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Arsenopyrite from
Morila Mine, Bougouni Cercle, Sikasso Region, Mali


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Arsenopyrite
Formula:FeAsS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arsenopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morila Mine, Bougouni Cercle, Sikasso Region, Mali
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:734178
Long-form Identifier:1:3:734178:6
GUID (UUID V4):b82aa8bd-5854-4e17-87ec-04975604e36a
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The Kalana vein-hosted gold deposit, southern Mali S. Salvi a,⁎, A. SangarĂ© b,c, Y. Driouch b, L. Siebenaller...Exploration, 3503 Av. Al Qods Hippodrome, BP 2699 Bamako, Mali d Avnel Gold Mining Limited, 39 Cheval Place, London...online xxxx Keywords: Birimian Quartz veins Arsenopyrite Gold Late-orogenic Late-tectonic a b s t r...domain of the West African Craton, in the south of Mali. These formations are intruded successively by small...formed micron-size native gold inclusions in arsenopyrite; a later episode, during vein shearing and fracturing
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Antimony-bearing Oxidized Minerals from the Jetty Mine, Anaconda, Montana Frank Dudás (foldudas@verizon...two notes documenting the mineralogy of the Jetty Mine, near Anaconda, Montana (Figure 1), focuses on the...report on the sulfides and sulfosalts of the Jetty Mine appeared in Mineral News last year (Dec., 2021)...antimony-bearing secondary minerals. The Silver Reef Mine north of Garrison produced material that was characterized...on page 2) A Favorite Specimen From the Harding Mine, Taos Co., New Mexico Bob Werner – werner@lcturbonet
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Intrusion-Related Affinity of the Morila Gold Mine, Southeast Mali CHRISTOPHER R.M. MCFARLANE,1,† JOHN...Queensland, QLD 4072 Australia Abstract The ~8 Moz Morila gold mine, hosted within Paleoproterozoic Birimian volcano-sedimentary...volcano-sedimentary rocks of southeast Mali, is spatially and temporally associated with prolonged (2098–2065...stages of the Eburnean orogeny. Visible gold at Morila is associated with variably deformed polymineralic...dikes associated with gold mineralization at the Morila deposit explicitly links granitic magmatism with
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and the largest Paleoproterozoic gold-producing region. The gold resources are concentrated within the...deposits are located in greenstone belts in Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire (or Ivory...significance of the gold mineralization within this region. With an endowment of >2,500 t Au, the Obuasi deposit...are spatially associated with granitoids, such as Morila (Hammond et al., 2011; MacFarlane et al., 2011)...(Mt) Grade (g/t) Au (t) Ghana 16 Burkina Faso 12 Mali 12 Guinea  9 Cîte d’Ivoire  5 Senegal  5 Sierra
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analyses show that gold also substitutes in the arsenopyrite crystal lattice (up to 55.5 ppm). The second...along fractures in V3A pyrite and V3B pyrite and arsenopyrite. Mineralogical and geochemical footprints as...Au-Sb-Bi-(Te-W) mineralisation at the Morila deposit in Southeast Mali. Our results support the hypothesis...quartz-ankerite-arsenopyrite vein; g native gold in an antitaxial V3B quartz-ankerite-arsenopyrite vein overprinting...LA-ICP-MS analyses Mineral generation Pyrite Arsenopyrite V2A V2B V2C D3S Sampled from greywacke
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worldclass orogenic gold deposits/districts in western Mali (e.g. Loulo and Sadiola). The Massawa ore body has...mineralization is associated with disseminated arsenopyrite–pyrite, which follows shear zones in the sedimentary...gold is held as a solid solution within either arsenopyrite or arsenian pyrite. Stable isotope data yield...ore genesis at the Loulo mining camp in western Mali. Hammond et al. (2011) suggested that magmatic fluids...played an important role in the evolution of the Morila orogenic gold deposit in South From: Jenkin, G
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deposits discovered, delineated and 62 developed in Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Cote...Ma in the Kédougou-Kéniéba Inlier in Senegal and Mali (Dioh et al., 2006), and 2181 172 - 2117 Ma in...1) crops out over 16 000 km2 in Senegal and 180 Mali, and is interpreted as the product of accretion...presence of the volcanic rocks in 247 the Dakar region indicates that magmatic activity, with concomitant...there are a number in Ghana, Burkina Faso and 260 Mali that formed before the Eburnean Orogeny (Tangaean
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Hill: A World-Class Carbonate-Hosted Gold Deposit in Mali, West Africa* Quentin Masurel,1,† Nicolas ThĂ©baud...rocks that crop out in eastern Senegal and western Mali. The geology of the inlier differs from other Paleoproterozoic...within 3 km of the Senegal-Mali shear zone, and country rocks in the region have undergone polycyclic...transcurrent tectonics, after the cessation of region-wide compressional deformation. The high-temperature...hydrothermal fluid circulation along the Senegal-Mali shear zone. Introduction The Paleoproterozoic terranes
