In the Mangodara area within the Banfora greenstone belts (Baoulé-Mossi domain of the West African Craton), our study focused on geochemical assessment of the mobility of major and trace elements. Gold and base metal occurrences are hosted in highly metamorphic felsic (metarhyolite) and intermediate (metadacite and metaandesite) formations. Common mineral assemblages made up of staurolite -kyanite -pyrophyllite are interpreted to represent the metamorphosed equivalent of aluminous hydrothermal alteration. Associated felsic and intermediate volcanic rocks are enriched in Fe 2 O 3 , K 2 O (metaandesite, metarhyolite) and depleted in MgO, Al 2 O 3 , CaO, P 2 O 5 , Na 2 O (metarhyolite) and Fe 2 O 3 , MgO, CaO (metaandesite). Al 2 O 3 depletion in mineralized kyanite-staurotide bearing metarhyolites suggests corroded minerals. Mineralized metarhyolites show enrichment in