the ARABIAN NUBIAN SHIELD
Here at Sodor Geosciences, we are experts in the ANS.
Sodor Geosciences has extensive experience of working within the countries of the ANS, giving the company a unique insight into the geology and mineral deposits of the region.
Principal Consultant Chris Bargmann has made several conference and webinar presentations on the ANS and its mineral deposits.
Sodor Geosciences is ideally placed to provide technical services and advice to companies who may be already working in the ANS, or those seeking to become involved in this emerging mining region.
This geological terrane covers a large portion of Northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and represents an assemblage of well-preserved subduction-related litho-tectonic blocks, accreted juvenile arc terranes, volcano-sedimentary basins, micro-continental terranes, and syn- to post-tectonic intrusions that formed between 800-600 Ma.
The ANS has demonstrated potential for orogenic gold and VMS deposits whilst subduction related deposits, such as porphyry copper deposits and epithermal gold deposits, are also present.
Get in touch if you require any specialist technical services.
Gold Deposits include:
Sukari, 15.3 Moz Au (Egypt)
Lega Dembe, 2.5 Moz Au (Ethiopia)
Tulu Kapi, 2.0 Moz Au (Ethiopia)
Ad Duwayhi, 2.7 Moz Au (Saudi Arabia)
Galat Safur South, 3.0 Moz Au (Sudan)
VMS Deposits include:
Ariab, 3 Moz Au oxide mined, 10.3 Moz Aueq sulphide resource (Sudan)
Bisha, 0.8 Moz Au oxide mined, 222 Mlb Cu & 1,231 Mlb Zn sulphide resource (Eritrea)
Jebel Sayed, 1252 Mlb Cu (Saudi Arabia)
Porphyry and epithermal deposits include:
Jebel Ohier, 2913 Mlb Cu (Sudan)
Mahd ad Dahab, >2 Moz Au (Saudi Arabia)
The Arabian Nubian Shield – Africa’s next mining destination? – Christopher Bargmann
19 June 2020 GSSA Lunchtime talk with Christopher Bargmann: The Arabian Nubian Shield – Africa’s next mining destination?