Gold in Madagascar

Gold is commonly found throughout the Precambrian basement exposed in the eastern two-thirds of Madagascar, composed of Archean and Proterozoic greenstone belts and metasediment belts. Gold occurs in four main kinds of deposits:- as a diffuse component of the crystalline basement rocks, - in concordant quartz veins within the metamorphic rocks of the Precambrian basement, - in recent discordant veins, - and in recent and ancient alluvial deposits. itial gold mineralisation is probably in relation with the greenstone belt formation, and many have been formed and/or reworked during different metamorphic and magmatic events. It is therefore difficult to obtain an accurate age of the different kinds of deposits.