Man Shield
For the Canadian construction company, see Man-Shield.
The Man Shield or Leo-Man Shield or Craton is a geological area in the southeast of the West African Craton, in part overlaid by gold-bearing Birimian formations.
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- Mason, Edited by Robert (1992), Basement tectonics 7 : proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 1987, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, ISBN 0-7923-1582-0
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- Imrich Kusnir, "Gold in Mali", Acta Montanistica Slovaca 1999 4, retrieved 2009-03-25
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- West Africa Exploration Initiative: Stage 1, AMIRA International Limited, June 2006, retrieved 2009-03-25
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