Cameroon features numerous artisinal gold workings but modern exploration methods to locate Cameroon’s primary gold potential appear under-utilised. Alluvial gold production is derived purely from elluvial and alluvial workings and no primary deposits have been successfully located.
Work carried out by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) suggests that gold mineralisation is related to the volcano-sedimentary belts characteristic of the Birimian belt in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali.
Aureus Mining has received positive results from its 100% owned Batouri licence located in south-east Cameroon. Exploration at Batouri started in 2006 with a soil sampling programme in the centre of the licence over the Kambele prospect. Further sampling of 122 pits in the Kambele-Dem trend and 50 pits in the Mongonam-Dimako trend has established that gold is predominantly present within quartz veins, with lower grades in altered wall rock.