The late Archean-Paleoproterozoic Sonakhan schist belt occurs within the Raipur District of Chhattisgarh and forms north-eastern part of the Central Indian Craton (CIC)/ Bastar block of Central India.The NW-SE trending Sonakhan schist belt forms a broad synformal basin with steep dipping NNW-SSE trending axial surfaces.The volcano-sedimentary associations in this area contain a complete greenstone sequence consisting of mafic volcanic rocks, felsic volcanic rocks, Banded Iron Formation (BIF).Gold mineralization is associated with volcano-sedimentary sequence in the form of auriferous veins...