Second Projet de Renforcement Institutionnel du Secteur Minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II) Phase V
Open-File Report
2013-1280
Prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Chapter A--Synthesis of Geological, Structural, and Geochronologic Data
(243 MB)
Bradley, D.C., O’Sullivan, Paul, Cosca, M.A., Motts, H.A., Horton, J.D., Taylor, C.D., Beaudoin, Georges, Lee, G.K., Ramezani, Jahan, Bradley, D.B., Jones, J.V., and Bowring, Samuel, 2015, Synthesis of geological, structural, and geochronologic data (phase V, deliverable 53), chap. A of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013–1280-A, 328 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter A1--Geologic Map of Mauritania
(502 MB)
Bradley, D.C., Motts, H.A., Horton, J.D., Giles, Stuart, and Taylor, C.D., 2015, Geologic map of Mauritania (phase V, deliverables 51a, 51b, and 51c), chap. A1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-A1, 3 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter A2--Structure Map of Mauritania
(306 MB)
Bradley, D.C., Horton, J.D., Motts, H.A., and Taylor, C.D., 2015, Structure map of Mauritania (phase V, deliverables 52a and 52b), chap. A2 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-A2, 2 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter B1--Crystalline Basement Map of Mauritania Derived from Filtered Aeromagnetic Data, Aeromagnetic and Geological Structure Map of Mauritania, Maximum Depth to Basement Map of Mauritania Derived from Euler Analysis of Aeromagnetic Data, and Color Composite Image of Radioelement Data
(3.09 GB)
Finn, C.A., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Crystalline basement map of Mauritania derived from filtered aeromagnetic data (phase V, deliverable 54_1), Aeromagnetic and geological structure map of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 54_2), Maximum depth to basement map of Mauritania derived from Euler analysis of Aeromagnetic data (phase V, deliverable 54_3), and color composite image of radioelement data (added value), chap. B1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-B1, 4 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter B--Synthesis of Geophysical Data
(19.1 MB)
Finn, C.A., and Anderson, E.D., 2015, Synthesis of geophysical data (phase V, deliverable 55), chap. B of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-B, 60 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter C--Hydrogeologic Map of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Synthesis of Hydrologic Data, and Chemical Hydrologic Map of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
(2.84 MB)
Friedel, M.J., Finn, C.A., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Hydrogeologic map of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 56), Synthesis of hydrologic data (deliverable 57), and chemical hydrologic map of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (added value), chap. C of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-C, 23 p., 2 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter D1--Geochemistry Areas and Sample Sites, and Multielement and Single Element Geochemistry Maps of Mauritania
(5.22 GB)
Giles, S.A., and Eppinger, R.G., 2015, Geochemistry areas and sample sites, and multielement and single element geochemistry maps of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 58), chap. D1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-D1, 321 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter D--Database Creation, Data Quality Assessment, and Geochemical Maps
(1.42 MB)
Eppinger, R.G., Giles, S.A., Lee, G.K., and Smith, S.M., 2015, Database creation, data quality assessment, and geochemical maps (phase V, deliverable 59)—Final report on compilation and validation of geochemical data, chap. D of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-D, 52 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter E--Landsat Maps, ASTER Maps, ASTER_DEM Maps, and Spectral Remote Sensing in Support of PRISM-II Mineral Resource Assessment Project, Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Rockwell, B.W., Knepper, D.H., Jr., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Landsat maps (phase V, deliverable 60), ASTER maps (phase V, deliverable 62), ASTER_DEM maps (phase V, deliverable 63), and spectral remote sensing in support of PRISM-II mineral resource assessment project, Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverables 61 and 64), chap. E of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-E, 85 p., 85 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter F--Countrywide Digital Elevation Models for the Islamic Republic of Mauritania—SRTM and ASTER
(2.39 MB)
Lee, G.K., 2015, Countrywide Digital Elevation Models for the Islamic Republic of Mauritania—SRTM and ASTER (phase V, deliverable 65), chap. F of Taylor, C.D., ed.,Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-F, 7 p., 2 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter G1--Permissive Tracts for Nickel, Copper, Platinum Group Elements (PGE), and Chromium Deposits of Mauritania
(4.84 MB)
Taylor, C.D., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for nickel, copper, platinum group elements (PGE), and chromium deposits of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 66), chap. G1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-G1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter G--Mineral Potential for Nickel, Copper, Platinum Group Elements (PGE), and Chromium Deposits Hosted in Ultramafic Rocks in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Taylor, C. D., Marsh, E. E., and Anderson, E. D., 2015, Mineral potential for nickel, copper, platinum group elements (PGE), and chromium deposits hosted in ultramafic rocks in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 67), chap. G of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-G, 85 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter H1--Mineral Potential Tracts for Orogenic, Carlin-like, and Epithermal Gold Deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
(7.62 MB)
Goldfarb, R.J., Marsh, E.E., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Mineral potential tracts for orogenic, Carlin-like, and epithermal gold deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, (phase V, deliverable 68), chap. H1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-H1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter H--Mineral Potential Tracts for Orogenic, Carlin-Like, and Epithermal Gold Deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
(2.92 MB)
Goldfarb, R.J., Marsh, E.E., Anderson, E.D., Horton, J.D., Finn, C.A., and Beaudoin, Georges, 2015, Mineral potential tracts for orogenic, Carlin-like, and epithermal gold deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, (phase V, deliverable 69), chap. H of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-H, 19 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter I1--Permissive Tracts for Orogenic and Epithermal Gold Deposits in Mauritania
(2.18 MB)
