The Minister of Petroleum, Energy and Mines, Abdessalam Ould Mohamed Saleh revealed that Mauritania has significant gold reserves. He was speaking at a high-level meeting between Algeria and Mauritania devoted to reviewing cooperation in the fields of energy and mining.

The Minister of Petroleum, Energy and Mines, Abdessalam Ould Mohamed Saleh revealed that Mauritania has significant mineral wealth, thanks to more than a thousand hectares of land.The most important of these are iron, copper, uranium, phosphate, platinum components and others. "Although many areas of the country have not been prospected, the following mineral reserves have been identified," he added. He also announced that "Mauritania has recently made significant gas discoveries estimated at one hundred trillion m3.

Iron: more than four billion tons, which makes Mauritania one of the largest iron producers in Africa and the second largest iron exporter in the continent; gold, more than twenty-five million ounces; copper: twenty-eight million tons; phosphates: one hundred and forty million tons; uranium: seventy million pounds; gypsum: two billion tons; black earth: five hundred million tons; quartz: more than eleven million tons