Gold deposits are distributed over 5 continents. Figures 5 and 6 show the locations of known gold deposits formed in the Cenozoic and Precambrian ages respectively. Figure 5 Known gold deposits …
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West Africa was one of the world's greatest producers of gold in the Middle Ages. Trade in the metal went back to antiquity but when the camel caravans of the Sahara linked North Africa to the savannah …
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Orogenic gold deposits: part of a global dynamic conjunction between subduction and gold David I. Groves Orebusters Pty Ltd 7 Kellett Close, Gwelup, WA 6018 di_groves@hotmail INTRODUCTION The term orogenic gold deposit was defined by Groves et al. (1998) as a coherent group to replace a wide variety of terms
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Deep sedimentary basins that accumulated thick volcanic and sedimentary rocks hosting metallic large deposits of gold, iron and manganese in Guinea, Ghana, Burkina Faso (e.g. the Birrimian system) were obliterated in areas affected by the Pan-African mobile belt, such as in Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroun.
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This report summarizes the primary characteristics of alkalic-type epithermal gold (Au) deposits and provides an updated descriptive model. These deposits, primarily of Mesozoic to Neogene age, are among the largest epithermal gold deposits in the world. Considered a subset of low-sulfidation epithermal deposits, they are spatially and …
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Gold in Benin occurs as primary and alluvial forms in various deposits and occurrences. The mineralisation has a regional distribution covering, in particular, the Atacora area …
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In Utah, primary gold deposits have proved to be more economical than placer deposits. Early Discoveries. Gold producing areas in Utah mentioned in text. In 1847, the primary influx of Utah pioneers, Mormon settlers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), arrived in Salt Lake Valley. Unlike settlers in other western states ...
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Although spatial association exist between gold mineralization and granitoid intrusions in many schist belts in Nigeria and Benin, the deposits in Nigeria are considered to have resulted from ...
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Gold in Benin occurs as primary and alluvial forms in various deposits and occurrences. The mineralisation has a regional distribution covering, in particular, the Atacora area (Natitingou) and ...
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In Benin, gold has been produced in very small quantities by artisanal miners in the past. However, recently gold mineralization has been identified in the Atacora and Alibori regions, which has drawn some …
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Gold and VMS occurrences of the Boromo-Goren belt are indicated, respectively, with white (Poura, Loraboué) and black (Perkoa) stars. PALEOPROTEROZOIC Cu-Au DEPOSITS, GAOUA DISTRICT, BURKINA FASO 101
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Gold occurs in many settings but the dynamic nature of Earth's crust means overlapping and over deposit styles are common. Characterization of mineralization from an early stage becomes important particularly where the mineralization is complex, in order to maximize exploration and project development success, and mining productivity.
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Gold in Benin occurs as primary and alluvial forms in various deposits and occurrences. The mineralisation has a regional distribution covering, in particular, the Atacora area (Natitingou) and the regions of Bembèrèkè, Djougou and Dunkassa which are between the 9th and 11th parallel north.
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Small-scale gold mining in northern Benin represents a social field that is for the most part out of the control of the central state.3 Officially, all economic activities of gold extraction and gold trade are considered to be illegal, although the Benin mining agency has recently shifted its policy towards partial toleration.
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These type of gold deposit is most commonly associated with small amounts of disseminated pyrite or pyrrhotite in well-developed quartz veins. These deposits have a world production of at least 9,900 m.t., and …
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Gold in Benin occurs as primary and alluvial forms in various deposits and occurrences. The mineralisation has a regional distribution covering, in particular, the Atacora area (Natitingou)
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Gold mining is a global business with operations on every continent, except Antarctica, and gold is extracted from mines of widely varying types and scale. At a country level, China was the largest producer in the world in 2023 and accounted for around 10 per cent of total global production.
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Gold in Benin occurs as primary and alluvial forms in various deposits and occurrences. The mineralisation has a regional distribution covering, in particular, the Atacora area (Natitingou) and ...
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Benin, which is still relatively unexplored, boasts deposits of gold, silver, copper, zinc and phosphates, as well as minerals for construction and ornamental stones.
