“…Gold is either dispersed in the quar matrix or confined as stringers along foliations in the granites [8][9][10]. The gold grades within the granite alteration halo vary from 2 ppm to 103 ppm [8,9,13,14,35,36]. The granites are subduction-related and 640-620 Ma old [10], similar to those farther afield in the AYD [30,31,34,35,37] and southern Chad [38].…”