[4] The British, after surveying the mountain and sending samples to be tested in London in the summer of 1947, decided that it should be mined for gypsum.

Jacques Leblanc, a geologist working for QatarEnergy, notes that while the British report explicitly mentions Jebel Nakhsh, the mountain bears no apparent signs of exploitation and that it may be a case of mistaken identity.

[3] The jebel was a site of contention in the early-to-mid 20th century between Ibn Saud and Amir Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani.

[7] In a 1935 correspondence between British diplomats concerning the Saudi–Qatar frontier, the British claimed that "they [the Qataris] could never consent to attribute to Saudi Arabia features, such, for example, as the Jebel Naksh, which form an integral part of the physical structure of the Qatar Peninsula itself and have always, in fact, been an equally integral part of the Sheikhdom.

"[8] In the following weeks, a British communique stated that they "could not agree to deprive the Sheikh of any portion of the main block of that peninsula".