Gold Price in Mauritania Today

Gold price in Mauritania today, updated live with the world spot price and converted at the exchange rate the market actually trades — about 39.9 Mauritanian ouguiya (MRU) per US dollar: gram prices for 21K, 24K and 18K in ouguiya and US dollars, plus the ounce, bullion and silver. Mauritania is a 21K country for jewellery — the karat of dowries and everyday gold — and it is also a real gold-producing country: about 21.95 tonnes in 2024 according to the USGS, the second-largest Arab producer after Sudan, from the Tasiast mine, Guelb Moghrein and widespread artisanal mining in the north. One warning before any number: several international price sites show Mauritania gold about 6% higher than the figures here, because they convert the world price at an implied rate near 42.4 ouguiya per dollar — a stale rate no Mauritanian market uses. Our tables use the live market rate, and we say so openly on every page.

Gold in Mauritania — what to know

The trade’s heart is Nouakchott’s markets and gold shops, with Nouadhibou and the interior towns behind it, and artisanal production country in the north around Zouérat and the Tiris Zemmour region. The local facts that matter: jewellery gold is 21K (stamped 875) by custom; 24K is the metal of bars, bullion coins and savings; 18K appears in finer, stone-set and imported pieces. Mauritania’s currency is called the ouguiya — the same word as the old unit from which “ounce” language derives — so a sentence like “the ounce costs 166,587 ouguiya” mixes a weight (the troy ounce, 31.1035 g of fine gold) with a currency (MRU, about 39.9 per dollar); keep the two apart and every Mauritanian price table becomes readable. The exchange rate itself is one of the region’s most stable, holding a narrow band around 39.9–40.0 for over a year, which is why a price site converting at ~42.4 stands out: at a spot of $4,166.45 those sites printed 5,680.15 MRU for a gram of 24K, while the market-rate figure — the one Google’s AI Overview quotes — was about 5,388. Shop prices for new jewellery sit above the raw gram value in our table by workmanship and the shop’s margin; we publish no official workmanship figure for Mauritania because none is documented, and our Arabic checker page splits any shop quote into raw value versus additions so you can compare jewellers yourself. Gold coins circulate as savings pieces and are priced the honest way — by formula: the day’s gram price for the coin’s actual karat, times its actual weighed weight; weigh and hallmark-check any coin before money changes hands.

The Arabic Mauritania section

Every Mauritania page also exists in Arabic with the full toolset: the flagship 21K page, 24K, 18K, silver, bullion and gold coins, the ounce, a gold calculator with unit converter and portfolio tracker, a zakat calculator, a price checker, and a sell calculator for the used market: أسعار الذهب في موريتانيا بالعربية

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the gold price in Mauritania today?

Live prices are in the table above: gram prices for 21K, 24K and 18K in Mauritanian ouguiya and US dollars, updated with the world spot price and converted at the market exchange rate of about 39.9 ouguiya per dollar, which we state openly. When this page was built, a gram of 24K was about 5,355.91 ouguiya ($134.11), 21K — Mauritania’s jewellery standard — about 4,686.42 ouguiya, and the troy ounce about 166,587.40 ouguiya at a spot price of $4,171.40. These are raw metal values before workmanship and shop margin.

Why do some websites show Mauritania gold about 6% higher?

Because they convert the world gold price at an implied exchange rate of about 42.4 ouguiya per dollar instead of the market rate of about 39.9–40.0, which has been stable for over a year according to documented exchange sources. The error inflates every price they show for Mauritania by roughly 6% — every karat, every bar, every ounce. Google’s AI Overview quotes the market-rate figure (about 5,388 ouguiya per gram of 24K when spot was $4,166.45), and so do we. If a shop quote seems to match those higher sites rather than our table, the shop is probably reading the same stale-rate source — ask for the quote split into raw value and additions.

What karat is Mauritanian jewellery?

21K (stamped 875) is the standard for jewellery, dowries and gifts — high purity with enough hardness for daily wear, and the karat every Mauritanian jeweller buys and sells without hesitation. 24K is reserved for bars, coins and savings; 18K (stamped 750) is used for fine, stone-set and imported pieces. You may occasionally hear 23K mentioned in West African markets for older or cross-border pieces; it is not a standard hallmarked karat here, so have any such piece’s stamp and weight verified before paying a premium for it.

Is Mauritania a gold-producing country?

Yes — one of the Arab world’s largest. The USGS puts Mauritania’s 2024 gold production at about 21.95 tonnes, second among Arab countries only to Sudan: roughly 19.36 tonnes from the Tasiast mine in Inchiri (operated by Canada’s Kinross), about a tonne from Guelb Moghrein, and the rest from artisanal mining across the north. That production country coexists with a normal consumer market in Nouakchott — miners sell raw output priced off the same world spot and the same exchange rate used in the tables on this page.

What is the difference between an ounce and an ouguiya?

A troy ounce is a unit of weight for precious metals — 31.1035 grams of fine gold — priced worldwide in US dollars. The ouguiya (MRU) is Mauritania’s currency, worth about 1/39.9 of a dollar. The similar names cause real confusion when reading prices: “the ounce is 166,587 ouguiya” means 31.1035 grams of gold priced in Mauritanian currency. Whenever a Mauritania price looks surprising, check which ouguiya is meant — and which exchange rate was used to produce the number.