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Camp size, mine location and contacts. Contractors - subscription is required. Gold mineralisation is hosted mainly by granodiorite, with some mineralisation extending into the surrounding metasediments. The Sukari granodiorite strikes north-northeast and typically dips between 50° and 75° to the east. The granodiorite has a strike length of approximately 2.
Gold mineralisation within is not homogenous and its deposition has been influenced by major long-lived structures that experienced continuous reactivation. Mineralised Zones Gold mineralisation at Sukari is hosted mainly by granodiorite and to some extent in metasediments. Geochemical whole rock analysis confirmed the Sukari intrusion is a granodiorite A-type granite high in silica, zirconium, niobium, gallium, yttrium and cerium.
The intrusion is a mid-crust melt which has been strongly fractionated to plagioclase and magnetite.
Magmas that fractionate magnetite are generally sulphide saturated, and therefore depleted in gold, however the Sukari granodiorite is superoxidised i. Gold mineralisation sits within the magnetite fractionated portion of the granodiorite.
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The whole rock geochemical data was combined with ASD mineralogical data to show that gold is spatially associated with muscovite while chlorite and phengite are distal. The geochemical pathfinders defined are sulphur and arsenic to gold, copper and nickel show the extents of the granodiorite, while antimony shows a high on the granodiorite margins, where molybdenum and bismuth are low.
The Sukari host is an oxidized granodiorite, confirmed by its pyrite-hematite-magnetite-anhydrite mineralogy. However, the very high arsenic within the orebody is evidence of a very strong reduction process. The ammonia detected in the ASD work further supports this interpretation. Therefore, gold bearing fluids are considered to have been sourced from the magma and the surrounding carbonaceous sediments.
The Sukari granodiorite represented a favourable host because of its composition relative to mineralising fluids, and its mechanical properties. Evidence includes that granodiorite dykes in the hangingwall of the main granodiorite body show gold mineralisation of essentially the same character as that in the main granodiorite, and wall rocks immediately adjacent to those dykes are barren.
The dykes range in thickness from a few centimetres to several metres. Structural observations indicate that the Sukari granodiorite acted as a rigid body surrounded by weaker rocks.
Sukari Complex
Footwall and hanging wall rocks have taken up strain by development of strong schistosity, likely accompanied by large decreases in volume. The granodiorite has taken up strain by development of predominantly brittle fault structures. Geometry The granodiorite host for the mineralisation has a strike length of approximately 2. Gold mineralisation within this is not continuous and its deposition has been influenced by major long-lived structures, the most important of which are tabular sheets of crackle breccia, the principal ones being the high-grade Main Reef and Hapi Reef Amun Zone.
Figure 7. Vein Geometry Quartz veins and veinlets are commonly found intruding the granodiorite and the metavolcanosedimentary association constituting a fissure-filling system. The thickness of the quartz veinlets varies between few millimetres up to m. The main vein strikes 20—30° NE and dips 25— 50° SE. It attains a thickness of 2. In NE-SW directions, the mineralised zones are located along shear fractures paralleling the contact between the metavolcano-sedimentary country rocks and granodiorite.
It is composed of the main NE auriferous quartz veins, accompanied by a series of subparallel contiguous veinlets and offshoots forming a vein system zone. The most conspicuous feature of the Sukari mineralised granodiorite is the intensive hydrothermal alteration of the country rocks on both sides of the mineralised veins. Brecciated veins consist of brecciated vein quartz and granodiorite rock fragments or granodiorite fragments in a matrix of vein quartz ±sulphides ±hematite.
Shear veins appear to be rare, whilst extensional veins are distinguished by their short strike lengths and normally form stacked arrays between thin linking shears. The orientation of the shears, not the extensional veins, indicates the large-scale direction of continuity of a stacked vein array that are commonly arranged en-echelon. Sulphide Development Gold mineralisation at Sukari is intimately related to sulphides; pyrite is the most abundant sulphide, followed by arsenopyrite.