Robert P. Foster, Editor, SEG, has assembled more than 300 papers in this searchable compilation provide extensive coverage of the mineral deposits in Africa. Contributions are drawn from Economic Geology, the SEG Special Publications, Reviews Volumes, Economic Geology Monographs, Anniversary Volumes, and the SEG Newsletter. The Preface provides a useful background on the collected works. The African continent extends over an area of approximately 30 million km2, representing about 20% of the Earth total land area. From the precious and base metal deposits of Morocco to the huge metal repositories of the Bushveld Igneous Complex and Witwatersrand of South Africa, the continent is remarkably endowed with mineral wealth and has been explored and exploited since the earliest days of civilization.
This exploitation accelerated in the 19th and 20th centuries with demand from an exploding world population that needed the resources to underpin society expectations and was fueled by the industry ability to mine deeper and more effectively than ever before. Discovery of the Witwatersrand goldfields in the 1880s and the recognition of the importance of the Central African Copperbelt in the early part of the 20th century reinforced the view that Africa was a treasure house of mineral wealth and was underexplored, a view that still prevails today (2016) with a very considerable number of exploration and mining companies active throughout the continent.
Many of the existing deposits and also new discoveries have received extensive coverage in the issues of Economic Geology from its first date of publication in the early 20th century. The journal remains the leading medium for the systematic and rigorous reporting of mineral deposits, consideration of the multiple metallogenic factors that underpin our understanding of and search for these deposits, and the controversies that often surround their genesis.
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