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Quartz from
El Sid Mine, Qift area, Qena Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view El Sid Mine, Qift area, Qena Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:476630
Long-form Identifier:1:3:476630:8
GUID (UUID V4):9a5a823e-0b02-405b-b1c1-e10898003428
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
7.2km (4.5 miles) ⓘFawakhir ophiolite, Qift area, Qena Governorate, Egypt
18.5km (11.5 miles) ⓘAtalla Mine, Qena Governorate, Egypt
32.9km (20.4 miles) ⓘKab Amiri, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
36.4km (22.6 miles) ⓘEl Erediya pegmatites, El Erediya area, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
38.2km (23.7 miles) ⓘEl Erediya area, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
40.3km (25.0 miles) ⓘGabal Um Halham, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
44.0km (27.4 miles) ⓘWadi Kariem, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
44.9km (27.9 miles) ⓘGidami deposit, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
49.0km (30.4 miles) ⓘSemna mine, Bir Semna, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
50.4km (31.3 miles) ⓘBir Semna, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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setting on the genesis of gold mineralization in Egypt N.S. Botros PII: DOI: Reference: S0169-1368(15)00102-X...setting on the genesis of gold mineralization in Egypt, Ore Geology Reviews (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...setting on the genesis of gold mineralization in Egypt N. S. Botros* Exploration Geologist AC CE P TE...NU SC R IP T Abstract The Eastern Desert of Egypt is well known as a gold-mining district since ancient...serpentinites along thrust faults and in sutures, quartz veins hosted in the metavolcano- sedimentary assemblage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Granitoid-associated gold mineralization in Egypt: a case study from the Atalla mine Basem Zoheir 1,2 & Fatma Deshesh...Deshesh 3 & Curt Broman 4 & Iain Pitcairn 4 & Ahmed El-Metwally 3 & Shabaan Mashaal 3 Received: 30 April...GmbH Germany 2017 Abstract Gold-bearing sulfide-quartz veins cutting mainly through the Atalla monzogranite...monzogranite intrusion in the Eastern Desert of Egypt are controlled by subparallel NE-trending brittle shear...sulfur isotopic values in ophiolitic rocks. The Au-quartz veins are characterized by abundant CO2 and H2O
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pan-African thrusting in the Central Eastern Desert, Egypt T.J. Fowler a,*, A.F. Osman b a Geology Department...Department, Ain Shams Uni6ersity, Abassiyya, Cairo, Egypt Received 14 December 1998; received in revised...analysis of the Wadi Um Had area in the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt reveals the presence of another...Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Egypt; Precambrian; Gneisses; Dome; Thrusts; Escape tectonics... 1976; Ries et al., 1983; Sturchio et al., 1983; El-Ramly et al., 1984; ElGaby et al., 1984; Habib et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold mineralization in the Fawakhir area, Eastern Desert, Egypt B.A. Zoheira*, R.A. Creaserb and B. Lehmannc...Geology, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt; bEarth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of...arsenopyrite from mesothermal gold-quartz veins in the ancient Egyptian Fawakhir–El Sid gold mining district in...as well as the oldest geologic and mine map. The Fawakhir–El Sid district is part of a regional NNWtrending...sequence. The ore mineralogy of the mineralized quartz veins includes pyrite-arsenopyrite-pyrrhotite-
Book
Zakaria Hamimi · Ahmed El-Barkooky · Jesús Martínez Frías · Harald Fritz · Yasser Abd El-Rahman Editors The...The Geology of Egypt Regional Geology Reviews Series Editors Roland Oberhänsli, Potsdam, Brandenburg...require when beginning investigations in a particular area and are encouraged to include as much information... Zakaria Hamimi • Ahmed El-Barkooky Jesús Martínez Frías • Harald Fritz • Yasser Abd El-Rahman Editors The...Geology of Egypt 123 • Editors Zakaria Hamimi Department of Geology Benha University Benha, Egypt Jesús
Report (chapter)
2015 Fluid evolution in the El-Sid gold deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt BASEM ZOHEIR1* & ROBERT MORITZ2...Geology, Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Egypt 2 Earth and Environmental Sciences, University...zoheir@gmail.com) Abstract: Auriferous quartz (+carbonate) veins in the El-Sid mine cut through the western margin...developed late in the deformational history of the area. Field and microscopic studies suggest two distinct...stages. The stable isotope signature of the vein quartz and calcite suggest mixed magmatic and metamorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Inclusions in Quartz B. A. ZOHEIR, Department of Geology, Benha Faculty of Science, Benha 13518, Egypt A. K...K. EL-SHAZLY,† Geology Department, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia 25725 H. HELBA, K....Department, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt AND R. J. BODNAR Department of Geosciences, Virginia...Pan-African age. Both deposits comprise boudinaged quartz veins that show evidence of incipient recrystallization...between 400° and 250°C. Fluid inclusions in vein quartz occur in clusters, or along trails. Three types
