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Albite from
Gara deposit, Loulo Mining area, Falémé River area, Sitakilly Commune, Kéniéba Cercle, Kayes Region, Mali


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gara deposit, Loulo Mining area, Falémé River area, Sitakilly Commune, Kéniéba Cercle, Kayes Region, Mali
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1446911
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1446911:2
GUID (UUID V4):0239116a-577c-4868-83c8-3eea00a70b90
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199–227 The Geology and Mineralogy of the Loulo Mining District, Mali, West Africa: Evidence for Two Distinct...Abstract Loulo is a world-class orogenic gold mining district in the Birimian terrane of western Mali. Orebodies...higher order shears associated with the Senegal-Mali shear zone, with gold mineralization largely linked...camp is divided into two distinct styles of gold deposit on the basis of differing geologic characteristics...is typified by the Gara deposit, whereas the other by the Yalea deposit. Both deposit styles are hosted
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uk 1 11 1 Non-standard abbreviation: Senegal-Mali Shear Zone - SMSZ 1 12 Abstract 13 The genesis...single orogenic gold ore district. The Loulo Mining District in Mali, 20 West Africa hosts several large...pre-ore Na- and multi-stage B-metasomatism. The Gara deposit, as well as several 22 smaller satellites...a powerful tool for testing the level of source region variability in these fluids, and 41 by extension...rock alteration dominated by carbonate, mica, (± albite), chlorite, 52 quartz, and pyrite; 5) aqueous-carbonic
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Interactions Between the Falémé Fe Skarn and the Loulo Au Systems in Western Mali James S. Lambert-Smith...Australia Abstract The Gara, Yalea, and Gounkoto Au deposits of the >17 Moz Loulo mining district, largely...of the 650-Mt Fe skarn deposits in the adjacent Falémé batholith. The Au deposits are interpreted to have...Recognition of an intrusive relationship between the Falémé batholith and Kofi series opens the possibility...plutonic rocks of the Falémé batholith. We combine these with existing data from the Loulo Au deposits to model
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Inclusion and Stable Isotope Study at the Loulo Mining District, Mali, West Africa: Implications for Multifluid...world-class Loulo mining district (15.5 Moz resource), in the Birimian terrane of western Mali, contains...as tourmaline-bearing, Fe-rich, orebodies as at Gara. New fluid inclusion and stable isotope data presented...from Yalea Main and two other similar orebodies (Loulo-3 and Baboto) reveal the dominance of coexisting...to –15.8‰). Fluid inclusion investigations from Gara and a similar style orebody (Yalea North) indicate
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Hill: A World-Class Carbonate-Hosted Gold Deposit in Mali, West Africa* Quentin Masurel,1,† Nicolas Thébaud...France Abstract The ~8-Moz Sadiola Hill gold deposit is located in the Kédougou-Kénieba inlier, a window...rocks that crop out in eastern Senegal and western Mali. The geology of the inlier differs from other Paleoproterozoic...gold deposit occurs within 3 km of the Senegal-Mali shear zone, and country rocks in the region have...Au-As-Sb ± Cu-FeW-Mo-Ag-Bi-Zn-Pb-Te. The Sadiola Hill deposit shares a similar relative timing and structural
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elsevier.com/locate/oregeorev The Gounkoto Au deposit, West Africa: Constraints on ore genesis and volatile...online 28 October 2015 Keywords: Gounkoto gold deposit Fluid inclusions Stable isotopes Orogenic gold...Senegal–Mali Shear Zone a b s t r a c t The Loulo–Gounkoto complex in the Kédougou–Kéniéba Inlier hosts...orogenic gold deposits, situated along the Senegal–Mali Shear Zone. This west Malian gold belt represents...district outside Ghana. The Gounkoto deposit is hosted to the south of the Gara and Yalea gold mines in the Kofi
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metallic deposits in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. Originally...terms of regional metallogeny and potential future mining activity. The lead paper, by M. Bouabdellah and...the setting and origin of major deposits in the region, together with information on tonnages and grades...describes the giant Imiter silver-mercury vein deposit and suggests that degassing was the main ore-forming...the Bou Madine gold-silver-lead-zinc (±copper) deposit in a Neoproterozoic caldera setting, and summarize
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Winter Meeting of the Geological Society’s Mineral Deposit Studies Group and the Applied Mineralology Group...Craig J. R. Hart1, Richard J. Goldfarb2 1 Mineral Deposit Research Unit, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences...sources regarded to be integral to the orogenic gold deposit model. The vast landmass of Eastern Asia (China...These, and probably the deposits of the East Sayan region (e.g. Zun Holba, Sora, Aksug), are part of the...where the Sukhoi Log deposit formed, potentially at a similar time, but this region is dominated by deformation
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UK The world-class carbonate-hosted Navan Zn–Pb deposit, Ireland, is Europe’s leading zinc producer. The...behalf of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and The AusIMM DOI 10.1179/1743275812Y.0000000003...Ore depositional processes in the Navan Zn–Pb deposit, Ireland, Econ. Geol., 93, 535–563. Fallick, A...Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA The Kamoa copper deposit, Central African Copperbelt, Democratic Republic...consistent with an unconformity controlled uranium deposit (Bowell, 2011; Le Roux and Toens, 1982). Uranium
 
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