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Chalcopyrite from
Dungash Mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dungash Mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:814123
Long-form Identifier:1:3:814123:1
GUID (UUID V4):b380dbbe-4331-4e89-87dc-2b1f4f87a97f
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
11.4km (7.1 miles) ⓘMueilha mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
15.5km (9.6 miles) ⓘBarramiya, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
16.6km (10.3 miles) ⓘBarramiya Mine, Barramiya, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
34.2km (21.2 miles) ⓘHamash mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
53.3km (33.1 miles) ⓘDaghbag deposit (El-Daghbag-I gold mine), Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
55.3km (34.4 miles) ⓘAtud mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
73.7km (45.8 miles) ⓘHanglaliya, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
86.5km (53.8 miles) ⓘSukari gold mine, Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
86.6km (53.8 miles) ⓘHomr Akarem, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
93.6km (58.2 miles) ⓘUm Rus Mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
405–424 Origin and Evolution of the Um Egat and Dungash Orogenic Gold Deposits, Egyptian Eastern Desert:...Geology, Benha Faculty of Science, Benha 13518, Egypt A. K. EL-SHAZLY,† Geology Department, Marshall...Department, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt AND R. J. BODNAR Department of Geosciences, Virginia...zone-related, mesothermal gold deposits of Um Egat and Dungash in the Egyptian Eastern Desert are hosted by greenschist...includes pyrite, arsenopyrite ± pyrrhotite ± chalcopyrite ± galena; gold occurs both in the veins, usually
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    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...the new targets for gold in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. In most of these targets, gold displays a bimodal
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Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Benha, Egypt AN 1Department US Basem A. Zoheir1,2,*, Peter...Gold has been mined in the Eastern Desert T of Egypt, in the northwestern part of the ANS, for more than...deposit. Today, Sukari is the single major producing mine in US the Eastern Desert but many other significant...(or) pyrrhotite, in addition to subordinate chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galenea and tetrahedrite as well...Distribution and genetic characteristics, Eastern Desert, Egypt, Neoproterozoic, Accretionary orogen, Arabian-Nubian
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for the Wall Rock Alterations of Shear Zone at Dungash Gold Mining, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt1 Osama...Research Center, Al-Behoos str. 12622, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt *e-mail: kassemo1@yahoo.com Received September 26...in wall rocks alterations of shear zone at Dungash gold mine. Furthermore, it shows the relationship between...objects during progressive deformation. The Dungash gold mine area is situated in an EW-trending quartz...metasedimentary host rocks in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. These rocks are associated with the major geologic
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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...Nb–Ta and U mineralization in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Anorogenic gold mineralization connected with post-orogenic
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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)
mineralization in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt Mohamed A. Abd El-Wahed, Hassan Harraz, Mohamed...mineralization in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...Mineralization in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt PT Mohamed A. Abd El-Wahed1, Hassan Harraz1 and...Tanta 31527, Egypt 2 Centamin Egypt Ltd, 361 El-Horreya Road, Sedi Gaber, Alexandria, Egypt RI Abstract...NNW-oriented sinistral shear zones in Kurdeman gold mine area, within steeply dipping NW- and SE dipping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Genesis of the Samut gold deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt Basem Zoheir, Matthew Steele-MacInnis, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg...Genesis of the Samut gold deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt, Ore Geology Reviews (2018), doi: https://doi.org/10...Genesis of the Samut gold deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt Basem Zoheir1,2*, Matthew Steele-MacInnis3, Dieter...Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Benha, Egypt of Geosciences, University of Kiel, Ludewig-Meyn...vein-type gold mineralization in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, which shares many geologic features with other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Betam gold deposit, south Eastern Desert, Egypt: mass-volume-mineralogical changes and stable isotope...lode fields along the western side of the Red Sea in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan were worked out by the...for thousands of years. In the Eastern Desert of Egypt, numerous but small gold deposits are generally...different directions. Gold mineralisation at the Betam mine area, south Eastern Desert, is related to a series...mineralisation (pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, subordinate chalcopyrite and gold) is closely associated with a conspicuous
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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...Robertson Research Ltd. and its subsidiaries, Minex-Egypt and Minex-Sudan, became accessible through archives
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wall rock alteration at Kurdeman gold mine area, Eastern Desert, Egypt A. M. El-Makky, K. I. Khalil and I...mineralization of Kurdeman in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is hosted by greenschist facies metavolcanic and...Late Neoproterozoic rocks of the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Most of these occurrences are epigenetic hydrothermal...1993). Very little is known about the Kurdeman gold mine area, which is a site of historical ancient and...potential. Geological setting The Kurdeman gold mine area is located at the intersection of latitude
