liu.seSearch for publications in DiVA
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • oxford
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Pathfinder elements and indicator minerals of Au from the Kubi Gold ore deposits in Ghana
Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Thin Film Physics. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4841-5681
Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Thin Film Physics. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1956-483X
Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Thin Film Physics. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1785-0864
Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Thin Film Physics. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2837-3656
Show others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Environmental Earth Sciences, ISSN 1866-6280, E-ISSN 1866-6299, Vol. 82, no 16, article id 386Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The Au mineralization in the Kubi Gold Mining Area in the Birimian of Ghana is associated with garnet (about 85 vol.%), magnetite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, and sulfide minerals, as well as quartz with gold and calcite. These minerals and the included elements can act as indicator minerals or pathfinder elements. For the present work, we collected samples from drill holes at different depths, from the alluvial zone (0–45 m) to the ore zone (75–100 m). The distributions of minerals and elements in the rocks that act as indicator minerals and pathfinder elements in the concession area were investigated along the drill hole cross sections. X-ray diffraction shows that the samples contain garnet, pyrite, periclase, and quartz as the main indicator minerals. By energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Fe, Mg, Al, S, O, Mn, Na, Cu, Si, and K are identified as corresponding pathfinder elements. The results indicate that the Au mineralization in the Kubi Mine area correlates mostly with the occurrence of garnet, pyrite, goethite, and kaolinite in the host rocks, which show towards the surface increasingly hematitic and limonitic alteration in form of Fe(oxy-)hydroxides.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2023. Vol. 82, no 16, article id 386
Keywords [en]
Pathfinder element, X-ray, Spectroscopy, Birimian, Gold
National Category
Geology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-196461DOI: 10.1007/s12665-023-11058-zISI: 001041675600003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85167399398OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-196461DiVA, id: diva2:1786002
Funder
Linköpings universitet, Faculty Grant SFO-Mat-LiU no. 2009 00971Carl Tryggers foundation , CTS20:272,CTS16:303, CTS14:310
Note

Funding agencies:Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linköping University (Faculty Grant SFO-Mat-LiU no. 2009 00971).Swedish Energy Research(Grant no. 43606-1)Carl Tryggers Foundation (CTS20:272,CTS16:303, CTS14:310)Open access funding provided by Linköping University

Available from: 2023-08-07 Created: 2023-08-07 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(3700 kB)993 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 3700 kBChecksum SHA-512
d53027c3b5db848790840014923d62522e1c0a4b16f7b6dfdfbba10c1c97ca0eabbb7c09242d53c5bc3ab650954c5ee80632539d7f3ff676f3eb212ea25e9f5d
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Nzulu, Gabriel KofiHögberg, HansEklund, PerHultman, LarsMagnuson, Martin

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Nzulu, Gabriel KofiHögberg, HansEklund, PerHultman, LarsMagnuson, Martin
By organisation
Thin Film PhysicsFaculty of Science & Engineering
In the same journal
Environmental Earth Sciences
Geology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 1002 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 355 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • oxford
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf