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Location: 257 NE from Nouakchott, Mauritania
1320 Graham Blvd. #132Ville Mount RoyalQuebec, CanadaH3P 3C8
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Aya Gold & Silver Inc. controls 100% of Algold Resources Ltd, which is the 75% owner-operator of Tijirit Gold Project. The remaining 15% interest in the Tijirit Gold Project is owned by the Government of Mauritania and 10% by Wafa Mining & Petroleum.
The Algold’s operating subsidiary is the Société Tijirit Exploitation SA (Tirex S.A.) (formerly known as Société Tijirit Recherché et Exploration SARL), incorporated to operate the Tijirit and East Tijirit licenses.
Tijirit project is located approximately 40 km southeast of the Tasiast gold deposit. The Tijirit mineralized zones are trending to the NNE and are rather sub-parallel to the Tasiast north-trending deposit. The style of gold mineralization varies on the Tijirit project; however, two major types have been identified as unique: Eleonore-type mineralization and BIFs type. On Tijirit, gold mineralization is related to deformation zones affecting the iron formations, various metasedimentary sequences and intermediate and mafic metavolcanic and meta-igneous rocks. Gold is locally visible, mostly as native medium to small grain located in quartz ± carbonate veins and silicified zones within highly schistozed metabasites and locally associated with sulphides and metasediments or with quartz veins and altered zones near meta-igneous rocks. The Tijirit mineralization can be classified according to the following: - Sophie I, II - gold is related to quartz-carbonate-sulfide veining located in altered, sheared and folded zone within or near contacts between BIF (iron formation), metabasic and metasedimentary sequences. - Sophie III - gold is located in the north limb of a regional fold in NE-trending sheared contact between metavolcanics and metasediments.- Lily - gold appear as fine grains located in widespread quartz-carbonate-sulfide veinlets associated to various zones, showing disseminated pyrrhotite and pyrite, alteration and shear and transposition deformation mostly in metasediments, meta-igneous and metabasic NE-trending sequences. - Eleonore1 - medium to fine grained gold is seen in various size quartz-carbonate-sulfide veining associated with shear and alteration zones within or in contact zones between meta-igneous, metasediments and metabasic rocks. - Salma - gold is related to late-tectonic quartz veins locally showing sulfides and host-rock alteration. Gold is concentrated in quartz veins trending north, dipping west and located either at the contact between the metabasite sequences and the granite, 250 or 600 m east of the contact in identical veins or within the metabasite sequence, 1 km west of the contact with similar type of quartz veins. The Salma structure can be followed over a 10-km strike. At present, different types of gold mineralisation have been identified at the Tijirit project. It appears that gold mineralization is not always related to the iron formations but as in Tasiast the presence of iron-rich rocks in the vicinity or lithological density contrasts could have play a structural and/or mechanical role in the precipitation of gold. It is carried through fluid vector circulation resulting in potassic alteration and quartz veins or stockworks or pervasive silica and/or carbonate and sulphide-rich precipitation.
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