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metallic deposits in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. Originally...the setting and origin of major deposits in the region, together with information on tonnages and grades...reduced granitoid-hosted gold mineralization in Mali, and present fluid inclusion and stable isotope...deposits in districts such as Loulo-Gounkoto and Morila. This is followed by I.K. Khalil, A.M. Moghazi...comparisons and contrasts with MVT deposits in the region. The last part is focused on sediment-hosted iron
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Although the Ity deposit is the oldest operating mine in Ivory Coast, very few studies exist on this deposit...Ivory Coast, some 700 km northwest of Abidjan. The mine is presently operated and mined by SMI (SociĂ©tĂ©...the saprolite and covers the land throughout the region; it is mineralized in the deposit area. This contribution...et al., 2006 for Ghana; Lawrence et al., 2013 for Mali) but also modiïŹed Cu–Au porphyry (e.g., at Gaoua...publication) or intrusion-related gold (e.g., at Morila, McFarlane et al., 2011; Hammond et al., 2011)
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Stable Isotope Study at the Loulo Mining District, Mali, West Africa: Implications for Multifluid Sources...Moz resource), in the Birimian terrane of western Mali, contains a range of mineralogically diverse styles...metamorphic fluids, a “salting out effect”). Introduction MALI is the second leading gold producing country in...African craton (inset Fig. 1). In southern Mali, the Morila, Syama, and Kalana deposits are situated within...in southwest Mali. This highly gold productive/prospective region is known as the west Mali gold belt,
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Au mineralization in southwest Ghana and western Mali. Dating provides further evidence that Au mineralization...major curved reverse faults during a period of region-wide contractional deformation (e.g., Twiss and...Burkina Faso 10° N1140000N Sierra Leone 240000E Mali 4° W 200000E 180000E 14° N Senegal 8° W 220000E...Burkina Faso Border Nogbele pluton N Guinea Mali Border 0 CÎte d'Ivoire Liberia Abidjan 250...wall of one of the main ENE-striking faults in the region, 1 km to the north-northeast of Tongon South (Fig
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basin covers about 40,000 kmÂČ in Guinea and adjacent Mali. It consists of upper Birimian sedimentary, volcaniclastic...dextral transpressive environment. The Siguiri region has been long recognized for its endowment and...KĂ©dougou-KĂ©niĂ©ba Inlier Study area A 0° 5°W MALI BURKINA FASO GUINEA BENIN 10°N SIERRA LEONE...LĂ©ro Volcanosed. / Siguiri Basin B 9°W 12°N MALI Tarkwaian / Tarkwa-like sed. Conglomerates 300...by dashed lines. Production of gold from this region is thought to have continued through the 12th and
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deposit, and dated by the Re-Os method on pyrite, arsenopyrite, and pyrrhotite grains that were coeval with...production of Ghana, which was the main gold-producing region in Africa before the discovery of the Witwatersrand...Essakhane NIGER Inata Yatela Sadiola SENEGAL Loulo MALI Siguiri GUINEA Syama Kiaka Poura HO BO Fig...4A Gaoua BA SF 10°N Ouagadougou Wona-Kona Morila Kalana GO BURKINA FASO Nassara BENIN TO G...isotope system, focusing on sulfides (pyrite, arsenopyrite) that are petrographically associated with the
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Characteristics of Archean gold deposits Deposit, country, region Henderson, Canada McInture-Hollinger, Canada Kolar...Kolar goldfield, India Nevoria, W. Australia Cuiaba Mine, SE Brazil Bronzewing, W. Australia Junction, W...with allowance for gold extracted over the entire mine life. Deposits with reserves over 100 tons usually...of Proterozoic gold deposits Deposit, country, region Age, Ma Au reserves* Reference Witwatersrand...Australia Harnas area, Sweden Aitik, Sweden Paiol mine, Brazil Kamennoe, Russia Cobalt Hill, Canada Gongo
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reported by Baratoux et al. (2015) for the whole Gaoua region. D1NA corresponds to D1Ga which is interpreted...(Perrouty et al., 2012). This event affected the Gaoua region mostly between ~ 2170 Ma and ~ 2140 Ma (Baratoux...relatively few gold occurrences in the WAC in which arsenopyrite was not observed, or at least not in signiïŹcant...in Burkina Faso: Inata; McCuaig et al., 2015; in Mali: Loulo, Lawrence et al., 2013; Tabakoroni– Tellem...1997; Burkina Faso: Taparko, Bourges et al., 1998; Mali: Loulo, Lawrence et al., 2013). In most of these
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FalĂ©mĂ© Fe Skarn and the Loulo Au Systems in Western Mali James S. Lambert-Smith,1,† Andrew Allibone,2 Peter...to 11.9‰), whereas ÎŽ34S values of pyrite and arsenopyrite from the Loulo deposits are consistently >6‰...district in the KĂ©dougouKĂ©niĂ©ba inlier in western Mali and eastern Senegal is one of the most richly endowed...500 km Gounkoto Petowal Loulo Mining District Morila Mana district, Wona, Kona 12Âș Syama Siguiri...of being separated by a terrane boundary (Senegal-Mali shear zone), which reopens the possibility that
