METALLOGENIC POTENTIAL EVALUATION OF PAN-AFRICAN GRANITOIDS FROM BAFOUSSAM (WEST- CAMEROON): INSIGHTS FROM GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH

Bafoussam granitoids, cropout located in western Cameroon, on the N50E branch of the Central Cameroon Shear Zone. The main aim of this study is to identify its metallogenic potential based on petrographic and geochemical data. Petrographic data include K-feldspar megacryst granites,two-mica granites,biotite granites, amphibolites and mylonites. The evaluation of the mineralization potential reveals that these granitoids plot in oxidized fields, overlapping the specialized and non-specializ ed fields; thus indicating that they are not entirely barren. They tend to fall between the specialized and non-specialized granitoid fields, showing that they are not all fertiles.From a metallogenic point of view, histograms and box-plots of geochemical data of the Bafoussam granito ids, enrichment Mn, Ta, Mg, Ca, Mo, Ti, Fe, Na, Sc, V, Ni, Rb, Sn, Ba et Yb whose average abundance are higher than those of the crust. These granitoids exhibits significant potential for Ba, Sn, Mo, Rb and REE mineralization.