Ashanti Mine, Obuasi, Ashanti gold belt, Western Region, Ghana

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A gold property producing an average of 7,500 kg Au (1983-1984).

References

- Mining Annual Review(1985):448.
- Mumin, A.H. and Fleet, M.E. (1995): Evolution of gold mineralization in the Ashanti Gold Belt, Ghana: evidence from carbonate compositions and parageneses. Mineralogy and Petrology: 55: 265-280.
- Mumin, A.H., Fleet, M.E., and Longstaffe, F.J. (1996): Evolution of hydrothermal fields in the Ashanti Gold Belt, Ghana: stable isotope geochemistry of carbonates, graphite and quartz. Economic Geology: 91: 135-148.
- Oberthür, T., Weiser, T., Amanor, J.A., and Chryssoulis, S.L. (1997): Mineralogical siting and distribution of gold in quartz veins and sulfide ores of the Ashanti mine and other deposits in the Ashanti belt of Ghana: genetic implications. Mineralium Deposita 32, 2-15.
- Schmidt Mumm, A., Oberthür, T., Vetter, U., and Blenkinsop, T.G. (1997): High CO2 content of fluid inclusions in gold mineralisations in the Ashanti Belt, Ghana: a new category of ore forming fluids? Mineralium Deposita 32, 107-118.

Mineral List

Alabandite Altaite Ankerite Arsenopyrite Aurostibite Bornite Boulangerite Bournonite Calaverite Calcite Chalcocite

Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Coloradoite Freibergite Galena Gersdorffite Goethite Gold var: Electrum Graphite Hematite

Henryite Hessite Kostovite Löllingite Marcasite Muscovite Petzite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz var: Smoky Quartz

Rickardite Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite Stützite Sylvanite Tetrahedrite Weissite

41 entries listed. 38 valid minerals.