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Prince Ofori Amponsah

Prince Ofori Amponsah
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
pamponsah@ug.edu.gh

 

Dr. Prince Ofori Amponsah is a structural geologist and a metallogenist, with special interest in hydrothermal ore deposits. Prince hold a BSc (Hons), MPhil degrees in Geology from the University of Ghana and a PhD degree from the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III).

Prince is part of the West African Exploration Initiative (WAXI), a research and training program financed by the mining Industries particularly in West Africa, under the management of AMIRA International. This broad spectrum of research, focuses mainly on the mineral potential (in terms of prospectivity and exploitation) of the greenstone belts and basins of the West African Craton.

Prince has worth of industrial experience, spanning from grass root exploration to large scale drill-outs and the writing of technical and competent person’s reports in both the metallic and industrial mineral industry. He has worked with Azumah resources Limited; SMGlobal Sarl (Burkina Faso) where he consulted to various companies such as Volta Mining and Riedel Resources and KAM Associates on the Forecariah Iron ore deposit in Guinea. He is a member of the Geological Society of Africa, Tectask (IUGS), American Association of Petroleum Geologist and the Society of Exploration Geophysicist.

 

Research Interest

·         Understanding the formation, structural and alteration controls on hydrothermal gold deposits in West Africa

·         Fluid inclusion studies on mineralizing systems in the West African Craton

·         Structural and geochemical analysis of the Pan-African belt in Ghana

·         Industrial mineral exploration in Ghana

 

Selected Recent Publications                                                                                                    

  • Jessell, M. W., Amponsah, P. O., Baratoux, L., Asiedu, D. K., Loh, G. K., Ganne, J., 2012. Crustal-scale transcurrent shearing in the Paleoproterozoic Sefwi-Sunyani-Comoé region, West Africa. Precambrian Research 212-213, 155-168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2012.04.015.
  • Amponsah, P. O., Salvi, S., Béziat, D., Jessell, M., Siebenaller, L., Baratoux, L., 2015. Geology and geochemistry of shear hosted Julie gold deposit, NW Ghana. Journal of African Earth Science, 112, 505-523. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.06.013.
  • Amponsah, P. O., Salvi, S., Béziat, D., Baratoux, L., Siebenaller, L., Nude, P.M., Nyarko, R.S., Jessell, M., 2016. The Bepkong gold deposit, Northwestern Ghana. Ore geology reviews, 78, 718-723. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.06.022.
  • Salvi, S., Amponsah, P. O., Siebenaller, L., Béziat, D., Baratoux, L., Jessell, M., 2016. The Shear related gold mineralization in NW Ghana: Julie deposit. Ore Geology Reviews, 78, 712-717. doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.08.008. 
  • Feng, X., Amponsah, P. O., Martin, R., Ganne, J., Jessell, M.W., 2016. 3-D numerical modelling of the influence of pre-existing faults and boundary conditions on the distribution of deformation: example of North-Western Ghana. Precambrian Research, 274, 161-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2015.06.006.
  • Feng, X., Jessell, M.W., Amponsah, P.O., Martin, R., Ganne, J., Liu, D., Batt, G.E., 2016. Effects of strain-weakening on the Oligocene-Miocene self-organisation of the Australian-Pacific plate boundary fault in Southern New Zealand: Insights from numerical modelling. Journal of Geodynamics, 100, 130-143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2016.03.002
  • Amponsah, P.O., Salvi, S., Béziat, D. Siebenaller, L., Jessell, M., Nude, P.M., Gyawu, A.E., (2016). Multistage gold mineralization in the Wa-Lawra belt: The Bepkong deposit. Journal of African Earth Science, 120, 220-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.05.005
  • Ben-Awuah, J., Padmanabhan, E., Amponsah, P.O., 2016. Reservoir rock characterization and diagenetic history of Miocene sandstones in the offshore West Baram delta, Sarawak basin, South China Sea. Petroleum and Coal, 58 (4), 414-429.
  • Kwayisi, D., Agra, N.A., Dampare, S.B., Asiedu, D.K., Amponsah, P.O., Nude, P.M. (2017). Two suite of Gabbro in the Buem structural unit, in the Pan-African Dahomeyide orogen, south western Ghana; constrains from new field and geochemical data. Journal of African Earth Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.12.018
  • Amponsah, P.O., Jessell, M.W., Gibson, D.H., 2010. Multiscale structural analysis of the Sunyani basin, Oral presention at the annual meeting of the Canadian tectonic group conference, Penticton-Okanagan, Canada
  • Amponsah, P.O., Jessell, M.W., Gibson, D.H., 2011. Multiscale structural analysis of the Sunyani basin. Poster presented at the 24th Congress of the Geological society of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • Jessell, M., Gallardo, Baratoux, L., Metelka, V., Perrouty, S., Block, S., Amponsah, P.O., Jones, Le Pape, Hogg, Boren, Siebenaller, L., 2013. Craton scale geophysics. Poster presented on the WAXI II conference, Accra, Ghana.