 | Salvi, Stefano, Velásquez, German, Miller, John M., Béziat, Didier, Siebenaller, Luc, Bourassa, Yan (2016) The Pampe gold deposit (Ghana): Constraints on sulfide evolution during gold mineralization. Ore Geology Reviews, 78. 673-686 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.11.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | com/locate/oregeorev The Pampe gold deposit (Ghana): Constraints on sulfide evolution during gold mineralization Stefano...November 2015 Keywords: Ghana Orogenic gold Birimian Ashanti West Africa Gold nanoparticles a b s t r...r a c t The Ashanti belt, a world-renowned gold producing region in southwest Ghana, has received renewed...focused on the major deposits situated along the Ashanti shear zone and in the adjacent Tarkwa Basin to...processes that control gold deposition at the regional scale. At Pampe, gold endowment has been estimated |  | Allibone, A., Teasdale, J., Cameron, G., Etheridge, M., Uttley, P., Soboh, A., Appiah-Kubi, J., Adanu, A., Arthur, R., Mamphey, J., Odoom, B., Zuta, J., Tsikata, A., Pataye, F., Famiyeh, S., Lamb, E. (2002) Timing and Structural Controls on Gold Mineralization at the Bogoso Gold Mine, Ghana, West Africa. Economic Geology, 97 (5) 949-969 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.97.5.949 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Structural Controls on Gold Mineralization at the Bogoso Gold Mine, Ghana, West Africa ANDREW ALLIBONE...PATAYE, SAMMUEL FAMIYEH, Bogoso Gold Ltd, Airport Post Office, Accra, Ghana AND EDDIE LAMB Resource...Service Group, P.O. Box 16486, Accra, Ghana Abstract The Bogoso gold deposit comprises ~20 open pits scattered...jogs often coincide with intersecting minor faults. Gold is largely confined to the graphitic mylonite, which...folds. Approximately 75 percent of the gold extracted from the Bogoso district has been mined from a cluster |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Paleoproterozoic, turbidite-hosted, gold deposits of the Ashanti gold belt (Ghana, West Africa): Comparative analysis...analysis of turbidite-hosted gold deposits and an updated genetic model John Berge ⁎ JB MinQuest, Parkvägen...December 2010 Keywords: Turbidite-hosted gold deposits Graphite–gold association Interflow (chemical) sediments...fluids and gold a b s t r a c t The Paleoproterozoic gold deposits of the Ashanti gold belt, Ghana, occur...suggested in this article to belong to that class of gold deposits recognized as ‘turbidite-hosted’. Hence |  | Allibone, A., Hayden, P., Cameron, G., Duku, F. (2004) Paleoproterozoic Gold Deposits Hosted by Albite- and Carbonate-Altered Tonalite in the Chirano District, Ghana, West Africa. Economic Geology, 99 (3) 479-497 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.99.3.479 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Paleoproterozoic Gold Deposits Hosted by Albite- and Carbonate-Altered Tonalite in the Chirano District, Ghana, West...Supergroup rocks of southwest Ghana host numerous mesothermal lode gold deposits, including the >38 million...(Moz) Ashanti deposit at Obuasi and other multimillion ounce deposits at Bogoso, Konongo, Prestea, Bibiani...Bibiani, and in the Yamfo-Sefwi region. Gold deposits of the Chirano district are localized along the Chirano...zones on the southeast margin of the Sefwi-Bibiani belt. Economically significant mineralization at Chirano |  | Perrouty, Stéphane, Aillères, Laurent, Jessell, Mark W., Baratoux, Lenka, Bourassa, Yan, Crawford, Brenton (2012) Revised Eburnean geodynamic evolution of the gold-rich southern Ashanti Belt, Ghana, with new field and geophysical evidence of pre-Tarkwaian deformations. Precambrian Research, 204. 12-39 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.01.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Eburnean geodynamic evolution of the gold-rich southern Ashanti Belt, Ghana, with new field and geophysical...2012 Keywords: Birimian Eburnean Paleoproterozoic Ghana Mineralisation a b s t r a c t Integration of regional...paleoproterozoic structural evolution of southwestern Ghana. The study area is dominated by three metavolcanic and metasedimentary...manifested as regional scale folding in the southern Ashanti Belt. D1 synorogenic granitoids were intruded between...under greenschist metamorphic condition. Syn-D1 gold mineralisation associated with quartz veining could |  | Ouiya, Pascal, Siebenaller, Luc, Salvi, Stefano, Béziat, Didier, Naba, Séta, Baratoux, Lenka, Naré, Athanase, Franceschi, Guy (2016) The Nassara gold prospect, Gaoua District, southwestern Burkina Faso. Ore Geology Reviews, 78. 