Beaudoin, Georges, and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for orogenic and epithermal gold deposits in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 70), chap. I1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-I1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter I--Mineral Potential Tracts for Polymetallic Pb-Zn-Cu Vein Deposits
(3.65 MB)
Beaudoin, Georges, 2015, Mineral potential tracts for polymetallic Pb-Zn-Cu vein deposits (phase V, deliverable 71), chap. I of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-I, 10 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter J1--Permissive Tracts for Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc-Silver Deposits in Mauritania
(3.98 MB)
Mauk, J.L., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for sediment-hosted lead-zinc-silver deposits in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 72), chap. J1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-J1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter J--Permissive Tracts for Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc-Silver Deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
(1.69 MB)
Mauk, J.L., 2015, Permissive tracts for sediment-hosted lead-zinc-silver deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 73), chap. J of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-J, 13 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter K1--Permissive Tracts for Sediment-Hosted Copper Deposits in Mauritania
(3.31 MB)
Taylor, C.D., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for sediment-hosted copper deposits in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 74), chap. K1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-K1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter K--Mineral Potential for Sediment-Hosted Copper Deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
(19.3 MB)
Taylor, C.D., and Giles, S.A., 2015, Mineral potential for sediment-hosted copper deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 75), chap. K of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-K, 49 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter L1--Permissive Tracts for Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits in Mauritania
(2.46 MB)
Taylor, C.D., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 76), chap. L1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-L1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French]
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Chapter L--Mineral Potential for Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
(31.8 MB)
Taylor, C.D., and Giles, S.A., 2015, Mineral potential for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, (phase V, deliverable 77), chap. L of Taylor, C.D., ed.,Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-L, 70 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter M1--Permissive Tracts for Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits in Mauritania
(3.42 MB)
Fernette, G.L., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for iron oxide copper-gold deposits in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 78 ), chap. M1 of Taylor, C.D., and Lee, G.K., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-M1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter M--Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Fernette, G.L., 2015, Iron oxide copper-gold deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 79), chap. M of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-M, 21 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter N1--Permissive Tracts for Uranium Deposits in Mauritania
(2.43 MB)
Fernette, G.L., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for uranium deposits in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 80), chap. N1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-N, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter N--Uranium in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Fernette, G.L., 2015, Uranium in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 81), chap. N of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-N, 56 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter O1--Permissive Tracts for Algoma-, Superior-, and Oolitic-type Iron Deposits in Mauritania
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Taylor, C.D., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for algoma-, superior-, and oolitic-type iron deposits in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 82), chap. O1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-O1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter O--Algoma-, Superior-, and Oolitic-Type Iron Deposits of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Taylor, C.D., Finn, C.A., Anderson, E.D., Joud, M.Y., Taleb Mohamed, Ahmed, and Horton, J.D., 2015, Algoma-, Superior-, and oolitic-type iron deposits of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 83), chap. O of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-O, 94 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter P1--Permissive Tracts for Shoreline Placer Titanium Deposits in Mauritania
(2.01 MB)
Beaudoin, Georges, and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for shoreline placer titanium deposits in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 84), , chap. P1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-P1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French]
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Chapter P--Mineral Potential Tracts for Shoreline Ti-Zr Placer Deposits
(10.0 MB)
Beaudoin, Georges, 2015, Mineral potential tracts for shoreline Ti-Zr placer deposits (phase V, deliverable 85), chap. P of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-P, 10 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter Q1--Permissive Tracts for Incompatible Element Deposits Hosted in Pegmatities, Alkaline Rocks, and Carbonatities in Mauritania
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Taylor, C.D., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Permissive tracts for incompatible element deposits hosted in pegmatities, alkaline rocks, and carbonatities in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 86), chap. Q1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-Q1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter Q--Mineral Potential for Incompatible Element Deposits Hosted in Pegmatites, Alkaline Rocks, and Carbonatites in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Taylor, C.D., and Giles, S.A., 2015, Mineral potential for incompatible element deposits hosted in pegmatites, alkaline rocks, and carbonatites in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 87), chap. Q of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-Q, 41 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter R1--Reported Industrial Minerals Occurrences and Permissive Areas for Other Occurrences in Mauritania
