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Um Ara, Eastern Desert, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt

Latitude: 22°39'N
Longitude: 33°49'E
Volcanic and metavolcanic rocks intruded by the Um Ara granites, a larger oval-shaped monzogranite pluton and a smaller alkali-feldspar microgranite emplaced at its northern contact. Both granites are peraluminous to metaluminous. The U- and Th-bearing alkali-feldspar granite is cut by pegmatite veins and locally abundant veinlets of purple and colourless fluorite. Secondary uranium minerals occur as disseminations, as aggregates and as cavity fillings.

References

- Abd El-Naby, H.H. (2009): High and low temperature alteration of uranium and thorium minerals, Um Ara granites, south Eastern Desert, Egypt. Ore Geology Reviews 35, 436-446.

Mineral List

Albite
β-Uranophane
Calcite
Coffinite
Columbite
Fluorite
Galena
Hematite
Ilmenite
Kaolinite
Limonite
'Manganese Oxides'
Microcline
var: Amazonite
'Monazite'
Polylithionite
Quartz
Spessartine
Thorite
var: Uranothorite
Thorogummite
Uraninite
Uranophane
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon


25 entries listed. 18 valid minerals.

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