Book
Dietrich Klemm Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia Geoarchaeology of the Ancient Gold Mining...a joint project with the University of Assiut, Egypt, our attention was drawn to this aborted program...and ascribing them to the chronologies of Ancient Egypt and Nubia • Investigating the geology of ore deposits...out to spread far beyond the southern borders of Egypt and well into the Nubian territories of NE Sudan...deposits but also a large number of ones in which gold quartz ores previously collected from wadi sediments had
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt Yasser Abd El-Rahman a a b Sharkawi & Amir Said c d...e f , Mohamed El- a a Department of Geology, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt b Ministry of...Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences...article: Yasser Abd El-Rahman , Ali Polat , Yildirim Dilek , Tim M. Kusky , Mohamed El-Sharkawi & Amir Said...and metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, International Geology Review, 54:16, 1870-1884
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Benha, Egypt AN 1Department US Basem A. Zoheir1,2,*, Peter...gold resources mainly in structurally-controlled quartz±carbonate veins that are best classified as late...Gold has been mined in the Eastern Desert T of Egypt, in the northwestern part of the ANS, for more than...CR from the El Sid orogenic gold deposit. Today, Sukari is the single major producing mine in US the...aqueous-carbonic with most measured δ18O of mineralized quartz ranging from 8 ‰ to 15 ‰, δ13C for associated carbonate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold deposits of Egypt Nagy Shawky Botros* Egyptian Geological Survey, Cairo, Egypt Received 14 August...located in the Nubian Shield have been known in Egypt since Predynastic times. Despite the fact that these...A three-fold classification of gold deposits of Egypt is offered here in harmony with this evolutionary... which constituted the main target for gold in Egypt since Pharaonic times, and disseminated-type mineralization...into consideration as a new target for gold in Egypt. Placer gold deposits are divided into modern placers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALIZED ZONE OF THE EL SID GOLD MINE, EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT A. M. EL-BOUSEtLY, GeologyDepartment...AlexandriaUniversity, Alexandria,Egypt M. F. GHONEIM, GeologyDepartment,Tanta University,Tanta, Egypt A. I. ARSLAN, GeologyDepartment...AlexandriaUniversity,Alexandria,Egypt AND H. Z. HARRAZ GeologyDepartment,Tanta University,Tanta,Egypt Gold occurrences...contiguousveinletsandoffshoots forminga veinzoneover Egypt. The E1 Sid-Fawakhirarea (Fig. 1) is among 100 m thick...areacomprises their strikeandabout450 m alongtheir dip (El Ramly varietiesof igneousand metamorphicrocksof the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold mineralisation at the Betam mine, south Eastern Desert, Egypt Basem A. Zoheir Received: 16 February...southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, is related to a series of milky quartz veins along a NNW-trending shear...the area. Although slightly sheared and boudinaged within the shear zone, the auriferous quartz veins...folds and asymmetrical strain shadows around the quartz lenses suggests that vein emplacement took place...chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and gold. Gold occurs in the quartz veins and adjacent wallrocks as inclusions in pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/loi/tigr20 Ediacaran (~ 600 Ma) orogenic gold in Egypt: age of the Atalla gold mineralization and its geological...Jian-Wei Zi, Brent Turrin, Fatma Deshesh & Ahmed El-Metwally To cite this article: Basem Zoheir, Mark...Fatma Deshesh & Ahmed El-Metwally (2018): Ediacaran (~ 600 Ma) orogenic gold in Egypt: age of the Atalla...ARTICLE Ediacaran (~ 600 Ma) orogenic gold in Egypt: age of the Atalla gold mineralization and its geological...Ahmed El-Metwallye a Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt; bInstitute
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zone-related gold mineralization in Egypt: A case study from the Um El Tuyor mine, south Eastern Desert Basem...Geology, Benha Faculty of Science, 13518 Benha, Egypt A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...Keywords: Shear zone Orogenic gold Um El Tuyor Eastern Desert Allaqi Egypt A B S T R A C T Although gold production...of the Red Sea in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. In the Eastern Desert of Egypt, numerous but small gold...gold deposits are generally related to auriferous quartz veins commonly associated with brittle–ductile
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metapyroclastics at Gold Deposit of the Mahd Ad Dahab Area, Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia1 Osama M. K. Kassema...Research Center, AlBehoos str., 12622 Dokki, Cairo, Egypt *email: kassemol@yahoo.com Abstract—The present...relationship between tectonic contacts in Mahd Ad Dahab area and to provide a meaningful hypothesis relating...and localization of gold occurrences in the study area was envisaged based on the different styles of microstruc...tures and the major deformation phases affecting the area. The detailed petrographical and mineralogical investigations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amr Abd El-Raouf 1, * , Fikret Doğru 2 , Kamal Abdelrahman 3 , Mohammed S. Fnais 3 , Ahmed El Manharawy...2 3 4 * Citation: El-Raouf, A.A.; Doğru, F.; Abdelrahman, K.; Fnais, M.S.; El Manharawy, A.; Amer...Science, Zagazig University, Sharkia Governorate, Zagazig 44519, Egypt Construction, Oltu Vocational College...e rocks around the Wadi El-Saqia area in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt. Our approach combines airborne...structural orientations are prevalent in the studied area, with depths ranging from less than 50 m to about