623-630 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.11.026 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/oregeorev The Nassara gold prospect, Gaoua District, southwestern Burkina Faso...West African Craton Boromo Greenstone Belt Burkina Faso Orogenic gold Shear zone a b s t r a c t The Nassara-Au...prospect is located in the Birimian Boromo Greenstone Belt in southwestern Burkina Faso. It is part of a larger...shales) at the southern termination of the Boromo Belt. Gold is associated with pyrite and other Fe-bearing...As-rich growth zones, the latter containing gold inclusions. Gold mineralization formed during D2NA. Subsequent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | distribution of gold in quartz veins and sulfide ores of the Ashanti mine and other deposits in the Ashanti belt...belt of Ghana: genetic implications Received: 28 September 1995 / Accepted: 11 June 1996 Abstract The Ashanti...Ashanti belt of Ghana constitutes a gold province which has produced a total of about 1500 t of gold historically...historically. Gold mineralization is found in steep, NNE-SSW to NE-SW trending shear zones predominantly...Ma), and in recent placers. The distribution of gold, its chemistry, paragenesis and mineralogical siting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Springer-Verlag 1994 Gold mineralization in As-rich mesothermal gold ores of the Bogosu-Prestea mining district...district of the Ashanti Gold Belt, Ghana: remobilization of "invisible" gold A.H. Mumin 1, M.E. Fleet 1, and...1994 Abstract. The Bogosu-Prestea mining district of southwestern Ghana is a 33 km section of the Early...Early Proterozoic Ashanti Gold Belt. Greenschist facies carbonaceous and carbonate-bearing turbidites...and mafic dikes host numerous economic mesothermal gold deposits. Structurally higher ores in the Bogosu |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in Austria Evolution of gold mineralization in the Ashanti Gold Belt, Ghana: evidence from carbonate...rocks of the Bogosu and Prestea mining districts of the Ashanti Gold Belt, Ghana. The compositions of coexisting...and composition of fluids in the Bogosu-Prestea mesothermal gold system. Temperatures derived from the...alteration of mafic dikes, and 340 to 140 °C for gold deposition. The latter range occurs on a thin-section...Zusammenfassung Entstehung der Goldvererzung im Ashanti Gold Belt, Ghana: Riickschlfi'sse aus Karbonatzusammensetzungen |  | | Report (chapter) | | on June 5, 2015 Sustainable small-scale gold mining in Ghana: setting and strategies for sustainability...Tarkwa, Ghana (e-mail: arrojaeshun@yahoo.co.uk) Abstract: In Ghana, small-scale/artisanal gold mining...indigenous operators from dealing in gold ore, amalgam, bullion, retorted gold, slags, concentrates and mercury...Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and the World Bank, the Ghana government has undertaken a number of initiatives...strategies that aim to make small-scale gold mining in Ghana more sustainable (i.e. more efficient, less |  | Pigois, Jon-Philippe, Groves, David I., Fletcher, Ian R., McNaughton, Neal J., Snee, Lawrence W. (2003) Age constraints on Tarkwaian palaeoplacer and lode-gold formation in the Tarkwa-Damang district, SW Ghana. Mineralium Deposita, 38 (6) 695-714 doi:10.1007/s00126-003-0360-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tarkwaian palaeoplacer and lode-gold formation in the Tarkwa-Damang district, SW Ghana Received: 17 June 2002...epigenetic gold-forming events are recorded in the world-class gold province of southwest Ghana. A pre-Tarkwaian...rise to the world-class (e.g. Prestea) to giant (e.g. Obuasi) orogenic gold deposits which have made the...against derivation of the palaeoplacer gold from an orogenic gold source related to the compressional phase... Instead, they suggest that the gold source was either orogenic gold lodes related to an earlier compressional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | content of fluid inclusions in gold mineralisations in the Ashanti Belt, Ghana: a new category of ore forming...samples from the Ashanti, Konongo-Southern Cross, Prestea, Abosso/ Damang and Ayanfuri gold deposits in the...the Ashanti Belt, Ghana. Primary fluid inclusions in quartz from mineralised veins of the Ashanti, Prestea...mineralisation. Here inclusions associated with the gold mineralisation contain a low salinity (<6 eq.wt...inclusions of 0.65 to 1.06 g/cm3 at Ashanti, 0.85 to 0.98 