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Location: 12 km SE from Zouan-Hounien, Cote d'Ivoire
Route du Lycée TechniqueAbidjanCote d'Ivoire08 BP 872
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The Endeavour Mining, indirectly through its subsidiaries, hold an 85% stake in SMI and SMD and a 90% stake in SMF. The remaining interest in SMI and SMD is held as follows: 5% by SODEMI, the State-owned mining company, and 10% by the Government of Côte d'Ivoire ('GoCI'). The remaining interest of 10% in SMF is held by the GoCI.
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The Ity gold district is located in a Lower Proterozoic-Birimian-domain (named the Ity-Touleupleu) wedged within the Archean Kenema-Man domain, that forms the southern half of the larger West African Craton. The Ity Touleupleu domains forms a northeast-southwest-trending greenstone belt, approximately 100 km long and up to 15 km wide. This belt has been formed, deformed and metamorphosed during the Eburnean orogenic cycle. The Birimian formations comprise meta-sedimentary series (pelites, gresopelites and carbonates) and meta volcanosediments (ranging from basic to acidic in composition), intruded by a series of granodioritic and dioritic bodies. These formations have been subjected to greenschist to lower amphibolite facies regional metamorphism. Skarns are developed along the contact between carbonate formations and granodioritic intrusive rocks. A thick lateritic profile is developed above the bedrock.Mineralisation at Ity occurs in different geological settings, that can be grouped into at least two main types, namely: • Skarns-hosted mineralisation, developed as lenses within meta-carbonates proximal to felsic and mafic intrusions. • Shear zones-related mineralisation, associated to moderately to steeply dipping structures impacting different lithologies including metasediments, volcanosediments, felsic volcanites (daaplite), and intrusive rocks (granodiorite and diorite). Deposits discovered to date in the Ity gold district display either one or both types. The district likely had a polyphase history, resulting from the superimposition of different types of mineralisation in time and space during the Eburnean orogeny (from magmatic accretion stages to late-collisional events). Gold has latterly been variably remobilised through weathering that has impacted the majority of the Ity deposits. The deposits mainly hosted in skarns, which are distributed immediately around a core granodiorite-diorite complex (called the ‘Ity complex’), include; Mont Ity/Ity flat, Walter/Bakatouo, Bakatouo NW, Zia NE, West Flotouo/Flotouo Extension.The deposits related to shear zones include; Le Plaque and Yopleu-Legaleu, and Gbéitouo and Daapleu. The mixed deposits showing both skarn-hosted and shear-related mineralisation in metasediments and volcanosediments in the vicinity of the Ity granodiorite-diorite complex are; Flotouo Extension, Verse Est and Colline Sud.The Teckraie and Verse Ouest deposits are rock dumps of the now depleted Flotouo open pit and sit on top of weathered granodiorite. Aires consists of the decommissioned heap leach pads from the historical operation of the mine.
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