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluids in Atud gold deposit, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt Amr Abdelnasser & Mustafa Kumral To cite this article:...fluids in Atud gold deposit, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, International Geology Review To link to this article:...fluids in Atud gold deposit, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt Amr Abdelnassera,b and Mustafa Kumrala a Geological...Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Electron microprobe analyses...complex of Gabal Atud (Central Eastern Desert, Egypt). The gold can be classified as electrum (63.6–74
Report (chapter)
deposits and their fluids from the USA, Brazil, Egypt, Slovakia and Bulgaria and numerical modelling aimed...(1965) recorded high CO2 in fluid inclusions in gold-quartz veins and suggested that its abundance might be...(1967) recognized CO2bearing fluid inclusions in quartz veins and summarized the results of other similar...soon after development to fluid inclusions in gold-quartz veins. Early analyses of vein fluids of orogenic...and aqueous types of fluid inclusions in the vein quartz, both of which have low salinity and homogenization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Um Garayat gold deposit, Wadi Allaqi district, Egypt Basem Zoheir 1,2 & Ashraf Emam 3 & Iain K. Pitcairn...deposit. Ore microscopy and BSE investigations of quartz veins show blocky arsenopyrite and pyrite replaced...disseminated in quartz veins. The δ34S values of blocky pyrite and pyrrhotite in quartz veins define a...diagenetic sulfides. Hydrothermal carbonate in quartz veins and wallrock have nearly constant values...deposit . Wadi Allaqi . South Eastern Desert of Egypt . Isotope C . O and Sr data of carbonate . EPMA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold-bearing sulfide minerals, El Sid Gold Mine, Eastern Desert, Egypt A. M. EI-Bouseily, M. A. EI-Dahhar...University, Egypt Abstract. Gold deposits at E1 Sid are confined to hydrothermal quartz veins which contain...in the mineralized zone either as free gold in quartz gangue or dissolved in the sulfide minerals. Ore-microscopic...their strike and for some 455 m along their dip (El Ramly et al. 1970). The mineralized veins contain...inclusions occur in these sulfides as well as in gangue quartz. The average Au content of the mineralized zone
Book (volume)
BINDA, H . R . B L A N K , C . B . DUBOIS, O . R . EL-MAHDY, H . A . HAKIM, A . A . A . H U S S E I N ...calc-alkaline granites are not evenly distributed and their area 1 2 D. Β. S T O E S E R and J. E . E L L I O...1977). The Arabian portion of the shield occupies an area of approximately 2 770,000 km and is composed of...of approximately 40% granitoid plutonic rocks (quartz diorite and tonalité to granite) and most of the...suggests had an early phase of gabbro, diorite, and quartz that evolved crustal material was involved in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(http://www.scirp.org/journal/nr) Mineral Industry in Egypt-Part I: Metallic Mineral Commodities Abdel-Zaher...University, Cairo, Egypt, Geological Survey and Mineral Resources Authority, Cairo, Egypt. E-mail: abdel...31st, 2011. ABSTRACT The mineral potential in Egypt is quite high. Almost all sorts of industrial minerals...commodities exist in commercial amounts. However, Egypt imports many of the mineral commodities needed for...of the mining industry in Egypt. This is why the mining technology in Egypt is not very far from being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Gold in Egypt: Does the future get worse or better? N.S. Botros PII: DOI: Reference:...Please cite this article as: Botros, N.S., Gold in Egypt: Does the future get worse or better?, Ore Geology...journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT GOLD IN EGYPT: DOES THE FUTURE GET WORSE OR BETTER? N. S. Botros*... NU SC R IP T Within the Eastern Desert of Egypt, there are more than hundred vein-type gold deposits...sulphide-rich quartz veins, which generally occur in the lower levels of the worked out auriferous quartz veins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jürgen Loizenbauer The Sukari Gold Mine, Eastern Desert—Egypt: structural setting, mineralogy and fluid... Springer-Verlag 2004 Abstract The Sukari gold mine (18.8 Mt @ 2.14 g/t Au) is located 15 km west of...coast in the southern central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The vein-type deposit is hosted in Late Neoproterozoic...1.5–2 kbar. Gold is associated with sulfides in quartz veins and in alteration zones. Pyrite and arsenopyrite...hydrothermal ore deposits. The structural evolution of the area suggests a longterm, cyclic process of repeated
 
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