Identification Of Collapsible Soils In Deroua (Morocco)

Deroua belongs to the Berrechid plain and it is characterized generally by a flat relief, formations from the quaternary and Pliocene age and unconformably on sedimentary formations of Cretaceous and Permian Triassic on shcists from the primaries. Several anomalies were detected in the buildings and pavement structures in different cities in the territory of the Berrechid plain, such as settlement, cracking or even sudden collapses. The presence of a water table with 1500 square kilometers in area, the climatology of the region and a major urban development are factors favoring collapsing soils. Thus, we conducted a series of geotechnical tests on four samples taken from Deroua, 10 km from the city of Berrechid to identify the nature of the soils of this city in order to study their behavior in unsaturated state. The results of Atterberg limits and the oedometer test, correlated with results of previous studies and bibliographical research confirm the hypothesis of collapsible soils. Therefore, the results will help to quantify and map the collapse of soils in Deroua, in order to establish a local hazards map that can be exploited by the urban agency

Contribution of geophysics for the characterization of ore deposits, case of the Bouarfa mine, Morocco.

Geophysical methods are one of the best ways to determine the potential of a mining area. Indeed, for the prospection of metalliferous deposits, the magnetic method remains essential as it makes it possible to characterize the extent and the depth of the anomalous bodies present in the prospected zone, mainly due to their reaction with the values of the total magnetic field. Thus, for the manganese mining zone of Bouarfa and more exactly Hammraouet, the genesis of the deposit is such that the manganese is generally associated with ferruginous minerals and clearly affect the total magnetic field. That said, the raw results obtained must imperatively be subjected to corrections to only keep the effect of the anomalous bodies on the magnetic field. Hence, we must proceed with the correction of the daytime effect then we eliminate the regional effects to get the map of the residual anomaly and finally we perform a reduction to the pole that will allow us to have well individualized and unipolar anomalies and thus allowing us to locate precisely the potentially mineralized axes. The synthesis of the various maps obtained by spatial interpolation of the data recorded in situ and corrected allows us to locate areas of mining interest and to determine the different tectonic phenomena that took place in our study area. In time, these maps will serve us to guide the subsequent mechanical surveys to confirm the results obtained by geophysical methods

Contribution of geophysics for the characterization of ore deposits, case of the Bouarfa mine, Morocco.

Geophysical methods are one of the best ways to determine the potential of a mining area. Indeed, for the prospection of metalliferous deposits, the magnetic method remains essential as it makes it possible to characterize the extent and the depth of the anomalous bodies present in the prospected zone, mainly due to their reaction with the values of the total magnetic field. Thus, for the manganese mining zone of Bouarfa and more exactly Hammraouet, the genesis of the deposit is such that the manganese is generally associated with ferruginous minerals and clearly affect the total magnetic field. That said, the raw results obtained must imperatively be subjected to corrections to only keep the effect of the anomalous bodies on the magnetic field. Hence, we must proceed with the correction of the daytime effect then we eliminate the regional effects to get the map of the residual anomaly and finally we perform a reduction to the pole that will allow us to have well individualized and unipolar anomalies and thus allowing us to locate precisely the potentially mineralized axes. The synthesis of the various maps obtained by spatial interpolation of the data recorded in situ and corrected allows us to locate areas of mining interest and to determine the different tectonic phenomena that took place in our study area. In time, these maps will serve us to guide the subsequent mechanical surveys to confirm the results obtained by geophysical methods