Multi-stage and multi-sourced fluid and gold in the formation of orogenic gold deposits in the world-class Mana district of Burkina Faso–Revealed by LA-ICP-MS …

J Augustin, D Gaboury - Ore Geology Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Mana is a world-class Paleoproterozoic orogenic gold district (∼ 8.0 Moz) that includes five
gold deposits (Fofina, Nyafé, Siou, Wona-Kona and Yaho) hosted in various rocks in the …

A geodynamic model for the Paleoproterozoic (ca. 2.27–1.96 Ga) Birimian Orogen of the southern West African Craton–Insights into an evolving accretionary …

M Grenholm, M Jessell, N Thébaud - Earth-science reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents an updated geodynamic model for the 2270–1960 Ma Birimian Orogen
in the southern West African Craton (sWAC), which form part of a large accretionary …

Orogenic gold: is a genetic association with magmatism realistic?

RJ Goldfarb, I Pitcairn - Mineralium Deposita, 2023 - Springer
Many workers accept a metamorphic model for orogenic gold ore formation, where a gold-
bearing aqueous-carbonic fluid is an inherent product of devolatilization across the …

[HTML][HTML] The conjunction of factors that lead to formation of giant gold provinces and deposits in non-arc settings

DI Groves, RJ Goldfarb, M Santosh - Geoscience Frontiers, 2016 - Elsevier
It is quite evident that it is not anomalous metal transport, nor unique depositional conditions,
nor any single factor at the deposit scale, that dictates whether a mineral deposit becomes a …

New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous …

WC Clyde, P Wilf, A Iglesias, RL Slingerland… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A detailed Re-Os molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite geochronology at five shear-hosted
Au occurrences (Kenge, Mbenge, Porcupine, Konokono, and Dubwana) in the Lupa …

A fluid inclusion and stable isotope study at the Loulo mining district, Mali, West Africa: Implications for multifluid sources in the generation of orogenic gold deposits

DM Lawrence, PJ Treloar, AH Rankin… - Economic …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The world-class Loulo mining district (15.5 Moz resource), in the Birimian terrane of western
Mali, contains a range of mineralogically diverse styles of orogenic gold mineralization. The …

West Africa: The world's premier Paleoproterozoic gold province

RJ Goldfarb, AS André-Mayer… - Economic …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
West Africa, with presently an approximate 10,000-metric ton (t) gold endowment, is one of
the world's great gold provinces and the largest Paleoproterozoic gold-producing region …

New insights into the crustal growth of the Paleoproterozoic margin of the Archean Kéména-Man domain, West African craton (Guinea): Implications for gold mineral …

A Eglinger, N Thébaud, A Zeh, J Davis, J Miller… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Baoulé-Mossi Paleoproterozoic domain on the West African Craton is known
for its world-class orogenic gold deposits formed during the Eburnean orogeny between ca …

Evidence for two stages of mineralization in West Africa's largest gold deposit: Obuasi, Ghana

D Fougerouse, S Micklethwaite, S Ulrich… - Economic …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The supergiant Obuasi gold deposit is the largest deposit in the Paleoproterozoic Birimian
terranes of West Africa with 62 Moz of gold (past production+ resources). The deposit is …

Apatite records metamorphic and hydrothermal fluid evolution at the large Shuangqishan orogenic gold deposit, SE China

Y Ma, SY Jiang, HE Frimmel - Bulletin, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Orogenic gold deposits are currently the world's major source of Au, but uncertainty exists in
the timing of mineralization relative to the ages of host rocks, metamorphism, and …