g/cm3 at Prestea, up to 1.02 g/cm3 at Konongo-Southern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Characteristics of ore minerals associated with gold at the Prestea mine, Ghana NAPOLEONQ. HAMMOND Geological Institute... Japan Abstract Gold in Early Proterozoic Birimian greenstone at Prestea in Ghana is associated with...boulangerite and jamesonite. The occurrence of the gold is intimately associated with arsenopyrite and the...tetrahedrites at Prestea constitute the major component of sulphosalts associated with gold and occurring...As)4S13. The tetrahedrites co-precipitated with gold exhibit ideal characteristics indicating an equilibruim |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Formation at the Prestea Mesothermal Vein Gold Deposit in the Birimian System of Ghana a Napoleon Q. Hammond...Formation at the Prestea Mesothermal Vein Gold Deposit in the Birimian System of Ghana, International Geology...Formation at the Prestea Mesothermal Vein Gold Deposit in the Birimian System of Ghana NAPOLEON Q. HAMMOND...Abstract The Prestea lode gold deposit occurs in a graphitic shear zone in the Birimian system of Ghana. The...Proterozoic greenstone assemblage (**« 2100 Ma) with large gold deposits, consisting of a lower unit predominantly |  | Mil�si, J.P., Ledru, P., Ankrah, P., Johan, V., Marcoux, E., Vinchon, Ch. (1991) The metallogenic relationship between Birimian and Tarkwaian gold deposits in Ghana. Mineralium Deposita, 26 (3) doi:10.1007/bf00209263 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | relationship between BMmian and Tarkwaian gold deposits in Ghana J.P. Mil~si 1, p. Ledru 1, p. Ankrah z...GeologicalSurvey Department, PO Box M. 80, Accra, Ghana Received: November 14, 1989/Accepted: December 12...traditional concept of the Early Proterozoic gold deposits in Ghana i.e. gold-bearing shear zones overlain by Tarkwaian...Tarkwaian paleoplacers containing reworked gold derived from the shear-zones - needs to be reconsidered...reconsidered in the light of recent research in Ghana, the Ivory Coast and French Guiana. This research has revealed |  | Oberthuer, Thomas, Mumm, Andreas Schmidt, Vetter, Ulrich, Simon, Klaus, Amanor, Joe A. (1996) Gold mineralization in the Ashanti Belt of Ghana; genetic constraints of the stable isotope geochemistry. Economic Geology, 91 (2) 289-301 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.91.2.289 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vol.91, 1996,pp 289-301 Gold Mineralization in the Ashanti Belt of Ghana: GeneticConstraints of the... AMANOR AshantiGoldfields Company Ltd., Obuasi,Ghana Abstract The Ashantibeltof Ghanaisthekeydistrictof...ofprimary goldmineralization arepresent in theAshanti belt:(1)mesothermal, generally steeplydippingquartzveinsin...theDixcoveorbelt-type granitoids whichoccurwithin (e.g., Rye, 1993)gold deposits (seealsocontributions in the volcanicbelts...carbonin Birimianargillites andchertsfromGhana(Leube Gold Mineralization et al.,1990),anda stableisotope |  | | Book | | African economy during the interwar period Ghana, independence and gold: a case study Conclusion Poverty and...an agent of poverty in West Africa’s smallscale gold-mining industry Sandra Pardie and Gavin M. Hilson...Fostering cooperation between small- and largescale gold miners in West Africa Richard K. Amankwah and C...assessment of relations between ASM and large-scale mine parties in West Africa Possible ways forward Artisanal...107 109 mel 112 113 10. Artisanal and small-scale gold mines in Burkina Faso: today and tomorrow iS Eric |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Evolutionof Hydrothermal Fluidsin the AshantiGoldBelt,Ghana: StableIsotopeGeochemistry of Carbonates, Graphite...aeeretionary complex. Thegoldoresarelocalized withinthe Ashanti structural beltwhichwe suggest becamea conduitfor...and0 to 1.5 per mil for carbon. IN THEBogosu, Prestea, andAshanti goldminingdistricts of 3 to 6 per mil...