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Langer, W.H., and Horton, J.D., 2015, Reported industrial minerals occurrences and permissive areas for other occurrences in Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 88), chap. R1 of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-R1, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French]
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Chapter R--Reported Industrial Minerals Occurrences and Permissive Areas for Other Occurrences in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Langer, W.H., 2015, Reported industrial minerals occurrences and permissive areas for other occurrences in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, (phase V, deliverable 89), chap. R of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-R, 23 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter S--Database of Mineral Deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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Marsh, E.E., and Anderson, E.D., 2015, Database of mineral deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverables 90 and 91), chap. S of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-S, 9 p., Access database, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter T--Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II) phase V
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Horton, J.D., 2015, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II) phase V (phase V, deliverable 92), chap. T of Taylor, C.D., ed., Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280-T, GIS database, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
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Chapter A--Synthesis of Geological, Structural, and Geochronologic Data
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- Chapters:
- Chapter M : Iron oxide copper-gold deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverable 79)
- Chapter S : Database of mineral deposits in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (phase V, deliverables 90 and 91)
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Abstract
In 1996, at the request of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a team of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists produced a strategic plan for the acquisition, improvement and modernization of multidisciplinary sets of data to support the growth of the Mauritanian minerals sector and to highlight the geological and mineral exploration potential of the country. In 1999, the Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania implemented a program for the acquisition of the recommended basic geoscientific information, termed the first Projet de Renforcement Institutionnel du Secteur Minier (Project for Institutional Capacity Building in the Mining Sector, PRISM-I). As a result of the PRISM-I efforts, a great deal of new geological, geophysical, geochemical, remote sensing, and hydrological data became available for evaluation and synthesis. However, the Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines recognized that additional work was required to extract the full benefit of the data before it could be of greatest use to the international community and of benefit to the Mauritanian minerals and development sector.
To achieve this benefit, the Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines implemented a second Projet de Renforcement Institutionnel du Secteur Minier (PRISM-II) in 2006 to consolidate, synthesize, and interpret all of the existing data, create a new 1:1,000,000 scale geologic map, and define the mineral resource potential of the country. A consortium in which the USGS was the lead scientific agency carried out the majority of the PRISM-II work. In 2008, the USGS Mauritania Minerals Project was interrupted due to political changes in Mauritania. PRISM-II work resumed in 2011, and was completed in 2013 with the delivery of over 40 separate written reports and plates, an access file containing the Mauritanian National Mineral Deposits Database, and an interactive GIS containing all of the multi-disciplinary data and interpretive areas of mineral resource potential in Mauritania.
This report contains the USGS results of the PRISM-II Mauritania Minerals Project and is presented in cooperation with the Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The Report is composed of separate chapters consisting of multidisciplinary interpretive reports with accompanying plates on the geology, structure, geochronology, geophysics, hydrogeology, geochemistry, remote sensing (Landsat TM and ASTER), and SRTM and ASTER digital elevation models of Mauritania. The syntheses of these multidisciplinary data formed the basis for additional chapters containing interpretive reports on 12 different commodities and deposit types known to occur in Mauritania, accompanied by countrywide mineral resource potential maps of each commodity/deposit type. The commodities and deposit types represented include: (1) Ni, Cu, PGE, and Cr deposits hosted in ultramafic rocks; (2) orogenic, Carlin-like, and epithermal gold deposits; (3) polymetallic Pb-Zn-Cu vein deposits; (4) sediment-hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposits of the SEDEX and Mississippi Valley-type; (5) sediment-hosted copper deposits; ( 6) volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits; (7) iron oxide copper-gold deposits; (8) uranium deposits; (9) Algoma-, Superior-, and oolitic-type iron deposits; (10) shoreline Ti-Zr placer deposits; (11) incompatible element deposits hosted in pegmatites, alkaline rocks, and carbonatites, and; (12) industrial mineral deposits. Additional chapters include the Mauritanian National Mineral Deposits Database are accompanied by an explanatory text and the Mauritania Minerals Project GIS that contains all of the interpretive layers created by USGS scientists. Raw data not in the public domain may be obtained from the Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
Suggested Citation
Taylor, C.D., ed., 2015, Second projet de renforcement institutionnel du secteur minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II) phase V: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013‒1280, 20 chaps., pages variable, pls. variable, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131280. [In English and French.]
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
Study Area
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Second Projet de Renforcement Institutionnel du Secteur Minier de la République Islamique de Mauritanie (PRISM-II) Phase V |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2013-1280 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr20131280 |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English, French |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center |
| Description | Report: 20 Chapters; Readme; GIS and Maps; Publication Index |
| Country | Islamic Republic of Mauritania |
| Online Only (Y/N) | Y |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | Y |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |