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	Das weisse Gold von Timbuktu
		Malis früherer Diktator Moussa Traoré verbannte seine politischen Gegner in diesen Wüstenort und liess sie in der Salzmine qualvoll zugrunde gehen.
		Taoudenni liegt in einer steinigen Ebene, umgeben von Felsen und Dünen, in einer der heissesten und unwirtlichsten Gegenden der Welt.
		Taoudenni ist übersät mit solchen Gruben, die ältesten sind bereits wieder mit Wüstensand gefüllt.
	www.schulgarten.ch /texte/salz.htm (2457 words)

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		Taoudenni has no houses, no fresh water, no medicines, no electricity, no telephone, not even any cooking fuel apart from camel dung.
		For their final six days to Taoudenni the camels have no grazing at all, so the caravans carry mountains of fodder – all laboriously hand-picked by the camel-drivers during their brief overnight stops.
		Next morning I took a last stroll across Taoudenni’s lunar landscape, listened for a final time to the tap, tap, tap of the miners’ picks under my feet, said farewell to three or four of them who, with Hamada translating, had become genuine friends, and climbed into Adei’s pickup for the journey south.
	www.pilk.net /update5.sahara.html (3684 words)

	NPR : Interview with Wade Davis, On the Edge of Timbuktu, Radio Expeditions
		The salt of the French is said to cause diseases; that of Taoudenni is known to heal.
		But the Taoudenni salt has a magical resonance that has less to do with its innate properties than with the mystique of the culture of the trade, the remoteness of the mine, the stories that have been handed down over the generations.
		There was one man we met Taoudenni, the only miner known to have spent a full year at the mine in its entire 800-year history.
	www.npr.org /programs/re/archivesdate/2003/may/mali/davisinterview.html (6565 words)

	Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold Natural History - Find Articles
		Taoudenni, Marl, situated deep in the Sahara Desert, is as barren as the surface of Mars.
		"[Taoudenni] is situated on utterly lifeless desert flats; not a single leaf, or even thorn, grows from the parched, dusty dirt, which was so sharp it bit into the soles of my bare feet."
		At Taoudenni the heat is hellish, the well water brackish, and the housing little more than a cluster of dirt huts made of rubble from the mines.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_2_115/ai_n16101121 (576 words)

	Ancient salt trade lives on in the Saharan desert
		The destination of the caravans is Taoudenni, a remote and inhospitable oasis some 700 km north of Timbuktu.
		The layers of underground salt deposits in the region are the remnants of dry lake beds.
		In Taoudemi, salt slabs are loaded on to camels' backs using thin hide straps though they are well-protected by cushioning sacks of straw strapped to their flanks.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Business/20060402/295158.html (678 words)

	Sub-Saharan Desert Nomads Pause To Criticize Mike Martz’s Play-Calling
		TAOUDENNI, MALI--In a further sign of the eroding public opinion of the Rams head coach, a group of desert nomads took time out of their trek across the Sahara to openly question Mike Martz’s play calling.
		The nomads, traveling through Mali on their way to the salt mines of Taoudenni, were accompanied by Liz Goodwin, a British journalist working for the BBC.
		Goodwin was assigned to tag along with the group, known as Tuaregs, to observe their day-to-day lives and learn about their customs, beliefs, and social mores.
	www.thebrushback.com /Archives/subsaharan_full.htm (1180 words)

	West African Geographic Locvations
		During the colonial period, it was used by the French as their military headquarters for the war against the nomads.
		Taoudenni is a site in northern Mali, about 700 kilometers north of Timbuktu in the Sahara Desert.
		In the past, it was the source of rock salt mined in slabs (barres) and shipped by camel to Timbuktu, and from there to markets all over West Africa.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/archives/helpers/geog-txt.htm (1539 words)

	Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1974 Richard Trench decided to undertake a journalistic investigation of the salt mines in Taoudenni, Mali, which were thought to be the site of slave labor done by prisoners.
		Salt mining in this part of Africa is an important part of history and lore; salt has been carried to market by camel caravan for centuries, and it was at times so rare that it was reportedly worth its weight in gold.
		His account of the journey -- his relationship with his guides, the difficulties of desert travel, encounters with government officials -- is very good reading.
	www.connectedglobe.com /cgi-local/amazon/cgapf.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&myOperation=CustomerReviews&ItemId=0897330277&templates=millennium (160 words)

	The Online Edition of the STARS Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Taoudenni, Bella and Haratin tribes work, while Tuaregs and Magribs are traders.
		In Timbuktu all the trade and manufacturing are in the hands of Tuaregs and Magribs, with rumours going around about slavery in Taoudenni.
		I rented a four wheel drive with a driver, a guide who knew Araouane village and another Tuareg guide who was in charge of finding our way in the desert.
	www.stars.com /travel/throughthewildness.html (1809 words)

	Robert Higdon's Paris-Dakar Report Day 9
		Today's route was scheduled to head south and east from Taoudenni to Gao, a 918 km run through Mali with all but the last 112 km constituting the day's stage.
		In the first week of the event, 40 of the 173 bikes that began the rally were lost to attrition.
		Insolent thieves, contemptuous of the rally's prestige, had made off with one of the Czechoslovakian trucks and were rumored to be on their way to Algeria, just 100 miles to the northeast.
	www.ironbutt.org /higdon/98pddy10.htm (788 words)

	Malikounda.com
		Des géologues de l'entreprise ont déjà effectué quelques repérages, faisant appel à des mineurs des mines de sel de Taoudenni pour les guider.
		Les bassins remis à jours sur la base des anciennes études au Mali se situent à Taoudenni, Gao, Tullemden, Tamesma et Nara, avec des couches pétrolifères profondes de 2 à 5 km.
		Les recherches dans la zone de Taoudenni, réputée peu sûre jusqu'à présent à cause de la présence de contrebandiers et de membres du Groupement des salafistes pour la prédication et le combat (GSPC), vont être désormais facilitées car les Etats-Unis ont contribué à pacifier la région.
	www.malikounda.com /continu_reportage_voir.php?idReportage=22 (698 words)

	Forbidden \| Outside Online
		This was to be the last stop before a high-speed run to the historic and formerly forbidden salt mines at Taoudenni, which — we didn't know — might not even exist anymore.
		But, Alberto had heard, there were still people working in the mines, on their own, for money, and since there was a thin red lie on the map but no real roads from the mines at Taoudenni to Timbuktu, Alberto figured there still had to be camel caravans, carrying salt across the flowing dunes.
		Taoudenni salt was more expensive than the more plentiful sea salt, but West Africans — truly spectacular cooks who combine French technique with African ingredients and creativity — believe it is the best tasting and are willing to pay premium prices.
	www.outsidemag.com /magazine/1097/9710forbid.html (9340 words)

	SedStrat Bremen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Africa the Infracambrian source rock potential is unclear, although previous and recent exploration studies in the Taoudenni Basin outline promising perspectives.
		The project aims for to understand the source rock facies of stromatolitic limestones and its regional distribution in the analogue model of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco.
		For control of the analogue model, a dataset from the Mauritanian Taoudenni Basin delivered TOC and pyrolysis data, which were compared with the outcrop data.
	www.geo.uni-bremen.de /geochronologie/projects/Markus_Infracambrium.htm (122 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Men of Salt, by Michael Benanav, Hardcover
		Century after century, camels and their drivers have traveled the sands between the fabled city of Timbuktu and the notorious salt mines of Taoudenni, hauling supplies from the proverbial end of the earth to an even farther-flung outpost, deep in Mali's slice of the Sahara.
		There is romanticism, especially in Benanav's warm accounts of his fellow travelers, but there's also an awareness of the deadly perils of their world, especially the salt mines themselves, so desolate they were used as a gulag for political prisoners until 1991.
		His goal was to follow a camel caravan to the desert salt quarries of Taoudenni and back to Timbuktu before trucks took the place of these legendary ships of the desert.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=1592287727&z=y&r=1&cds2Pid=9481 (1167 words)