(e.g.,AnstheEarlyProterozoic (•2.1 Ga)Ashanti goldbeltof Ghana, Studies carbonate minerals andquartzareubiquitous...duringmineral respectively. studies onthe Bogosu-Prestea miningdistrict, fluidinteraction. Controlling parameters |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and paleoplacer gold mineralisation in early Proterozoic rocks from southwest Ghana, West Africa B.N...Proterozoic age (ca. 2100 Ma) host the major gold deposits in Ghana. The deposits are either located in mesothermal...of mineralisation are largely confined to the Ashanti Belt, one of four parallel northeasttrending volcanic...and structure of the belts are similar, the Ashanti belt is characterised by a more tectonised northwest...where most of the epigenetic gold deposits are located. In these deposits, gold mineralisation is located |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | inclusion studies of the Abawso gold prospect, near the Ashanti Belt, Ghana Received: 9 January 2002 / Accepted:...Springer-Verlag 2003 Abstract The major Ghanaian lode gold deposits are preferentially aligned along the western...Kumasi Basin with the Ashanti and Sefwi Belts, respectively. The investigated area of the Abawso small-scale...concession, covering the workings of the old Ettadom mine, is situated 3 km west of the lithological contact...the Birimian metavolcanic rocks of the Akropong Belt in the east with the Birimian metasedimentary rocks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | content of ¯uid inclusions in gold mineralisations in the Ashanti Belt, Ghana: a new category of ore forming...publication on the mesothermal gold deposits in the Ashanti Belt of Ghana, we describe the regional occurrence...0.8) ¯uid inclusion assemblages associated with gold mineralisations of variable structural settings...al. (1990) on telluride mineralisation in the Ashanti deposit. It is clearly stated in this publication...(1994) that occurrence of tellurides at the Ashanti mine is only of limited, local importance and is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Source of Early Proterozoic Lode Gold Deposits of the Birimian Volcanic Belt, West Africa a a Reiner Klemd...Source of Early Proterozoic Lode Gold Deposits of the Birimian Volcanic Belt, West Africa, International Geology...Source of Early Proterozoic Lode Gold Deposits of the Birimian Volcanic Belt, West Africa REINER KLEMD, U...17:41 19 April 2015 Gold-bearing veins of Early Proterozoic lode gold deposits of Ghana and Burkina Faso...to 1.15 g/cm 3 ), in contrast to most other lode gold deposits of greenstone affiliation. Mineral modeling |  | Feybesse, Jean-Louis, Billa, Mario, Guerrot, Catherine, Duguey, Emmanuel, Lescuyer, Jean-Luc, Milesi, Jean-Pierre, Bouchot, Vincent (2006) The paleoproterozoic Ghanaian province: Geodynamic model and ore controls, including regional stress modeling. Precambrian Research, 149 (3) 149-196 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2006.06.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | initiated the creation of crustal segments (Sefwi, Ashanti, Kibi belts, . . .). This was followed at around...regional-scale, first-order D2 faults (e.g. the Konongo-Ashanti-Prestea Fault) acted as channels exercising a control...displacement and geometry of a rigid block (southeastern Ghana) coinciding with a high stress zone. Tectonic forces...faults centred on the western border of the Ashanti Belt and formed a synclinorium centred on the Tarkwaian...order to determine the relationship between the gold-bearing hydrothermal event and the geodynamic evolution |  | Kříbek, Bohdan, Sýkorová, Ivana, Machovič, Vladimír, Knésl, Ilja, Laufek, František, Zachariáš, Jiří (2015) The origin and hydrothermal mobilization of carbonaceous matter associated with Paleoproterozoic orogenic-type gold deposits of West Africa. Precambrian Research, 270. 300-317 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.09.017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | matter associated with Paleoproterozoic orogenic-type gold deposits of West Africa Bohdan Kříbek a,∗ , Ivana...September 2015 Keywords: Carbonaceous matter Graphite Gold deposits Paleoproterozoic West Africa a b s t r...orogenic-type gold deposits in Burkina Faso (the Inata deposit), in Mali (the Syama deposit), and in Ghana (the...(the Obuashi and Bogoso deposits). Two types of CM occur in all the studied deposits: metamorphosed and...reserved. 1. Introduction Many mesozonal orogenic gold deposits in metasediments (Groves et al., 2003; |  | | Book | | Ver' "\ ~~ • THE MINERAL AND ROCK RESOURCES OF GHANA f btYON RALPH Dedicated to my parellfs for not...ISBN 90 6191 597 X paper edition only for sale in Ghana © 1985 A.A.Balkema, P.O.Box I 675, 3000 BR Rotterdam...REPUBLIC OF GHANA- GEOGRAPHY,PHYSIOGRAPHY,GEOLOGY AND GEOHYDROLOGY 6 3. THE MINERALRESOURCESOF GHANA - BACKGROUND...EXPLOITATION IN GHANA 572 12. TABLES OF SUMMARY OF MINERAL AND ROCK RESOURCESOF GHANA 577 13. LEGISLATION...590 APPENDIX 597 INDEX 602 V Preface The Ghana Geological SuJ;"vey DepaJ;"tment in 1.962, published |
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