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Zamfara State Maru Two old gold mines are most important, and are within the Maru schist belt. Duki Mine is hosted by a shear zone traversing a quartzite-schist series, often exploiting the S1 schistosity planes. The mineralisation apparently made up of gold-quartz veins, was exploited by past miners for over 1km of strike length, leaving behind series of collapsed N-S ...

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