	TransAfrica. Viaggi e Spedizioni in Africa Occidentale.
		Taoudenni has always been the very dream of travellers in Sahara...
		Back through the ancient tracks of the caravans which from Teghaza's salt mines linked Timbuctu and Oualata, in the south, the "fl country", the oasis of Chinguetti and Oadane at the west, Sijilmassa, the Maghreb and the mediterranean coast, at the north.
		Tha date of this expedition coincides with the period of maximum concentration of caravans between Timbuctu and Taoudenni.
	www.transafrica.biz /en/v_Timbuctu-oceano_2007_en.htm (136 words)

	St. Lawrence University: St. Lawrence Magazine
		On sabbatical in Spring 2001, Associate Professor of Anthropology John Barthelme attended the Pan-African Archaeological Conference in Mali in February.
		With time to travel afterwards, he signed on to a working camel caravan scheduled to haul salt slabs from Taoudenni, northern Mali, south across 900 kilometers of Sahara desert and the Sahel ("Sahara" is Arabic for "sand sea," "Sahel" Arabic for "sand sea shore") to Timbuktu, near the Niger River in central Mali.
		The journey took 21 days, during which Barthelme was able to conduct some archaeological research, learned new ways of living in relation to his environment, and, in his words, "gracefully discovered my own mortality." The pictures and observations here are drawn from his journal of his experiences.
	web.stlawu.edu /magazine/fall01/camel.html (443 words)

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		Shadows were lengthening as a camel caravan wove its way among dunes towards the northern outskirts of the town.
		Trucks and lorries have not yet made inroads at the Taoudenni salt mine‚ surrounded by the vast ergs‚ or dunefields‚ of Mali’s deep Sahara.
		During the cool weather from October to March‚ Tuareg and Moorish nomads carry rock salt from the heart of the desert to the banks of the Niger.
	www.travelleronline.com /library/traveller/article.jsp?id=1096 (755 words)

	Tucano Viaggi di Ricerca
		Nel pianoro di Ougla i nomadi sanno trovare l'acqua scavando con le mani nella sabbia, Bufelghia significa "il buco fra i denti" ed indica un passaggio fra le rocce.
		L'arrivo a Taoudenni, valicando la catena di dune di El Alous è spettacolare.
		Non più schiavi o prigionieri, questi uomini, in maggior parte discendenti degli Harratin (schiavi degli arabi), minatori da generazioni, trascorrono a Taoudenni sei mesi l'anno.
	www.tucanoviaggi.com /descviaggio.asp?idvoce=2&IDviaggio=556&voce=Giorno (1362 words)

	NPR : On the Edge of Timbuktu
		For National Geographic Radio Expeditions, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows Davis -- a renowned ethnobotanist who studies the use of local plants by indigenous peoples -- to Timbuktu to study the desert culture surrounding the ancient city.
		The expedition starts in Timbuktu, travels up through the old desert community of Araouane and on to the salt mines of Taoudenni in the middle of the Sahara.
		Travelers have been coming for centuries to Timbuktu, now part of the West African country of Mali.
	www.npr.org /programs/re/archivesdate/2003/may/mali (1164 words)

	REINHART MAZUR CROSSING MAURETANIA'S EMPTY QUARTER
		Wir entscheiden uns, den Ort zu umgehen, nicht zuletzt in der Hoffnung, auf der Rückreise Taoudenni von Timbuktu aus sicherer erreichen zu können.
		Taoudenni liegt schon lange hinter uns, als wir gewahr werden, daß wir alleine sind auf weiter Flur.
		Terhazzas Funktion wurde von Taoudenni übernommen, das noch heute alljährlich 5000 Tonnen Salzplatten produziert.
	www.tlc-exped.net /R10-T487.html (2800 words)

	Timbuctou to Taoudenni by camel - The HUBB
		This message is for Alistair Bestow or anyone else who has made the trip from Timbuctou to Taoudenni by camel.....
		I travelled to Taoudenni and back by camel a third time in late 2003, and was charged CFA650,000 for the trip, not the CFA600,000 noted in the book.
		Dramane (his full name is Abderhamane Alpha Maiga)is very easy to find in Timbuktu -he is the manager of Timbuktu's latest up-market hotel, the Hotel Hendrina Khan, located south of the centre of town.
	www.horizonsunlimited.com /hubb/sahara-travel-forum/timbuctou-to-taoudenni-by-camel-16115 (441 words)

