Zimbabwe Regional Geochemical Survey.

During the period 1982-86 a team of geologists from the British Geological Survey carried out a programme of regional geological mapping and geochemical exploration in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Geological Survey under a Technical Co-operation agreement supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) (formerly Overseas Development Agency). Three regions of Zimbabwe were mapped (Harare, Rushinga & Nyampanda, and Makaha) and the results of the stream sediment geochemical surveys were presented as three reports. Over 17,000 stream sediments were collected and analysed for Cu, Pb, Zn, Co, Ni, Mn, Li, As, Ba, Sn, Ta, and W. Raw data can be obtained from the Geological Survey of Zimbabwe, PO Box CY210,Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Date (Creation): 1982

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480409

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Geochemical exploration
Geology
data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
Exploration
Geochemical maps
Geochemistry
Regional geology

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data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Denominator: 10000

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: ZIMBABWE [id=677000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier: ZW
ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: ZWE
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Begin date: 1982

End date: 1986

Supplemental Information: PUBLICATION: A REGIONAL DRAINAGE GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION SURVEY OF THE HARARE AREA, ZIMBABWE. RESEARCH REPORT OF THE BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, NO MP/87/18. PUBLICATION: A REGIONAL DRAINAGE GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION SURVEY OF THE MAKAHA AREA, NORTH-EAST ZIMBABWE. RESEARCH REPORT OF THE BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, NO MP/87/17. Harare: Average density (sample per square km) 2.7; Fraction used -80 mesh Rushinga & Nyamapanda: Average density (sample per square km) 1.55; Fraction used -80 mesh Makaha: Average density (sample per square km) 3.8; Fraction used -80 mesh During preparation of the CD-ROM the data has also been "cleaned" by replacing all 0 (below detection values) with a value 2/3rds the reported detection limits (rounded to an integer).

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 / UTM zone 36N (EPSG::32636)

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data in various formats, MS Excel, MS Word and image files available on a CD-ROM	1.1 Feb.1999

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.bgs.ac.uk/gbase/geochemcd/home.html

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: This work pre-dated the desktop PC era and the analytical data was stored on a Cifer 1880 microcomputer and PDP11 magnetic tapes. These data have recently been transferred to PC format and stored as a CD-ROM database. Some of the XRF data was lost.