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Albite from
Chirano Gold Mine, Bibiani, Western North Region, Ghana


Locality type:District
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 Chirano Gold Mine, Bibiani, Western North Region, Ghana
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:834688
Long-form Identifier:1:3:834688:9
GUID (UUID V4):6c7b46ab-dd2b-4754-8ff9-0a55e171e49e
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
90.5km (56.3 miles) ⓘBogoso North Mine, Bogoso-Prestea area, Ashanti gold belt, Ghana
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Paleoproterozoic Gold Deposits Hosted by Albite- and Carbonate-Altered Tonalite in the Chirano District, Ghana, West...Red Back Mining NL, P.O. Box 1317, West Perth, Western Australia 6872, Australia Abstract Paleoproterozoic...Supergroup rocks of southwest Ghana host numerous mesothermal lode gold deposits, including the >38 million...Konongo, Prestea, Bibiani, and in the Yamfo-Sefwi region. Gold deposits of the Chirano district are localized...localized along the Chirano lode horizon, a 9-km segment of the Chirano, and related shear zones on the
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displacement and geometry of a rigid block (southeastern Ghana) coinciding with a high stress zone. Tectonic forces...sinistral and reverse-sinistral faults centred on the western border of the Ashanti Belt and formed a synclinorium...order to determine the relationship between the gold-bearing hydrothermal event and the geodynamic evolution...the margin of the Archean São Luis Craton where gold deposits were emplaced as a result of crustal growth...appears particularly favourable for the presence of gold. 2. Within the paleogeographic setting at the end
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Palaeoproterozoic crust of the West African Craton in Ghana | Johnson Manu1 | Ben‐Xun Su2 Patrick Asamoah Sakyi1...Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon‐Accra, Ghana 2 Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources...and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana‐Atomic, Legon‐Accra, Ghana 4 Department of Geology, University...Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon‐Accra, Ghana. Email: jmanu@ug.edu.gh Funding information...rocks of the Sefwi and Lawra volcanic belts in Ghana respectively were analysed for their major and trace
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on granitoid-hosted gold mineralization and paleostress history of the Edikan gold deposits, Kumasi Basin...Basin, southwestern Ghana 2 Ghislain Tourigny 1 & Markos D. Tranos & Quentin Masurel 3 & Oliver Kreuzer...> 9 Moz total aggregate gold endowment at the Edikan mine, Kumasi Basin, Ghana, is contained within a...a cluster of orogenic gold deposits located along the Akropong fault zone. The granitoid-hosted orebodies...Esuajah), essentially an interconnected mesh of gold-bearing quartz veins, formed during deformation
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architecture: tectonic foundations for East Asian orogenic gold Craig J. R. Hart1, Richard J. Goldfarb2 1 Mineral...USA Orogenic gold systems comprise the largest number of gold deposits and greatest gold endowment of...settings that do not fit current models for orogenic gold deposits. These uncertainties conspire to cause...sources regarded to be integral to the orogenic gold deposit model. The vast landmass of Eastern Asia...activity and overprinted by episodic magmatism. Gold deposits and districts formed preferentially in
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Aravalli‐Delhi Fold Belt, Rajasthan, western India: Genetic linkage to the gold (±Cu ± U) mineralization Rahul...asvenkatesh@iitism.ac.in Paleoproterozoic Bhukia gold deposit is located within the Debari Group of Aravalli...India. The major lithounits that are associated with gold–graphite (±Cu ± U) mineralization exposed in Bhukia...of gold are identified in the thick gossan zones that occurs parallel to the shear zone. The gold–sulfide...associated with the albitite, follows the boundaries of albite grains which confirms the role of these weak zones
 
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