Mauritania: Mauritania Energy Resource Profile 2012
2012/03/19
Mauritania Energy Profile 2012
The electricity capacity has been multiplied by 1.5 since 2007. A 36 MW power plant has been commissioned at Nouakchott in 2010 and 2011 (cost of US $60m), as well as a 22 MW power plant in Nouhadibou in 2011. Total signed in 2011 a contact for the exploration and production of the C9 off-shore bloc.
Overall, Africa boosted world-wide consumption of crude oil. Significant increase in Nigerian crude oil production offset falls in Algeria, Iraq and Venezuela. South-Africa increased its coal trade surplus by 4.5% during the year, while Algerian natural gas output fell another 12%. Africa also registered a 6% increase in power generation.
MINING
- Improving the geological infrastructure
- Availability of varied and reliable data bases (mapping, environmental and geological researches & studies etc.
- Integration of the sector to the economy
- Strengthening institutional capacity
- Mining Safety and Preservation of the Environment pollution
A Mining Heaven
- Gold geothermal (green rocks, shear zones)- BIF, hosting deposits of iron and gold - magmatic sulfide deposits (Ni, Cu, PGE) in the ultra basic complex and komatites - chromate + EGP in the serpentinites .
- Diamonds in kimberlitic and other gems.
- Pegmatite with rare metal (Li, Be, Ta, Nb, Th, U, Sn, W).
- Massive volcanic deposits of sulfide (VHMS) (Cu, Zn, Pb, Au, Ag).
- Deposits of pegmatite.
- Ornamental stone.
- Deposits of Fe-oxide Cu-Au-U, P, TR, Ba, F, Ag, Mo, Co, As and Zn.
- Cu, Th, U, P, F, Cu in the alkaline complex.
- Vein of Au geothermal (the shear zone).
- Pegmatite with rare metal (Li, Be, Ta, Nb, Th, U, Sn, W).
- The veins in relation to the granite, mineralization and skarn replacement (Au, Cu etc.)
- Cu hosted by the sediments (± Co, Ag, Pb, Zn, PGE, Au, U, V).
- Cu, Au, Ni, Cr ± in the amphibolites complex and serpentinites .
- Ni Co- in literate.
- Stratiform base metals (VHMS or Sedex) (Cu, Pb, Zn, Au, Ag).
- Stratiform metals base in the shallow marine sediments (Pb, Zn, Cu, Co, Ba) - phosphate and U in shallow marine sediments.
- Deposits of sandstone-type U in the continental red beds.
- Placer deposits (Au).
- Oil.
- Underground water.
- Gypsum, salt and suffers from sabkha - sedimentary phosphoresces.
- Ti and Zr in the heavy mineral sands.
- Deposits of sandstone-U deposits – oil.
- Underground water.
Mauritania also has many other indices such as peat, suffer, lead, zink, chromium, manganese black sands, uranium, rare earths, beryllium and lithium, and a potential of building materials (Grainer, sand, etc. ...) Industrial minerals and stones (gemne) ornamental stones) and various substances (clay, limestone, kaolin dolman ... etc).
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