A surface mine, opened in 2005, for mining an estimate of 30.000 ounces of Au-reserves. This mine is located about 7 km NW of the mined-out Bleida copper deposit (Bleida mine).
Sulphide-free Au-Pd mineralization, ocurring in a volcano-sedimentary sequence in altered amphibolites and chlorite schists of the Neoproterozoic Bou Azzer-El Graara inlier. Drilling also revealed a copper sulphide mineralization at greater depth.
References
- El Ghorfi, M., Oberthür, T., Melcher, F., Lüders, V., El Boukhari, A., Maacha, L., Ziadi, R., and Baoutoul, H. (2006): Gold–palladium mineralization at Bleïda Far West, Bou Azzer–El Graara Inlier, Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Mineralium Deposita 41, 549-564.
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