Open Journal of Geology, 2021, 11, 596-620 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ojg ISSN Online: 2161-7589 ISSN Print: 2161-7570 DOI: 10.4236/ojg.2021.1111030 Nov. 22, 2021 596 Open Journal of Geology Geochemical and Behavioral Modeling of Phosphorus and Sulfur as Deleterious Elements of Iron Ore to Be Used in Geometallurgical Studies, Sheytoor Iron Ore, Iran Aref Shirazi 1 , Adel Shirazy 1* , Hamed Nazerian 2 , Shayan Khakmardan 1 1 Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2 University of Catania, Catania, Italy Abstract Sheytoor Iron Ore deposit is located in Yazd province of Iran (Bafq). The most abundant ore is magnetite, which can be seen in the form of mass and granular tissue in various forms of self-shaped, semi-self-shaped and amorphous. The main purpose of this study is to identify the geochemical relationship of phosphorus and sulfur elements and also three-dimensional modeling of mi- neralization of these elements in iron ore. In order to achieve the research goal, methods such as k-mean clustering technique, concentration-volume fractal as well as block modeling with kriging estimator and Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) interpolator were used. The model of geochemical beha- vior of phosphorus and sulfur elements compared to iron is of great impor- tance because these two elements are known as deleterious elements in min- eral processing and steelmaking processes, which are the post-mining stages. Existence of geochemical model and identification of elements’ behavior to- wards each other play a key role in optimizing mining operations in order to achieve geometallurgical goals. The results of this study are the three-dimen- sional model of mineralization of iron, phosphorus and sulfur elements, se- paration of phosphorus and sulfur mineralization communities and also pre- senting the model of enrichment community of these two elements. All the results are in line with geometallurgical studies and can optimize the next steps by optimizing the mining process. Keywords Geometallurgy, Geochemical Behavior, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Iron Ore, K-Means, Geochemical Modeling How to cite this paper: Shirazi, A., Shi- razy, A., Nazerian, H. and Khakmardan, S. (2021) Geochemical and Behavioral Mod- eling of Phosphorus and Sulfur as Delete- rious Elements of Iron Ore to Be Used in Geometallurgical Studies, Sheytoor Iron Ore, Iran. Open Journal of Geology, 11, 596-620. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojg.2021.1111030 Received: October 16, 2021 Accepted: November 19, 2021 Published: November 22, 2021 Copyright © 2021 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Open Access