Secondary gold mineralization in the Amani Placer Gold
#0183;#32;1. Introduction. Placer deposits represent important repositories of the earths crustal gold endowment, and mining of these placer resources continues to contribute significantly to global gold production (, Youngson et al., 2006).For example, Au distributions in the supergiant Witwatersrand quartz pebble conglomerate (QPC) hosted ores are mined following placer models, and this gold