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Article Dans Une Revue African Journal of Health Sciences Année : 2006

Preliminary geological study and physicochemical characteristics of talc of Boumnyebel (Centre-Cameroon)

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Two talc schist occurrences were discovered in the Boumnyebel area, embedded in the Pan-African mica schist, at the junction between Archean, Eburnean and Neoproterozoic formations in Cameroon. They have been analysed by different techniques such as chemical analyses, XRD, DRIFTS, DTA and TG. The talc schist of the northern deposit contains talc (up to 95 wt %) with chlorite, goethite and lepidocrocite as minor minerals. The talc schist of the southern deposit has up to 88 % of talc and is speckled with dark green phenoblasts of amphiboles (coexisting prismatic tremolite and magnesio-riebeckite). Due to its high talc content, the amphibole-free talc schist is economically attractive. Chemical analyses show that most of the rocks consist of SiO2, MgO and Fe2O3, except the sample from the southern deposit that displays some amounts of Al2O3 and CaO. Among trace elements, Ni, Co and Cr are as high as in serpentinized peridotites, and suggest a protolith of ultrabasic nature. Chromium concentration in tremolite reaches 6178 ppm; most of the trace elements (Cd, Cr, Dy, Er, Eu, Ga, Gd, Ho, Lu, Nd, Pr, Sm, Sn, Sr, Tb, Tm, Y, Yb, Zr) are compatible with a tremolite lattice. The regional metamorphism yielded garnet micaschist nappes and thus belongs to the upper greenschist facies. Based on the high talc contents of the rocks and occasional coexisting tremolite and
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hal-00089812 , version 1 (23-08-2006)

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Charles Nkoumbou, Daniel Njopwouo, Frédéric Villiéras, A. Njoya, C. Yonta Ngouné, et al.. Preliminary geological study and physicochemical characteristics of talc of Boumnyebel (Centre-Cameroon). African Journal of Health Sciences, 2006, 45, pp.61-73. ⟨10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2006.01.007⟩. ⟨hal-00089812⟩
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