The In Ateï gold district is located in the eastern part of the Laouni "LATEA" terrane (acronym of Laouni, Azrou-n-Fad, Tefedeset, Egéré-Aleksod) (central Hoggar, southern Algeria). In fact, during the post-collision period of the Pan-African orogeny (600 and 570 Ma), this microcontinent was partly destabilized until it corresponded to a meta-craton.