Djerissa

Producer in Tunisia with commodities Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Links to other databases
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. General comments
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10305000
MAS/MILS ID 7230150001
Record type Site
Current site name Djerissa

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 8.63506, 35.83277 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tunisia(country)

Geographic areas

Country
Tunisia

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary
Silica Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) 8.63506, 35.83277

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DMA SERIES 1501 MAP, SHEET NI 32-2, SCALE 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    SURVEY OF WORLD IRON ORE RESOURCES, DEPT. OF ECON. AND SOC.

  • Deposit

    AFFAIRS, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, 1970, PP.66-67.

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    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. MRDS MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM.

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    SAINFELD, PAUL. THE LEAD-ZINC BEARING DEPOSITS OF TUNISIA.

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    ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. 1956. PP. 150-177.

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    POHL,, W., M. AMOURI, O. KOLLI, AND D. ZACHMANN. A NEW

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    GENETIC MODEL FOR THE NORTH AFRICAN METASOMATIC SIDERITE

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    DEPOSITS. MINERALIUM DEPOSITA 21,1986. PP. 228-233.

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    WALTHER, H.W., AND A. ZITZMAN ED. THE IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF

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    EUROPE AND ADJACENT AREAS. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL

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    CONFERENCE, HANOVER 1977. PP. 303-308

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    ORGEVAL, JEAN-JAQUES, DENIS GIOT, JALIA KAROUI, JAQUES

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    MONTHEL, AND RACHEL SAHLI. LE GISEMENT DE ZN-PB DE BOU

  • Deposit

    GRINE (ATLAS TUNISIEN). DESCRIPTION ET HITORIQUE'DE

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    LA DECOUVERTE. CHRON. RECH. MIN. NO. 482, 3/86. PP.5-32

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    DEFENSE MAPPING AGENCY. TUNISIA-OFFICIAL STANDARD NAMES

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    GAZETEER NO. 81. 1964.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CAPACITY OF DJERISSA, TAMERA (SEQ.NO. 723-055-0001) AND DOUARIA (SEQ.NO. 723-055-0002) IS 800,000 MTPY FE ORE. CO-ORDINATES ARE OF DJEBEL DJERISSA, 77 KM NNW OF KASSERINE. REPLACEMENT LENSES OF SIDERITE IN LIMESTONE WITH ASSOCIATED HEMATITE. ORE IS MANGANIFEROUS. CAPACITY REPORTED AT 560,000 MT/YR.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-APR-1997 Boyle, Ed U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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