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Chrysocolla from
Wadi Araba, Suez Governorate, Egypt


Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wadi Araba, Suez Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:717682
Long-form Identifier:1:3:717682:1
GUID (UUID V4):87c206f4-81f4-4b14-ab55-262b7bd2a102
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
88.6km (55.1 miles) ⓘAraba Formation, Um Bogma area, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt
88.7km (55.1 miles) ⓘUm Bogma Formation, Um Bogma area, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt
99.3km (61.7 miles) ⓘSerabit el-Khadim, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE DISCOVERY GERTRUDE OF NICKEL LABIB IN EGYPT. NASSIM. ABSTRACT. The onlyknownoccurrence of nickelin...lengthis about200m andit risesgradually fromthebank of Wadi Ab Swayelto a heightof i7 m at its southeastern...Geologyof Egypt, as beinga coppermine only (10), and, whencitingthe occurrence of nickelin Egypt,mentionsonly...NE, the strikebeing THE DISCOVERYOF NICKEL IN EGYPT. 145 128ø (Fig. 1). This lenticularamphiboliteis...iron ores are accessoryconstituents. 0•rtt•/• Wadi Ab Swayel Alluvium Fro. 1. Plan of Ab Swayel Mine
Book
· Yasser Abd El-Rahman Editors The Geology of Egypt Regional Geology Reviews Series Editors Roland...Geology of Egypt 123 • Editors Zakaria Hamimi Department of Geology Benha University Benha, Egypt Jesús...El-Barkooky Department of Geology Cairo University Giza, Egypt Harald Fritz Department of Geology and Environment...El-Rahman Department of Geology Cairo University Giza, Egypt ISSN 2364-6438 ISSN 2364-6446 (electronic) Regional...by: Prof. M.A. Abd El-Wahed, Tanta University, Egypt) This Springer imprint is published by the registered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbocretes Oxicretes chrysocolla hemimorphite chrysocolla chrysocolla plancheite silicate Silicacretes...CT opaline-CT cristobalite amorphous matter chrysocolla plancheite hemimorphite silicate Silicacretes...malachite chrysocolla plancheite chalcedony hemimorphite willemite hemimorphite chrysocolla gypsum...order of abundance) oxicrete plancheite chrysocolla chrysocolla shattuckite plancheite opal-CT atacamite...20 Ma) warm malachite malachite rosasite chrysocolla plancheite silicate Silicacretes Morphoclimate
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SeheCI. Bernd. Egyptian metalworking and tools. I. Egypt. Metalworking. ancient period. I. Title. h~4' .Ol)'O()...ancient Egypt jJaKe 66 Chronology Predynastic 5500 - 3050 BC 5500 - 4000 Lower Egypt Upper Egypt 4000...3500 Lower Egypt Upper Egypt 3500 - 3300 Lower Egypt Upper Egypt 3500 - 3050 Lower Egypt 3300 - 3150...3150 Upper Egypt A. Merirnda Ba~I,lrian F,IVUI11 "Omari }\ Arnr.uiun (Naqudu I) "Ornari B Early (in/can...Early Egypt Evolutionary stages similar to those seen in Mesopotamia may be observed in early Egypt. Archaeological
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smelting sites. These are located mainly in the area of Wadi Jariye in the north, at Khirbet en-Nahas, at and...metallurgical remains in Timna (Israel) and Sinai (Egypt), at a time when the political conditions made it...had been obtained. Faynan, on the eastern side of Wadi Arabah, lies in a semi-arid region. This question...well as the Late Neolithic settlement mound (Tell Wadi Faynan). Dr. Mohammed Najjar has been the co-director...settlements (Wadi Ghwair 1 and Wadi Fidan A) and the Late Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age settlement (Wadi Fidan
Journal (issue)
Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions Gem Silica/Chrysocolla druzy in matrix. Photo courtesy Erin Balzrette...MINERAL SPECIMENS This ne, large cluster of chrysocolla stalactites is from the 1997 nd in the Ray mine...treated to the discovery of a huge quantity of chrysocolla stalactite specimens. They were encountered in...blue-green specimens of chrysocolla. Instead of the usual solid chrysocolla-filled seam, this exposure...developed long, thick, sometimes curving fingers of chrysocolla from the copper-rich descending solutions. There
Report (issue)