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A gold deposit is a resource block which generates in gold resource islands spawned using a gold resource deed. Prior to June 3, 2022, gold resource islands could spawn naturally if two copper resource islands were already present. One permanent gold deposit naturally generates as part of gold resource islands spawned using gold resource …
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The metasedimentary rocks of the Atacora structural unit around Natitingou in Benin are composed of quartzites, quartz muscovite schist and mica schist. Being auriferous, the petrographic, geochemical and structural features of these rocks were investigated to ascertain the source of gold and its relation to structural deformations. …
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The world holds several hundred active gold mines, but not all are created equal. The world's largest gold operation by production is Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX,NYSE:GOLD) and Newmont's (TSX:NGT,NYSE ...
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The Largest Gold Deposits. Depending on the year or the source, different mines claim to have the most extensive gold deposits in the world. Muruntau, Uzbekistan. Muruntau is considered one of Earth's most extensive gold deposits. It has produced about 85 tonnes of gold since 1967. This pit is 1.8 miles (3.5 Km) wide and 2,000 feet (60 0m) deep.
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Gold deposits may be created in a flash—literally. Along fault zones deep within Earth's crust, small cavities filled with fluids rich in dissolved substances such as gold and silicate minerals can expand suddenly to as much as 130,000 times their former size during a major earthquake, a new analysis suggests.
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Gold concentrations in mineable deposits range from ∼1 to 100 parts per million (ppm), or higher in bonanza deposits, in comparison to an average crustal abundance of ∼1.3 ppb. A diverse range of elements may be associated with Au (La, Ce, U, V, Cr, Mo, W, Fe, Co, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag, Zn, Hg, B, Tl, C, Si, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, S, Se, Te). …
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Gold in Benin occurs as primary and alluvial forms in various deposits and occurrences. The mineralisation has a regional distribution covering, in particular, the …
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Assessing the petrochemistry of gold-bearing rocks and structural factors that contribute to gold deposition can be useful for gold exploration, since the chemical …
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A licence for production of part of the gold deposit has already been granted to the Wagagai Gold Mining Company, a Chinese firm. The Uganda Investment Authority announced a ground-breaking ceremony at the mine in October last year, and noted at the time that Wagagai's initial investment reached $50m, including for a …
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Map of gold location in Benin Republic (based on previous prospecting works and Benin's geological and Mineral Commodity map covering the Natitingou, Bembèrèke, Dunkassa and Djougou sheets ...
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The Natitingou area within the Atacora Structural Unit (ASU) of the Pan-African Dahomeyide orogenic belt, northwestern Bénin, is characterized by the monocyclic metasedimentary formations, amphibolites and orthogneisses which belong to the Internal zone of the belt. Representative samples of these different gold-bearing rocks have …
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Mesothermal gold deposits occur in all ages of volcanic-dominated and sediment-dominated supracrustal belts in collisional orogenic belts intruded by granitoids. The major difference between well- and poorly-endowed belts is that the well-endowed belts contain anomalously large deposits. The same pattern occurs within belt, with mining …
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Quartz is classically aligned with gold.The majority of hard rock deposits found appear to occur in quartz, and gold-in-quartz has even taken on a life of its own. The gold that appears in quartz is almost …
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The Lindero gold deposit is located in the Southern Puna plateau, northwest Argentina. The deposit is centered in a cluster of six subvolcanic intrusions emplaced at the margin of the Arizaro Basin. Three alteration types were recognized: (i) Ca–Na silicate (clinopyroxene + magnetite + K-feldspar + quartz + calcite ± plagioclase), (ii) K ...
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Gold in Benin occurs as primary and alluvial forms in various deposits and occurrences. The mineralisation has a regional distribution covering, in particular, the Atacora area (Natitingou) and...
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Gold is either the only economically important metal or a major by-product in 11 well-characterized deposit types—paleoplacer, orogenic, porphyry, epithermal, Carlin, placer, reduced intrusion related, volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS), skarn, carbonate replacement, and iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG), arguably more than for those of any …
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