Technical Letter Number 39: Mineral Exploration between Bi'r Idimah and Wadi Haraman, Asir Quadrangle, Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Published by United States Geological Survey (USGS), Jiddah [Jeddah], 1966
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Condition: Used - Good
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Original staple-bound green printed wraps 22x28cm. (1)pp covering letter from Glen Brown to Fadil Kabbani, Deputy Minister for Mineral Resources; 70pp Overstreet's report printed to the rectos only. Wraps good, foxed, torn to the upper staple at the front, staples rusted. Interiors very good with ink offsetting to several of the blank versos (not affecting text). This report is a very early "preliminary" product of the monumental USGS-Aramco mapping project (1956-63), which, among other things, produced 21 Geological maps covering the whole of Saudi Arabia in a series of Quadrangles numbered I-200A to I-220A. It was prepared under the follow-up Saudi Arabian Mineral Exploration Project launched in 1963, which Brown coordinated from Jeddah. Overstreet conducted his fieldwork during 8 May to 27 June 1965 using Map I-217A (Asir Quadrangle). This continued his expedition made the previous year between Khamis Mushayt and Bi'r Idimah (described in Technical Letter No. 23). He travelled 5300km accompanied by the local guide Maeith and driver Homud Saud in two 3/4 ton 4x4 Ford pickups provided by the Directorate General for Mineral Resources, with aircraft dispatched for 4 scheduled rendezvous. He took 490 samples of wadi sand, about the same number of magnetite, and 41 other materials. He identified possibilities for marble and asbestos, and suggested an ancient mine, the Ishaaib, may contain copper (pp4-5). He prepared the report on 5 July 1965, and it was issued on 15 January 1966. Very rare. Brown's covering letter states 10 copies were sent to Kabbani. Additional copies would have been circulated within USGS and probably Aramco. Worldcat records other letters in the series, but not this one. USGS reissued it in 1968 as Open-File Report 68-207 (USGS website).…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Technical Letter Number 39: Mineral Exploration between Bi'r Idimah and Wadi Haraman, Asir Quadrangle, Saudi Arabia
- Author
- Overstreet, William C.; Glen F. Brown
- Publisher
- United States Geological Survey (USGS), Jiddah [Jeddah]
- Publication year
- 1966
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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