Mine detail: Akjoujt

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 19.50029, -14.58184

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold, Silver
Other material: Atacamite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Cuprite, Dioptase, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite, Malachite, Pyrrhotite, Tenorite
Discovery year: 1946

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1970

Geology

References

MAS7410000001
DEP10232179
Reference{Deposit:: E/MJ INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING 1975, P 243}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, SEPT 1976, TABLE B-1126 MINES ACCOUNTING FO}{Deposit:: F ALL OUTPUT OTHER THAN COAL}{Deposit:: BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1970-1976.}{Deposit:: PLAN MINERAL DE LA REPUBLIGUE ISLAMIQUE DE MAURITANIE. 1978.}{Deposit:: DIRECTOR DES MINES ET DE LA GEOLOGIE. REPUBLIQUE}{Deposit:: ISLAMIQUE DE MAURITANIE, PP. 295-305.}{Deposit:: METALS ECONOMICS GROUP, STRATEGIC REPORT: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER}{Deposit:: 1988, P.30.}{Deposit:: INTERMATIONAL MINING, 8-86, P 75.}{Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, 2-27-87, P 154.}{Deposit:: STATE DEPT. TELEGRAM, 4-90,(9921)}{Reserve-Resource:: MINING JOURNAL, 10-17-86, P 290.}{Reserve-Resource:: METALS ECONOMICS GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT, P. 30 (SEPT.-}{Reserve-Resource:: OCT. 1988).}{Reserve-Resource:: INTERNATIONAL MINING, P. 75 (AUG. 1986).}{Reserve-Resource:: GOLD GAZETTE, V 3/N 94, 4/10/95, P.18.}
ReporterPorter, Kenneth E.