Mineral Resources Potential - Geothermal Resources

100 Mineral Resources Potential of Ethiopia
contain numerous fine-grained magnetite stingers ranging @bin
0.5 to 1.5 cm in thickness, The sqentinite body and talc-chlorite
rock units are often found to contain small seams of chromik,
1 -2m wide. Serpentinization, silicification, sericitimtion, ~hlaritizathn,
actinolization and carbonatiztition are the major alteration
processes that affected the ultramafic body. The Ni-bearing
mineral is garnierite. It has been prospected by 386 holes, &y
in the northern pwt, and the result revealed rewwes of 3.9 Mt
grading 1 28% nickel (EGS, 1989).
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