Structural Control of Auriferous Mineralization in the Birimian: Case of the Agbahou Deposit in the Region of Divo, Côte d’Ivoire — Oak Academic Publishing
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Structural Control of Auriferous Mineralization in the Birimian: Case of the Agbahou Deposit in the Region of Divo, Côte d’Ivoire
Geology of Basement and Metallogeny Laboratory (GBML), Training and Research Unit of Earth Sciences and Mining Re-sources, University of Felix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, Abidjan-Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
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Geology of Basement and Metallogeny Laboratory (GBML), Training and Research Unit of Earth Sciences and Mining Re-sources, University of Felix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, Abidjan-Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
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Geology of Basement and Metallogeny Laboratory (GBML), Training and Research Unit of Earth Sciences and Mining Re-sources, University of Felix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, Abidjan-Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
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Geology of Basement and Metallogeny Laboratory (GBML), Training and Research Unit of Earth Sciences and Mining Re-sources, University of Felix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, Abidjan-Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
1 Geology of Basement and Metallogeny Laboratory (GBML), Training and Research Unit of Earth Sciences and Mining Re-sources, University of Felix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, Abidjan-Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
2 Geology of Basement and Metallogeny Laboratory (GBML), Training and Research Unit of Earth Sciences and Mining Re-sources, University of Felix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, Abidjan-Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
3 Geology of Basement and Metallogeny Laboratory (GBML), Training and Research Unit of Earth Sciences and Mining Re-sources, University of Felix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, Abidjan-Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
4 Geology of Basement and Metallogeny Laboratory (GBML), Training and Research Unit of Earth Sciences and Mining Re-sources, University of Felix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, Abidjan-Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
Located in the southwestern of the Oume-Fettekro greenstone belt, the Agbahou gold deposit is controlled by structural factors. Geophysics, teledetection and core data suggest the presence of NE and NW faults. However, the NE-faults define two major shear zones (ATZ: Agbahou Tectonic Zone and WTZ: West Tectonic Zone) that control the Agbahou gold mineralization. These first order structures are subparallel to the regional tectonic grain mostly north-east oriented. They seem to respectively develop on the both arms (eastern and western) of an anticline moderately plunging ~25 ° towards northeast. Each shear-zone contains several second-order shear-zones or lenses of variable direction and of 50 ° - 80 ° dip. NW-faults however correspond to strike-slip faults and their development should be related to transcurrent tectonics. They acted as control channels on the distribution of gold mineralizations. The ductile-brittle character of shear-zones favored the ascent of hydrothermal fluids and the formation of multiple auriferous quartz veins: veins Type IIa and veins Type IIb relating respectively to the shear-veins and extensional veins. However, Agbahou also shows the existence of a disseminated sulphides-bearing mineralization within host-rocks. At Agbahou, the precipitation of gold probably occurred in a post to late ductile-brittle deformation period.
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