(1973, The copper and manganese prospects of Wadi Araba: Jordan Nat. Resources Autharity Rept. on Phase...identified in the vicinity of Fayniin on the east side of Wadi al 'Arabah. Other studies by the Mining Division...Structure ---------------------------------------Wadi al 'Arabah-Jordan Rift ----------------Nubo-Arabian...pattern, northeast Jordan ------------------9. The Wadi al 'Arabah-Jordan Rift at its lovvest point __ 10...10. Upper Cretaceous rocks, vvestern edge of Wadi al 'Arabah-Jordan Rift ----------------------------Paleogeographic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the ancient copper mines and furnaces of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan, were analysed using atomic...the around the ancient metallurgical centre of the Wadi Faynan in the Jordanian Desert, examines Khirbet...earlier (Al-Najjar ., 1990). This evidence makes the Wadi Faynan one of the few places in the world which...Europe. There remain in the desert landscape of the Wadi Faynan >250 copper mines, adits and mining galleries...signiÂŽcance of metal contamination of the environment, the Wadi Faynan region with an average annual rainfall of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mongul Cu-Mo-Au prospect in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: from a mid-Cryogenian continental arc to Ediacaran...Mongul CuMo-Au prospect in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: from a mid-Cryogenian continental arc to Ediacaran...Mongul Cu-Mo-Au prospect in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: from a mid-Cryogenian continental arc to Ediacaran...Faculty of Science, Cairo University, 12613 Giza, Egypt. d AC CE P TE D Senckenberg Naturhistorische...Wetait, 1998, Botros, 2002). The Eastern Desert of Egypt constitutes the northwest extension of ANS (Fig
Book (volume)
Precambrian crust of Saudi Arabia, the eastern Sudan and Egypt consists of abundant granites and granodiorites...basement of Saudi Arabia, the Eastern Deserts of Egypt and Sudan, and northern Ethiopia on the one hand...than the rocks of the Eastern Deserts of Sudan and Egypt and that the predominantly volcanic assemblages...Mitchell, 1976; Frisch and Al-Shanti, 1977) and in Egypt (Garson and Shalaby, 1976), as well as Bou Azzer...evolution of these regions. In the Red Sea Hills of Egypt and Sudan there are very numerous occurrences of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu-silicates mainly chrysocolla (Chr) in Timna Formation shale; d. Chrysocolla (Chr) replacing a quartz...Paratacamite Djurleite, Covellite Malachite Chrysocolla, Plancheite Covellite, Paratacamite Malachite...(Fig. 3b). Replacement of silicate minerals by chrysocolla in the sandstones is shown in Fig. 3d. Secondary...oxidation of Cu-sulphides (malachite, paratacamite, chrysocolla etc.); b. δ–δ diagram for Cu(II)–Cu(I) mineral...Cambrian sandstones Copper silicates (mainly chrysocolla, plancheite) are the major ore minerals in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alunite, Cu silicates mostly represented by chrysocolla, and colloform structures composed of successive...is found at Agoujgal. Cu silicates, probably chrysocolla, rarely replace malachite. Tennantite is more...silicates at Tazalaght and of brochantite and chrysocolla at Agoujgal suggests the local circulation of...physical-chemical regime during the late Quaternary in the Wadi Araba, southern Jordan: International Journal of Earth
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SemaTawytefnakht of the court of King Psamtik I of Egypt about 2,500 years ago. Mr. Bothmer began searching...finally learning it was privately owned in Luxor, Egypt. For four years he negotiated for the remainder...Alabastron, a locality near Thebes on the upper Nile in Egypt, near King Tutankhamen’s tomb. Some Colorado cities...occupant as Khnum Hotep, ruler of a district of Egypt under Sesostris II about 1900 b.c. Most of the paintings...how to secure the metal from its ores. In ancient Egypt, vessels of antimony were used to carry water from
Report (issue)
Weathered Precambrian conglomerate at Wadi Saramuj Altered rocks in Wadi Shureh 10 10 20 23 26 28 35 38...Copper mines and smelters at Wadi Feinan and Wadi Dana 102 Copper mines at Wadi Khalid 115 Copper smelters...iron mine and smelter in the Ajlun District 128 Wadi sand and concentrates from the Al'Aqabah region...size of fraction of wadi sand or talus used for analysis 147 Composition of wadi sand and talus related...the Wadi Rum area to the northeast of Al 'Aqabah 164 Composition related to size fraction of wadi sand
Book
magnetite is generally not an abundant ore mineral. Chrysocolla and malachite, formed by supergene alteration...a few places. The secondary copper minerals chrysocolla and Base- and precious metal mineralization...of Gulf, N.C. The first commercial shaft was the Egypt mine at Cumnock in the 1850’s, and shortly thereafter...documented from at least two other rifts: the Gulf of Suez (Moustafa, 1976) and the Rio Grande Rift (Baldridge...Seismic 26: 53-62. Block Faulting in the Gulf of Suez. Sth EGPC exploration seminar, Cairo, 1976, 19 pp
