Gold Mineralisation in Eastern Mahakoshal Belt of Central India: A Reappraisal Based on Mineral System
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Geological Survey of India, Lucknow, 226 024
P. S. Misra -
Geological Survey of India, Lucknow, 226 024
V. Singh
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Geological Survey of India, Lucknow, 226 024
U. Tripathi
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Geological Survey of India, Lucknow, 226 024
S. Ahmed
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Geological Survey of India, Ranchi, 834 002
G. Bage
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Geological Survey of India, Lucknow, 226 024
C. B. Tiwari
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Geological Survey of India, Lucknow - 226 024
S. K. Saha
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Gold exploration in the Mahakoshal belt has been carried out for the past thirty years and mostly quartz veins were identified as the host targets. The recent study based on the concept of mineral system has indicated that gold occurs in mafic and ultramafic rocks also, besides the quartz veins. The mineralisation in Agori Formation is generally confined to Algoma type BIF, metavolcanics and phyllites, while in Parsoi Formation it occurs predominantly in quartz veins. The metavolcanics have acted as source rocks and the crustal deep faults have acted as conduits for mineralizing fluids, in the continental back arc type tectonic setting with two mineral systems viz. (i) basin related fluid flow with active magmatism, and (ii) magmatic related hydrothermal system.
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