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Within the West African Craton, there is a large amount of mining activity covering resources such as gold, copper, cobalt, silver, tin, and zinc. [24] Artisanal mining activity in the craton dates back to the early 1960s which used quartz vein debris as a gold indicator. [25]
Approximate extent of Taoudeni basin Major West African sedimentary basins. The Taoudeni Basin is a major Sedimentary basin in West Africa, named after the Taoudenni village in northern Mali. It covers large parts of the West African craton in Mauritania and Mali. It is of considerable interest due to its possible reserves of oil. [1]
West African Craton; East Saharan Meta-craton; Congo Craton, central southern Africa Bangweulu Block, Zambia; Tanzanian Craton; Kalahari Craton. Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa (3.6–2.5 Ga) Zimbabwe Craton (3.5 Ga) Sebakwe Craton
The production of oil and gas is important to Algeria's economy, being Africa's main producer of the latter. Its reserves were estimated at 4.502 trillion m 3 at the end of 2008. Productive fields are found in anticlines, faulted anticlines or domes; the reservoirs being in Cambro-Ordovician, Triassic, Devonian, and Carboniferous sandstones.
Paleoproterozoic rock units belonging to Birimian Supergroup, common across West Africa, dominate northwest and southwest Ghana. The Birimian Supergroup has two units, one a succession of sedimentary rocks including phyllite, tuff and greywacke overlain by conglomerate, sandstone and shale and the other a volcanic tholeiitic magma series.
Geologic map of the Tarkwa gold district in Ghana showing significant folding and faulting. The Man Shield (Leo-Man Shield or Leo-Man Craton) is a geological shield or craton in the southeast portion of the West African Craton.
Libya started exporting oil in 1961 and by 1966 it was the 7th largest oil-producing nation in the world. During 1969, output from the Sirte Basin had even exceeded production from Saudi Arabia (3 Mmbpd). Libya nationalized its oil industry in 1973, and some American oil companies began withdrawing in 1982, following a 1981 US trade embargo. By ...
The Zimbabwe Craton is an area in Southern Africa of ancient continental crust, being a part of the ancient continent of Western Gondwana, with rocks dating back to the early Archean Eon, possibly as early as 3.46 billion years ago . [1] The craton is named after the country of Zimbabwe where the majority of the