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Oursi

Occurrence in Burkina Faso with commodity Vanadium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024929
MRDS ID ISM0681
Record type Site
Current site name Oursi
Alternate or previous names Tin Edia, Gouba, Gountouwala, Kolel Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -0.49852, 14.58385 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 50 KM FROM TAMBAO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burkina Faso(country)

Geographic areas

Country
Burkina Faso

Comments on the location information

  • TOTAL STRIKE LENGTH OF DEPOSITION IS APPROXIMATELY 6KM. ELEVATION: 20M A.S.L. 60KM BY ROAD FROM EAST LONDON.
  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN THE PHYSICOGRAPHIC PROVINCE OF THE NORTHERN UPPER VOLTA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ZIRCONIUM
  • VANADIUM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Rock unit name Birrimian Intrusives
    Rock description Birrimian Intrusives
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -0.49852, 14.58385
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; MGNT, ILMN, PYTT, PNLD, ARPR; 10 SIGNIFICANT MAGNETITE DEPOSITS HAVE BEEN DETERMINED, THICKNESSES RANGING FROM 0.5 TO 40M AND LENGTHS UP TO 750M. SYNGENETIC MAGNETITE CONCENTRATION IN GABBROS. ALTERATION OCCURS AND A SIGNIFICANT LOCAL STRUCTURE IS THE OURSI SYNCLINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Oursi Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • BY CALCULATION

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (NO INFRA STRUCTURE;). DEVELOPMENT(NO); EXPLORATION(NO); ASSESSMENT(THE GRADES ARE GENERALLY TOO LOW FOR EXPLOITATION); NONE
  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (). EXPLORATION(NO); MAGNETITE ORE CONTAINS 0.75% V2O5. EXPLORATION DEPENDS ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE 350KM RAILWAY LINE.

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.).
Deposit First Production Year: INACTIVE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1986 Krauss, Ulrich H. Bundesanstalt Fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffee (Germany)
Reporter 01-JAN-1986 Rossouw, Cindy Geological Survey of South Africa

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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