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Birimian - Wikipedia

The Birimian rocks are major sources of gold and diamonds that extend through Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso. They are named after the Birim River, one of the main tributaries of the Pra River in Ghana and the country's most important diamond-producing area. Ghana and Mali are the second and third largest producers of gold in Africa, respectively.

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Birim River - Wikipedia

The Birim basin is rich in minerals and has been a source of gold for centuries, the basis for the former name of Ghana: the Gold Coast. It is also a major source of diamonds. The Birim river gravels hold gold which has long been extracted through panning or Placer mining, used in making ornaments and for trans-Saharan tr

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Mining industry of Ghana - Wikipedia

Ghana is Africa's largest gold producer, [1] producing 80.5 t in 2008. Ghana is also a major producer of bauxite, manganese and diamonds. Ghana has 20 large-scale mining

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Location map of Ghana with the Birim diamond ®eld

Ghana diamonds occur in stream gravels of the Birim River Valley (Fig. 1), discovered originally in 1919 at Abomoso. The largest mining operation in the Birim diamond ®eld is located in...

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Multiple scales of diamond mining in Akwatia, Ghana: addressing ...

2005.9.1  Diamonds were first discovered along the Birim River, in an area nineteen miles northwest of Akwatia, in 1919 (GCD, 1999). Over 100 million carats of diamonds

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Simplified geological map of Ghana illustrating the

In past decades, diamonds have been extracted from conglomeratic sediments as a by-product of gold mining in this area and from pebble deposits in two tributaries of the

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Multiple scales of diamond mining in Akwatia, Ghana:

2005.9.1  Over 100 million carats of diamonds have been recovered from the area. Ghana Consolidated Diamonds, Ltd (GCD) is the chief producer of diamonds in the

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Impact of artisanal small-scale (gold and diamond) mining

In southern Ghana, streams and rivers including the Offin, Oda and Pra that drain mineralized gold and diamond-bearing areas have reportedly been drastically affected

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Average grade of Birim River diamond deposits by geomorphic

The Birim deposit has yielded 90 per cent of the rough stones mined in Ghana to date, and remains the centrepiece of its diamond production (Chirico et al., 2010; Greenhalgh, 1985).

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