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Landform and regolith in the Tenkoto area (Eastern Senegal)

The weathering profile developed on the Birimian rocks of West Africa is, or looks, relatively simple. But its genesis is not. A few years ago, within a research team of IRD, I worked in the Tenkoto area (Senegal), already studied by P. Michel in the 60's and 70's and very adapted to examine the filiation of the ferricrete.
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Cédrick Gineste has 35 years of experience in field mineralogy. An exploration geologist since 1997, his field missions have taken him to more than twenty countries across five continents. He has a naturalistic approach to mineralogy and collects deposits and their parageneses rather than minerals.

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The Mérétrice mine, New-Caledonia

The former lead-zinc-silver mine at Mérétrice was a small operation that was active intermittently between 1884 and 1930 in the far north of New Caledonia.
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The Puech de Leguo quarry, Aveyron

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