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  2. Geology of Ghana - Wikipedia

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    Significant diamond deposits are found in river gravels in the central and eastern part of Ghana, although the country does not have kimberlite pipes where diamonds formed in the geologic past. Awaso, in southwest Ghana hosts a bauxite mine run by the Ghana Bauxite Company. The bauxite formed from the weathering of Paleoproterozoic phyllite.

  3. Geologic record - Wikipedia

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    The geologic record is in no one place entirely complete [1] for where geologic forces one age provide a low-lying region accumulating deposits much like a layer cake, in the next may have uplifted the region, and the same area is instead one that is weathering and being torn down by chemistry, wind, temperature, and water.

  4. Orogenic gold deposit - Wikipedia

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    The Oubasi orogenic gold deposit in Southern Ghana is host to mineral resources of over 70 Moz Au at a grade of 7.39g/t or higher, with a past production of 32 Moz Au. [9] The deposit is located in the Birimian orogen, where gold mining is known to have taken place back to the 17th century, but modern industrial-scale mining began in 1897 by ...

  5. Geologic time scale - Wikipedia

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    The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the process of relating strata to time) and geochronology (a scientific branch of geology that aims to determine the age of rocks).

  6. Auction sets world record for jewelry, sapphire nets ... - AOL

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    (Reuters) - A Swiss auction has set a new world record for jewelry sales, Christie's said on Wednesday, led by a Ceylon sapphire known as the "Blue Belle of Asia" which alone sold for an ...

  7. Birimian - Wikipedia

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    Geologic map of the Tarkwa gold district in Ghana showing significant folding and faulting of the Birimian Geologic map of Birimian outcrops in Mali, at Bougouni and Kenieba. The Birimian rocks are major sources of gold and diamonds that extend through Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso.

  8. Geological history of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The geologic record of the Proterozoic (33]) is more complete than that for the preceding Archean. In contrast to the deep-water deposits of the Archean, the Proterozoic features many strata that were laid down in extensive shallow epicontinental seas ; furthermore, many of these rocks are less metamorphosed than Archean-age ones, and plenty ...

  9. Timeline of natural history - Wikipedia

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    The geologic record is the strata (layers) of rock in the planet's crust and the science of geology is much concerned with the age and origin of all rocks to determine the history and formation of Earth and to understand the forces that have acted upon it.

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