Education

[Bsc, MPhil (Ghana)PhD(Toulouse)]

Research Interest

1.Birimian metallogeny and Geology 

2.Basin-Basement architecture and metallogeny of the Voltaian

3.Spatial mathematics and Geostatistics predictive models (in groundwater, mineral prospectivity and geohazards)

4. Air quality

5. Critical minerals

6. Sustainability Geoscience in solving humanitarian needs

Publications

• Amponsah, P. O., & Forson, E. D. (2024). Mineral Prospectivity Modeling over Julie Tenement of Northwestern Ghana using Geophysical Datasets. Journal of Mining and Environment, 15(3), 791-816.
• Forson, E. D., Dzikunoo, E. A., Amponsah, P. O., Menyeh, A., Nunoo, S., & Amponsah, T. Y. (2024). Groundwater potential modeling over the eastern part of Ghana’s Northern Region using evidence belief functions and weight of evidence. Earth Science Informatics, 1-17.
• Forson, E. D., Amponsah, P. O., Wemegah, D. D., & Ahwireng, M. D. (2024). Random forest-based mineral prospectivity modelling over the Southern Kibi–Winneba belt of Ghana using geophysical and remote sensing techniques. Applied Earth Science, 133(1), 30-45.
• Adams, J.S., Van Lichtervelde, M., Amponsah, P.O., Nude, P.M., Asiedu, D.K., Dampare, S.B. (2023). Characterisation and rare-metal potential of the Winneba-Mankoadze pegmatites, southern Ghana: Evidence of two pegmatite fields. Journal of African Earth Science, 207(2023), 105049.
• Atanga, F., Amponsah, P.O., Nunoo, S., Kwayisi, D., Forson, E.D., Akabzaa, T. M., & Nude, P.M. (2023). The geology and geochemistry of the Rhyacian Josephine gold deposit, Northwest Ghana, Applied Earth Science, DOI: 10.1080/25726838.2023.2260583
• Forson, E. D., & Amponsah, P. O. (2023). Mineral prospectivity mapping over the Gomoa area of Ghana's southern Kibi-Winneba belt using support vector machine and naive bayes. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 105024.
• Amponsah, P.O. & Forson, E.D. (2023). Geospatial modelling of mineral potential zones using data-driven based weighting factor and statistical index techniques. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 206, 105020
• Amponsah, P. O., Kwayisi, D., Awunyo, E. K., Sapah, M. S., Sakyi, P. A., Su, B. X., Lu, Y. & Nude, P. M (2023). New evidence for crustal reworking and juvenile arc‐magmatism during the Palaeoproterozoic Eburnean events in the Suhum Basin, South‐east Ghana. Geological Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4790
• Adissin Glodji, L., Bascou, J., Paquette, J. L., Yessoufou, S., Ménot, R. P., & Amponsah, P. O. (2023). Geochronology and geochemistry of igneous rocks of the Dassa region, Central-Benin: evidence of an Ediacaran emplacement of alkali-calcic and alkaline plutonic and volcanic magmas. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 1-30.
• Amponsah, P. O., Forson, E. D., Sungzie, P. S., & Loh, Y. S. A. (2023). Groundwater prospectivity modeling over the Akatsi Districts in the Volta Region of Ghana using the frequency ratio technique. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 9(1), 937-955.
• Forson, E. D., Amponsah, P. O., Hagan, G. B., & Sapah, M. S. (2023). Frequency ratio-based flood vulnerability modeling over the greater Accra Region of Ghana. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 9(2), 2081-2100.
• Masurel, Q., Eglinger, A., Thébaud, N., Allibone, A., André-Mayer, A. S., McFarlane, H., Miller, J., Jessell, M., Ailleres, L., Vanderhaeghe, O., Salvi, S., Baratoux, L., Perrouty, S., Begg, G., Fougerouse, D., Hayman, P., Wane, O., Tshibubudze, A., Parra-Avila, L., Kouamelan, A., Amponsah, P. O. (2022). Paleoproterozoic gold events in the southern West African Craton: Review and synopsis. Mineralium Deposita, 57(4), 513–537.
• Antonio, P. Y. J., Baratoux, L., Trindade, R. I. F., Rousse, S., Ayite, A., Lana, C., Macouin, M., Adu, E.W.K., Sanchez, C., Silva, M.A.L., Firmin,A-S., Dopico, C.I.M., Proeitti, A., Amponsah, P.O., & Sakyi, P. A. (2021). West Africa in Rodinia: High quality paleomagnetic pole from the~ 860 Ma Manso dyke swarm (Ghana). Gondwana Research, 94, 28-43.
• Sapah, M. S., Agbetsoamedo, J. E., Amponsah, P. O., Dampare, S. B., & Asiedu, D. K. (2021). Neodymium isotope composition of Palaeoproterozoic Birimian shales from the Wa‐Lawra Belt, north‐west Ghana: Constraints on provenance. Geological Journal, 56(4), 2072-2081.
• Feng, X., Wang, E., Amponsah, P. O., Ganne, J., Martin, R., & Jessell, M. W. (2019). Effect of pre-existing faults on the distribution of lower crust exhumation under extension: numerical modelling and implications for NW Ghana. Geosciences Journal, 23, 961-975.
• Asiedu, D. K., Agoe, M., Amponsah, P. O., Nude, P. M., & Anani, C. Y. (2019). Geochemical constraints on provenance and source area weathering of metasedimentary rocks from the Paleoproterozoic (~ 2.1 Ga) Wa-Lawra Belt, southeastern margin of the West African Craton. Geodinamica Acta, 31(1), 27-39.
• 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 suites of Gabbro in the Buem structural unit, in the Pan-African Dahomeyide orogen, south western Ghana; constrains from new field ad geochemical data. Journal of African Earth Science, 129, 45-55. doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.12.018
• Famara, D., Ndiaye, P.M., Diene, M., Amponsah, P.O., Ganne, J (2017). Structural Evolution of the Dialé-Dalema basin, Kedougou-Kenieba inlier, Eastern Senegal. Journal of African Earth Science. 129, 923-933. doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.02.033
• Feng, X., Wang, E., Amponsah, P., Martin, R., (2018). Role of Volcano-Sedimentary Basins in the Formation of Greenstone-Granitoid Belts in the West African Craton: A Numerical Model. Minerals, 8 (2), 73. doi.org/10.3390/min8020073