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Liberia has some of the largest iron ore reserves in Africa, with iron content of 30% to 67%, in banded iron formations from the Precambrian. The high grade ores, with more than 60% are primarily hematite, while lower grade ores with 30 to 40% iron are generally magnetite. Liberia also has medium-grade deposits of mixed hematite and magnetite.
The total length of Liberia's land borders is 1,587 kilometers (986 mi): 310 kilometers (190 mi) with Sierra Leone on the northwest, 560 kilometers (350 mi) with Guinea to the north, and 716 kilometers (445 mi) with Ivory Coast. Liberia claims an Exclusive Economic Zone of 249,734 km 2 (96,423 sq mi) and 200 nmi (370 km; 230 mi).
The three major, widely accepted tectonothermal events for the WAC; the 3.5 to 2.9 Ga Pre-Leonean and Leonean Orogeny, the 2.9 to 2.8 Ga Liberian Orogeny, and the 2.15-1.8 Ga Eburnean Orogeny. [6] A definitive answer has strong implications on the geodynamic processes controlling the craton stabilization and maturation after the Archean ...
Geology of Liberia This page was last edited on 14 July 2019, at 02:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
A map of Liberia's major rivers and their drainage systems This is a list of rivers in Liberia . This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
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Liberia's populated Pepper Coast is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the sparse inland is forested, later opening to a plateau of drier grasslands. Since 1989, Liberia has been in a state of flux witnessing two civil wars , the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996), and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003), displacing hundreds ...
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