structural features controlled both the mineralization and consequent alterations which ranged from silicification (central) to argillic alteration (northern). Propylitic alteration and dolomitization considered the minor ones, the iron contamination of which could be provided by earlier iron mineralization. Sulfide minerals are dominantly pyrite, sphalerite and galena followed by chalcopyrite and late stage copper minerals such as covellite, digenite, bornite, chalcocite. Oxide minerals developed to the depth of 40 m as a result of faults. Sphalerite which is of high-Fe type was characterized by extensive chalcopyrite disease, the iron content of which provided by earlier iron concentration. The concentration of chalcopyrite exsolution along sphalerite margins as well as galena veinlets is due to the thermal shock of later stage hydrothermal fluids that Deposited galena and chalcopyrite. Negligible fossil replacements indicate both mineralization and alteration. It was concluded that the Zn-dominant mineralization was Deposited under the structural controlling faults which reflects part of its earlier iron mineralization.

Chahmir Zn-Pb Deposit is one of several sediment-hosted Zn-Pb Deposits (e.g., Koushk, Zarigan, Dareh Dehu & Cheshmeh Firuzeh) located in southeast of Bafq basin hosted within a Early Cambrian volcano-sedimentary sequence, simultaneous with global Cambrian ocean anoxic event, forming in a rift environment. The host rock units of the Chahmir Zn-Pb Deposit includes organic-rich black siltstones with intercalations of tuff and silty tuff overlain by green carbonaceous tuffs. Based on nature of sulfide mineralization, mineralogy and textures of sulfide minerals, the Chahmir Deposit can be divided into four different facies. Based on their situation towards the vent of mineralization fluid, these facies include: 1) A massive ore facies (Vent Complex) forms the thicker part of generally massive higher grade ores in east of the Deposit. This facies includes two subfacies: the sulfide-silica-carbonate subfacies in center of massive ore and sulfide-carbonate subfacies around it. Sulfide minerals are observed as massive, replacement, vein-veinlets and brecciated colloform textures.2) Vein-veinlets facies (Feeder Zone) includes sulfide veins and silica that form as a scissors of host rocks under the massive ore facies. Vein-veinlets and replacement textures form main features of this facies.3) Bedded ore facies which is thinner than the massive ore facies and is characterized by layered and banded feature and low grade ore. This facies occurs as stratiform laminated and banded sulfides contemporaneous with the formation of the host rocks.4) Distal facies is formed at west of the Deposit which is actually a sedimentary equivalent of bedded ore facies. Main characteristics of this facies are presence of disseminated pyrite, banded chert and barite. The most important characteristics of mineralization at the Chahmir Deposit such as tectonic setting, host rocks, mineralogy, diffrent facies, show similarities to siltstone and shale hosted Zn-Pb Sedex type Deposits. Accordingly, Chahmir is regarded as a Selwyn-Type (Vent Proximal) SEDEX Deposit.