Mineral Deposits of North Africa

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Geologic and Metallogenic Framework of North Africa....Pages 3-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Degassing as the Main Ore-Forming Process at the Giant Imiter Ag–Hg Vein Deposit in the Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco....Pages 85-106
The Polymetallic (W–Au and Pb–Zn–Ag) Tighza District (Central Morocco): Ages of Magmatic and Hydrothermal Events....Pages 107-131
The Bou Madine Polymetallic Ore Deposit, Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco: Evolution from Massive Fe–As–Sn to Epithermal Au–Ag–Pb–Zn ± Cu Mineralization in a Neoproterozoic Resurgent Caldera Environment....Pages 133-142
U/Pb Ages of Magmatism in the Zgounder Epithermal Ag–Hg Deposit, Sirwa Window, Anti-Atlas, Morocco....Pages 143-165
Edough-Cap de Fer Polymetallic District, Northeast Algeria: II. Metallogenic Evolution of a Late Miocene Metamorphic Core Complex in the Alpine Maghrebide Belt....Pages 167-199
Skarn to Porphyry-Epithermal Transition in the Ouixane Fe District, Northeast Morocco: Interplay of Meteoric Water and Magmatic-Hydrothermal Fluids....Pages 201-225
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The Bou Azzer Co–Ni–Fe–As(±Au ± Ag) District of Central Anti-Atlas (Morocco): A Long-Lived Late Hercynian to Triassic Magmatic-Hydrothermal to Low-Sulphidation Epithermal System....Pages 229-247
Edough-Cap de Fer Polymetallic District, Northeast Algeria: I. The Late Miocene Paleogeothermal System of Aïn Barbar and Its Cu–Zn–Pb Vein Mineralization....Pages 249-276
Re/Os Age Determination, Lead and Sulphur Isotope Constraints on the Origin of the Bouskour Cu–Pb–Zn Vein-Type Deposit (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco) and Its Relationship to Neoproterozoic Granitic Magmatism....Pages 277-290
Geology, Fluid Inclusions, and Geochemistry of the Aouli Sulphide ± Fluorite ± Barite Vein Deposit (Upper Moulouya District, Morocco) and Its Relationships to Pangean Rifting and Opening of the Tethys and Central Atlantic Oceans....Pages 291-305
Geology and Mineralogy of the El Hammam REE-Rich Fluorite Deposit (Central Morocco): A Product of Transtensional Pangean Rifting and Central Atlantic Opening....Pages 307-324
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A Review of Gold Mineralization in Mali....Pages 327-351
Nature and Geodynamic Setting of Late Neoproterozoic Vein-Type Gold Mineralization in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints....Pages 353-370
The Hoggar Gold and Rare Metals Metallogenic Province of the Pan-African Tuareg Shield (Central Sahara, South Algeria): An Early Cambrian Echo of the Late Ediacaran Murzukian Event?....Pages 371-404
The Granitoid-Related Tiouit Gold Deposit, Saghro Inlier, Eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco): Neoproterozoic Mineralization by a Polyphase Late-Magmatic to Hydrothermal System....Pages 405-414
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Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide–Oxide Gold Deposits of the Nubian Shield in Northeast Africa....Pages 417-435
Geologic, Hydrothermal, and Geochemical Relationships Between Bimodal Magmatism and Massive Sulphide Mineralization in the Central Jebilet-Guemassa Province (Western Moroccan Hercynides)....Pages 437-459
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Geology, Geochemistry, and Current Genetic Models for Major Mississippi Valley-Type Pb–Zn Deposits of Morocco....Pages 463-495
Tectonomagmatic Context of Sedex Pb–Zn and Polymetallic Ore Deposits of the Nappe Zone Northern Tunisia, and Comparisons with MVT Deposits in the Region....Pages 497-525
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The F’derik-Zouérate Iron District: Mesoarchean and Paleoproterozoic Iron Formation of the Tiris Complex, Islamic Republic of Mauritania....Pages 529-573
The High-Grade Imini Manganese District—Karst-Hosted Deposits of Mn Oxides and Oxyhydroxides....Pages 575-594