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enriched in As, Ni, Cu, Ag, Sb, W, Au and Pb, and arsenopyrite in folded V1F quartz-carbonate veins. In contrast...(Py3N) and by the co-precipitation of Au-rich arsenopyrite in the V3N quartz veinlets (V3N) controlled...by zoned pyrites (Py3WK and Py2Y) and Au-rich arsenopyrite in the Wona-Kona and Yaho deposits. However...and ore paragenesis in the Loulo gold district (Mali), resulting from hydrothermal systems that sourced...district (Augustin et al., 2017). Pyrite and arsenopyrite textures and trace element composition and zonation
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such as auriferous tourmalinites (e.g., Loulo in Mali), Fe(-Cu) deposits (e.g., Falémé in Sénégal) or...gold-bearing sulfide mineralization (e.g., Syama in Mali) and gold paleoplacers (referred to as Tarkwaian...which evolve from a disseminated goldbearing arsenopyrite and Au-bearing quartz lode type to a quartz-vein...Burkina Faso; and Morila (McFarlane et al., 2011) and Loulo (Lawrence et al., 2013) in Mali. This paper presents... 15°N NIGER SENEGAL B) 3°W B) Ouagadougou MALI Dédougou BURKINA FASO GUINEA TO BENIN G 10°N
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Finland, Brazil, Australia, Sweden, West Africa, Mali, and Ghana. The data were collected from 22 publications...deposits among these are Callie (Australia), Morila and Yalea (Mali), and Piaba (Brazil). Meso-Neoarchean deposits...Mazhala, China Qolqoleh, Iran Bangbu, China Oriental mine, USA Big Hurrah, USA Mouther Lode, USA Yata, China...Chichago mine, USA Berners Bay, USA Alaska-Juneau mine, USA Treadwell mine, USA Sumdum Chief mine, USA Willow...Olimpiadinskoye, Russia Harnas area, Sweden Paiol mine, Brazil Udereyskoye, Russia Tunkillia, Nuckulla
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amounts of limonite, chalcopyrite and covellite. Arsenopyrite is a main ore mineral and often transformed...fractures. Pyrite occurs within fractures of arsenopyrite and /or between the arsenoyprite crystals. Some...occurs as single crystal or as aggregates in arsenopyrite. The Au content of the ore sample lies between...GĂŒneyköy-UƟak (orogenic ore) Au-in quartz veins (arsenopyrite related); Menderes Massif (orogenic ore-Au in...investigated in detail. Previous studies in this region are related to its mineralogy, general geology
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35 km to the W of the former producing 5 Moz Omai mine and is interpreted to be an orogenic gold deposit...and timing of gold mineralization throughout the region. Magmatism within the 200 km2 of the Karouni camp...past-producing 5 Moz Omai Mine (Voicu et al., 1999), the 8.4 Moz Aurora Mine (Cole et al., 2013), and...dikes and associated normal faulting. The Karouni mine consists of two deposits, Smarts (Fig. 5) and Hicks...Karouni and is presumed to represent basement for the region (Fig. 1B). 4.2.1 Early Suite (Samples WHG, GSG
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These are (1) gold-bearing sulfides, dominantly arsenopyrite, mainly disseminated in metasedimentary rocks...such as strain shadows surrounding gold-bearing arsenopyrite parallel with S2Ob, but folded by S3Ob, indicates...present in the epitaxial growth zones of the arsenopyrite grains. Although the large mineralized quartz...volcanic rocks Obuasi mine B Sibi su 6Âș08N A’ Gyabunsu Sansu Gold mine Main thrust faults s...made available by more than 10 years of additional mine development since the last study (Allibone et al
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Deposit, Jiangnan Orogenic Belt: Evidence from the Arsenopyrite and Chlorite Mineral Thermometers Si-Chen Sun...trending auriferous pyrite-arsenopyrite-quartz veins and disseminated pyrite-arsenopyrite-sericite-quartz alteration...the Zhengchong deposit: (i) Quartz–auriferous arsenopyrite and pyrite; (ii) Quartz–polymetallic sulfides–native...native gold occurred at the deposit. Disseminated arsenopyrite and pyrite with invisible gold in them formed...shadows around the arsenopyrite and the formation of fractures of the arsenopyrite. Meanwhile, the infiltration
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https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ympm21 Kibali Gold Mine sulphide concentrate treatment – understanding the... Solomon Mogashoa & P. Lotz (2019): Kibali Gold Mine sulphide concentrate treatment – understanding the...https://doi.org/10.1080/25726641.2019.1631633 Kibali Gold Mine sulphide concentrate treatment – understanding the...South Africa ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Kibali Gold Mine (KGM) processing plant treats both free milling...Accepted 10 June 2019 Introduction Kibali Gold Mine processing plant concentrate handling circuit treats
 
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