Mine detail: Laouni Mine

Previously called 'Le Renaissance'

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Location

Lat / long: 20.46673, 5.5682

Resource(M)

Primary: Tungsten, Tin
Discovery year: 1959

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: None
Development status: Prospect
First production started: 1965

Geology

Host type:Gneiss,Greisen
Structure:Contact Aureole Of Pre-Ordovician Granite Intrusion.
Tectonic:Precambrian Craton (Intracratonic)

References

MRDSDE00331
DEP10021647
Reference{Deposit:: DE KUN, N., 1965, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF AFRICA, NEW YORK, ELSEVIER PUBLISHING CO., P. 478.}{Deposit:: AMBROSIO, S.C., 1982, THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF ALGERIA, PREPRINT FROM THE 1981 UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 9.}{Deposit:: ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES LTD., 1977, THE ECONOMICS OF TUNGSTEN: THIRD EDITION, LONDON, ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES LTD., P. 115.}{Deposit:: STAFF, LE TUNGSTENE, REVOLUTION AFRICAINE, I.C. 637, P. 17.}{Production:: J.P. BONNICI (PERSONAL COMMUNICATION TO W.D. SINCLAIRE, 11/85). PRODUCITON 196*-197*. SOME PRODUCTION IS RUMOURED TO HAVE OCCURRED AFTER ALGERIA BECAME AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.}
ReporterWerner, Antony (Sinclair, W. David)