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...Orogenic gold Um El Tuyor Eastern Desert Allaqi Egypt A B S T R A C T Although gold production from orogenic...western side of the Red Sea in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. In the Eastern Desert of Egypt, numerous but...than a hundred locations in the Eastern Desert of Egypt during the Dynastic, Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
200, 2017 Fe isotope fractionation between chalcopyrite and dissolved Fe during hydrothermal recrystallization:...alterations of shear zone at Dungash gold mining, central Eastern Desert, Egypt—Osama M.K. Kassem, Said H...ophiolitic rocks in the Arabian-Nubian Shield of Egypt: Sources and compositions of the carbonating fluid...geochemical mapping of the Mount Pinatubo-Dizon Mine area, the Philippines: Implications for mineral...ancient gold mine in the Wadi El Quleib area of the Allaqi region, south Eastern Desert of Egypt: Implications
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contain gold, pyrite, and galena in addition to chalcopyrite and both hypogene and supergene haematite and...concentration of gold in the eastern region of Cameroon (red rectangle not to scale). (c) Geological map of the...sinistral faults, sphalerite, rare pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, galena, and haematite. The locally parallel...and Zn. Cassiterite (for Sn), GaAs (for As), chalcopyrite (for Fe, S, and Cu), CdS (for Cd), HgS (for...sphalerite (for Zn) were used as standards. The chalcopyrite standards was run after every 10 analyses to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt Yasser Abd El-Rahman a a b Sharkawi & Amir Said...Giza, 12613, Egypt b Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt c Department...and metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, International Geology Review, 54:16, 1870-1884...and metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt Yasser Abd El-Rahmana,b*, Ali Polatc , Yildirim...Giza 12613, Egypt; b Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt; c Department
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arc–back-arc system in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence from supra-subduction zone ophiolites...Department of Geology, Minia University, El-Minia 61519, Egypt a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Neoproterozoic ANS Ophiolites Boninite Arc–back-arc Egypt a b s t r a c t Ophiolites are widely distributed...distributed in the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt, occurring as clusters in the northern (NCEDO) and southern...oceanic lithosphere.” The ANS is exposed around the Red Sea in the western Arabian Peninsula, southern Israel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Fawakhir area, Eastern Desert, Egypt B.A. Zoheira*, R.A. Creaserb and B. Lehmannc a ...Geology, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt; bEarth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of...geographic map, as well as the oldest geologic and mine map. The Fawakhir–El Sid district is part of a regional...pyrite-arsenopyrite-pyrrhotite-sphalerite-galena-chalcopyrite-electrum plus a number of tellurides of Ag,...gold mineralization; Fawakhir area; Wadi Hammamat; Egypt Introduction The East African Orogen is an extensive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gabal El Mueilha Area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: An Overview on the Rare Metals Mohamed OBEID,...intrusion of muscovite granite at El Mueilha tin mine area. Detailed geochemical prospecting for the rare...draining the mineralized zones of El Mueilha tin mine and near the SW albitized parts of the post-collision...Mohamed, 1992) dissecting the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Fig. 2). One of these Fig. 1 Location map of the...metalsbearing granitic intrusions in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. 1. Hawashia, 2. Igla, 3. Abu Dabbab, 4. Nuweibi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rutile as well as trace amounts of limonite, chalcopyrite and covellite. Arsenopyrite is a main ore mineral...hematite, rutile, trace amounts of limonite, chalcopyrite and covellite. Polished thin sections reveal...well as to mesothermal gold deposits in Egypt (Um Egat and Dungash, zohEır et al. 2008). The ore-forming...arsenopyrite, pyrite, ilmenite, hematite, rutile, and chalcopyrite and secondary (supergene) limonite, covellite...turbidite-hosted gold quartz vein deposits, Wattle Cully mine, central Victoria, Australia. – Econ. Geol. 90:
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
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
Book
in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. Originally our goal was to...vein-type gold mineralization in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The following contribution, by C. Marignac, D.E...with a focus on deposits in Eritrea, Sudan, and Egypt. The second paper is by M. Bouabdellah, M. Hibti...Vein-Type Gold Mineralization in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints. . ....Mauritania, Algeria, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt, and Morocco. Geological aspects of the major cratons
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in the Abu Zawal (Fatira) Area, Eastern Desert, Egypt Refaey M. El-Wardany 1,2 , Jiangang Jiao 1, *, Basem...in the Abu Zawal (Fatira) Area, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Minerals 2023, 13, 489. https://doi.org/10.3390/...Assiut 71524, Egypt Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt Institute...mineralization in the Abu Zawal (Fatira) mine area, North Eastern Desert of Egypt, is related to porphyritic felsite...replacements are characterized by disseminations of chalcopyrite, pyrite, and rare gold. Alteration mineralogy
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convert, refine and treat whatever you want to mine. From the initial evaluation and planning to the... Section ae 7 1 Introduction 2 3 Algeria Egypt 15 18 4 Gulf States 27 5 tlrag 28 6 7 Jordan...Tunisia 49 51 146 Yemen 53 17 18 19 The Red Sea Israel References 55 56 oF 20 List of Maps ...at the end. A special emphasis has been given to Egypt because of the relatively large number of documents...Solomon's mines are nothing but an ancient copper mine exploited by the ancient Egyptians. A temple dedicated
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· 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 JesĂșs...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
 
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