Humans first seen the Gold in this land from +6000 years ago. Land of Gold is our first documentary series to show the ancient & current gold mining activities in the Arabian Nubia Shield.

Narrator: Wahballah Mubarak
Music: Royalty Free Music from Bensound

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Sources:
Geological maps:
– 10M geological map of Africa (2016). © BRGM.
– Geological Provinces map of Africa 5M & Arabia 2M by Dr. Thomas Ahlbrandt(1997).
– Map-of-the-Arabian-Nubian-Shield-Johnson-and-Woldehaimanot-2003

Minerals Locations:
– The Mineral Occurrence Data System (MODS)
– USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) – AFR_BRGM_MineralOccurrences
– Metallic , Non Metallic occurrences from EMRA metallurgy map 1M scale /1998 edition.

Elevations data & Imagery:
– GEBCO’s gridded bathymetric data set, the GEBCO_2019 grid.
– ESA Copernicus Sentinel 2 MSI imagery.