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Phang, “Regolith Evolution and Geochemical Dispersion in Transported and Residual Regolith-Bronzewing Gold Deposit,” Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, Vol. Roach, Ed., Advances in Regolith, 2003, pp. Munro, “Weathering-Con- trolled Fractionation of Ore and Pathfinder Elements at Cobar, NSW,” In: I. Nude, “Significance of Regolith Mapping and Its Implication for Gold Exploration in Northern Ghana: A Case Study at Tinga and Kunche,” Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment and Analysis, Vol. This data shows that Fe and Mn strongly associated with gold, and alongside Pb, Ag, As and Cu, these elements can be used as pathfinders for gold in the area, with ferruginous zones as targets.Į. It can be inferred from the results that, the occurrence of gold and its associated elements can be linked to both primary dispersion from underlying rocks and secondary processes such as lateritization. There was further indication that, gold concentrations were lower than that of its associations. From hierarchical clustering, gold was also observed to be clustering with lead, copper, arsenic and silver. This had the gold factor being factor 3, having associations of copper, iron, lead and manganese and accounting for 20.903% of the total variance. Factor analysis explained 79.093% of the total variance of the data through three factors. Factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were performed on the analyzed samples. The study focused on seven elements, namely, Au, Fe, Pb, Mn, Ag, As and Cu. The objectives of the study were to define gold relationships with other trace elements to determine possible pathfinder elements for gold from the soil geochemical data. A multivariate statistical analysis was performed on multi-element soil geochemical data from the Koda Hill-Bulenga gold prospects in the Wa-Lawra gold belt, northwest Ghana.

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