Gold artisanal zone in Mauritania. no figure
Origin: Mauritania
Site data
- Commodity: Gold
- Tier: Artisanal zone (no reliable production figure; separate marker)
- Status: Active
- Operator / ownership: Informal, regulated by Maaden Mauritanie (state)
- Production: no figure
- Coordinates: 20.1673, -15.9724 (WP)
Security context
- Mauritania’s artisanal gold rush (since 2016) is regulated through Chami and the state agency Maaden Mauritanie. Incidents are in the far north-east: Algerian troops raided Mauritanian prospectors near Chegatt in Jan 2025 and fired on them in late Dec 2025.
Sources
- Hespress, Algerian fire on Mauritanian miners: https://en.hespress.com/128480-reports-of-algerian-fire-on-mauritanian-gold-miners-raise-border-tensions.html
- Map and tier rule: 03 Resources Map
Media
Regional security map; this site is outside the four zooms.