Gold Deposits
Categorical layer where cells are defined as lootable, surface, or non-lootable gold deposits (or mix). Derived from GOLDATA dataset which consists of 2969 entries for gold occurrences in 108 countries.
Dataset downloaded September 2017.
Details
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|
| Type |
raster |
| Global coverage |
Yes |
| Tags |
environment, resources, gold, conflict |
| Variable |
gold deposit type |
| License |
Not recorded — see the source link |
Resources
| Name |
Label |
Date |
| categorical_gold_v12_none |
— |
— |
Value Mappings
| Value |
Label |
| 0 |
none |
| 1 |
lootable |
| 2 |
surface |
| 3 |
nonlootable |
| 4 |
mix |
Citation
Balestri Sara & Mario A. Maggioni, 2014. ‘Blood diamonds, dirty gold and spatial spill-overs: Measuring conflict dynamics in Western Africa’, in Peace Economics, Peace science and Public Policy, Vol. 20 (4): 551-564.