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coast in the south, 12 with the exception of Egypt. This may be due to the fact that in the sedimentary...turquoise from Sinai, malachite, atacamite, chrysocolla, plancheite, emerald green feldspar amazonite...Anatolia, the Caucasus and Iran on the one hand, and Egypt, on the other. The material evidence for an independent...on one hand from comparatively pure copper from Wadi Arabah deposits, and on the other from complex copper–arsenic–...(1994) reported exposed smelting sites in southern Wadi Arabah, and Abdel-Motelib et al. (2012) found archaeological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chrisstanleyite Christite Chromite Chrysoberyl Chrysocolla Chrysoprase Cinnabarite K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH...Atlantic beaches of Brazil and the Rosetta sand spit, Egypt (Clarke, 1983). Titanium placer deposits cover vast...France, Upper Cretaceous: Agbaja, Nigeria, Paleogene: Wadi Fatima, Saudi-Arabia (also interpreted as an Fig...Lower to Middle Cambrian White Fine Sandstone at Wadi Dana, southern Jordan. Continuous thinly-bedded... The green staining is due to malachite and chrysocolla (see also Fig.11.17). e) Massive Mn ore with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chrisstanleyite Christite Chromite Chrysoberyl Chrysocolla Chrysoprase Cinnabarite K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH...Atlantic beaches of Brazil and the Rosetta sand spit, Egypt (Clarke, 1983). Titanium placer deposits cover vast...France, Upper Cretaceous: Agbaja, Nigeria, Paleogene: Wadi Fatima, Saudi-Arabia (also interpreted as an Fig...Lower to Middle Cambrian White Fine Sandstone at Wadi Dana, southern Jordan. Continuous thinly-bedded... The green staining is due to malachite and chrysocolla (see also Fig.11.17). e) Massive Mn ore with
Book
Chalcolithic hearth possibly used for smelting, from Wadi Madsus, Feinan 128 Early Bronze Age furnace or...minerals, chalcocite, brochantite and bornite. The Wadi Timna itself is a great erosional circus that has...limestone towering many hundreds of metres above the wadi floor. Beneath these the white sandstone lies exposed...Egyptian period is attested all around the edges of the Wadi Timna and extensive field survey and aerial reconnaissance...followed freshly exposed ore where it outcropped in the wadi sides. At this stage the horizontally-bedded ore
Report (issue)
during his visit to tunnels in the manganese horizon, Wadi Dana . . 2. Packsack light-weight drill of the Special...Slate, Argyll. WEBSTER, R., EsQ., M.M., F.G.A. Chrysocolla from Van Dyke Mine, Arizona, U.S.A. ; almandine...followed by examination and analysis o f geochemical, wadi concentrate, and mineral samples in the Mineral... Exploration, to include geochemical survey and wadi concentrate sampling by two geologists, started...develop­ ment work on the ma11ganese deposits of Wadi Dana and tl1e iro11 deposits of Ajloun. The Mobile
Book (edition)
Governate. Also a city on the Mediterranean Sea. BT Egypt Alexandrian North American provincial series. Lower...Aswan Governate in SE Egypt. Also a city on the Nile and name of dam. BT Egypt NT Kom Ombo asymmetric...Bank Bahariya Oasis In the Libyan Desert in W. BT Egypt Bahia State in E Brazil. CO S182000S082000 W0372000W0464000...Pennsylvanian i i Cairngorm Mountains Governorate in NE Egypt. Also a cit 7 ile City Cadiz As of 1981...chrysoberyl BA oxides BT minerals SA alexandrite chrysocolla BA sheet silicates silicates BA BT minerals
Book (edition)
Governate. Also a city on the Mediterranean Sea. BT Egypt Alexandrian North American provincial series. Lower...Aswan Governate in SE Egypt. Also a city on the Nile and name of dam. BT Egypt NT Kom Ombo asymmetric... Bahariya Oasis In the Libyan Desert in W Egypt. BT Egypt SA Libyan Desert badlands Generic term for...Nile River, coextensive with the governorate in NE Egypt. BT Egypt upper Paleozoic Paleozoic California...chrysoberyl BA oxides BT minerals SA alexandrite chrysocolla BA sheet silicates BA silicates BT minerals SA
Journal (volume)
a report on the properties of the Oilfields of Egypt. G. D. Delprat has resigned the general managership...pected first to redeem by irrigation. Just as Egypt has still its Nile and the Sahara once its Congo...... Eastern Pioneer Company W. F. Hume (ra.u.) Egypt, Oilfields of R'-P"''' Alannah -, Eiken H. V. Wmchell...The latter are men who team work in Gallipoli, Egypt, France, and Belgium, and although some of these...with smaller amounts of of malachite, cuprite, chrysocolla, and other compounds, but the chief mineral of
 
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