	To Taoudenni by Camel - The HUBB
		I travelled to Taoudenni from Timbuktu and return by camel (again) in November 2005.
		However, he did accompany me to Taoudenni as a translator, speaks quite reasonable English, and does know what is involved in the trip.
		If you are serious about the possibility of such a trip, email me at a_bestow@hotmail.com I am just about to leave for Bilma so I wont be able to reply immediately.
	www.horizonsunlimited.com /hubb/sahara-travel-forum/to-taoudenni-by-camel-18241#post83766 (340 words)

	Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - Mali guidebook - history I - Salt of the Earth
		I would say about a third of the population of Timbuktu depends on it.
		The salt is carried on camels from Taoudenni [in the far north of Mali] to Timbuktu, a journey of about 700 miles.
		In a salt train, each camel carries four slabs of salt, each weighing about 25 kilos.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /coolplanet/ontheline/explore/journey/mali/salt.htm (359 words)

	Journeyman Pictures : short films : The Last Salt Caravan
		Timbuktu in Mali — city of legends, and still a centre for the salt trade.
		Salt comes from Taoudenni, a desolate place 700km away in the north.
		Shrouded in blue tunic and scarf to avoid inhaling the desert, he prepares his caravan of camels for the journey to the bleak salt mines of Taoudenni.
	www.journeyman.tv /?lid=8948 (730 words)

	Energy and Geoscience Institute Instructional Services Catalog
		A literature search resulted in the regional geological study of Chad and adjacent countries as a background to the specific field assignment.
		The Chad Basin, which is roughly pentangular in shape, is the largest of the basins of western central Africa and includes the Taoudenni and Iullemmeden Basins.
		Topographical sketch of basement, Chad Basin 2 Fig.
	associates.egi.utah.edu /Database/ReportReview.cfm?Record=280 (294 words)

	Men of Salt - HBS Working Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		By the late 1500s, miners discovered the richest salt deposits in what is now the hamlet of Taoudenni (“the middle of nowhere”).
		The pride of Taoudenni remains a profitable business today for traders who venture into the harsh desert because they can strap great quantities to their camels.
		Benanav’s initial fear and assumption—that the tribesmen’s exotic way of life was disappearing due to an influx of Land Rovers and planes—was mostly disproved during his travels.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /archive/5220.html (330 words)

	Chaco
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		For over a thousand years, camels have plied the sands between the fabled city of Timbuktu and the notorious salt mines of Taoudenni.
		They haul supplies from the proverbial end of the earth to an outpost even farther flung, deep in northern Mali 's slice of the Sahara.
	www.chacousa.com /inside/StoryArchive.cfm?Story=42 (311 words)

	Mali Tourist Attractions & Mali Tourism \| iExplore.com
		Timbuktu is a name that has passed into English vernacular as a byword for inaccessibility and remoteness.
		It is, however, neither of these things owing to the magnificent camel caravans (some of them comprising over 3000 animals) which arrive every year from the Taoudenni salt mines to distribute their produce throughout the Sahel.
		By the 15th century, Timbuktu was the center of a lucrative trade in salt and gold, straddling the trans-Saharan caravan routes, as well as being a great center of Islamic learning.
	www.africa.com /dmap/Mali/Where+to+Go (461 words)

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		At the end of 2005 John set out on a new adventure in Mali.
		After attending the famous ‘Festival in the Desert’, he joined a camel caravan from Timbuktu to the notorious salt mines of Taoudenni – a three-week, 450-mile journey to the very heart of the Sahara.
		The trip took him through stunning desert landscapes and gave a taste of Sahara life as it was a millennium ago, when the Taoudenni mines were first established and when salt was, literally, worth its weight in gold.
	www.pilk.net /lecture.sahara.html (96 words)

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