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Pyrite from
Betam mine, Wadi Allaqi district, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Betam mine, Wadi Allaqi district, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1268511
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1268511:4
GUID (UUID V4):9adea5a9-a643-4682-8a38-c81378cf785e
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
13.4km (8.3 miles) ā“˜Um El Tuyor Mine (Umm Tuyur), Wadi Allaqi District, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
47.6km (29.6 miles) ā“˜Um Egat, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orogenic gold mineralisation at the Betam mine, south Eastern Desert, Egypt Basem A. Zoheir Received: 16 February...2007 Abstract The Betam gold deposit, located in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, is related to a...minor carbonatisation. Ore mineralogy includes pyrite, arsenopyrite and subordinate galena, chalcopyrite...quartz veins and adjacent wallrocks as inclusions in pyrite and arsenopyrite, blebs and globules associated...Presence of refractory gold in arsenopyrite and pyrite is inferred from microprobe analyses. Clustered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration geochemistry of the Betam gold deposit, south Eastern Desert, Egypt: mass-volume-mineralogical...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...granite intrusion. Gold-sulphide mineralisation (pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, subordinate chalcopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zones at El-Hoteib area, South Eastern Desert, Egypt, using remote sensing data analysis Safwat S. Gabr...zones at El-Hoteib area, South Eastern Desert, Egypt, using remote sensing data analysis, Ore Geology...ALTERATION ZONES AT ELHOTEIB AREA, SOUTH EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT, USING REMOTE PT SENSING DATA ANALYSIS SC RI...El-Nozha ElGedida (P.O. Box: 1564 Alf Maskan), Cairo, Egypt. (2) The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute...MA Gold has been mined in the Eastern Desert of Egypt since the time of the Pharaohs, yet the geological
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data of the Um Garayat gold deposit, Wadi Allaqi district, Egypt Basem Zoheir 1,2 & Ashraf Emam 3 &...investigations of quartz veins show blocky arsenopyrite and pyrite replaced in part by pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite...sulfides, and along fractures in pyrite. On the other hand, recrystallized pyrite is disseminated in host m...shows the recrystallized pyrite enriched in most trace elements, while blocky pyrite contains only some traces...disseminated in quartz veins. The Ī“34S values of blocky pyrite and pyrrhotite in quartz veins define a narrow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Abstract The Eastern Desert of Egypt is well known as a gold-mining district since ancient times. Gold mineralization...Nbā€“Ta and U mineralization in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Anorogenic gold mineralization connected with post-orogenic
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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...along reactivated east-west thrust faults in the Allaqi-Sol Hamed block of the South Eastern Desert, with...Eastern Desert gold-bearing veins dominated by pyrite, arsenopyrite, and (or) pyrrhotite, in addition
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...the new targets for gold in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. In most of these targets, gold displays a bimodal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold endowment in the evolution of the Allaqi-Heiani suture, Egypt: A synthesis of geological, structural...Gold endowment in the evolution of the Allaqi-Heiani suture, Egypt: A synthesis of geological, structural... Gold endowment in the evolution of the Allaqi-Heiani suture, Egypt: A synthesis of geological, structural...Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt of Geosciences, University of Kiel, Ludewig-Meyn...Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan 81528, Egypt (*corresponding author: ashrafemam99@hotmail.com)
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)
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...zone Orogenic gold Um El Tuyor Eastern Desert Allaqi Egypt A B S T R A C T Although gold production from...western side of the Red Sea in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. In the Eastern Desert of Egypt, numerous but...appears as microscopic blebs within arsenopyrite and pyrite or along fractures and grain boundaries in quartz
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 ā€¢ 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...which gold quartz ores previously collected from wadi sediments had been processed in the same way as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shear-Related Gold Ores in the Wadi Hodein Shear Belt, South Eastern Desert of Egypt: Analysis of Remote Sensing...Shear-Related Gold Ores in the Wadi Hodein Shear Belt, South Eastern Desert of Egypt: Analysis of Remote Sensing...Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt; mohamed.abdelwahad@science.tanta.edu.eg (M.A.E...Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt; basem.zoheir@ifg.uni-kiel.de Institute of Geosciences...controlling gold-bearing quartz veins in the Wadi Hodein area in Egypt. In this study, enhancement algorithms
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
North Hamisana shear zone, South Eastern Desert, Egypt: The integrated ļ¬eld, structural, Landsat 7 ETM...Materials Authority, P. O. Box 530, El Maadi, Cairo, Egypt Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Faculty...metal sulļ¬de Neoproterozoic Arabianā€“Nubian shield Egypt a b s t r a c t The Hamisana shear zone (HSZ),...considered as poorly mapped remote region not only in Egypt but also in Sudan. For these reasons, we integrated...metasediments-metavolcanics) across the South Eastern Desert of Egypt are usually associated with considerable base metal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e g e o r ev Epithermal gold mineralization at Wadi Abu Khushayba, southwestern Jordan M. Al-Hwaiti...Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Benha, Egypt c Mineral Resources, Technical University of Clausthal...Epithermal gold Shear zone Wadi Abu Khushayba Jordan a b s t r a c t The Wadi Abu Khushayba area in southwestern...dispersed hematite laths. Sulļ¬de content is low. Relict pyrite and chalcopyrite occur in comb and cockade quartz...2500 m (hydrostatic). It appears likely that the Wadi Abu Khushayba system represents the near-surface
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, Benha Faculty of Science, Benha 13518, Egypt A. K. EL-SHAZLY,ā€  Geology Department, Marshall...Department, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt AND R. J. BODNAR Department of Geosciences, Virginia...control, and mineralogy. The ore mineralogy includes pyrite, arsenopyrite Ā± pyrrhotite Ā± chalcopyrite Ā± galena;...in the veins, usually included in arsenopyrite, pyrite, or pyrrhotite next to fragments of altered country...Arabian-Nubian shield exposed in the Eastern Desert of Egypt have long been known to host gold, with more than
Book
Ā· Yasser Abd El-Rahman Editors The Geology of Egypt Regional Geology Reviews Series Editors Roland...Geology of Egypt 123 ā€¢ Editors Zakaria Hamimi Department of Geology Benha University Benha, Egypt JesĆŗs...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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Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Acta Geologica...Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 American Journal...Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Annual Review...Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Applied Earth...Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Aquatic Geochemistry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the northern extension of the Nubian Shield in Egypt (e.g., Botros 2004, 2004; Zoheir 2008; Abu-Alam...Sukari mine (Helmy et al. 2004) in the Nubian Shield of Egypt, a 500,000 oz per year gold mine, is one...mining group MANAGEM. The Hassai gold mine, the first commercial gold mine in Sudan, which produced gold from...gold deposits, such as the Galat Sufar and nearby Wadi Doum deposits (Orca Gold), are at the development...The ANS has been segmented by the opening of the Red Sea, which separates the Nubian Shield to the west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Genesis of the Samut gold deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt Basem Zoheir, Matthew Steele-MacInnis, Dieter Garbe-Schƶnberg...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)
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 (63.6ā€“74
Book
Barcelona, Spain Basem Zoheir Benha University Benha, Egypt and Emanuela Schingaro UniversitĆ  degli Studi di...Barcelona, Spain Bari, Italy Mexico City, Mexico Benha, Egypt/Kiel, Germany July 2018 Domenico M. Doronzo Emanuela...Basem Zoheir (Guest Editor): Benha University, Egypt and University of Kiel, Germany Volume 8. Advances...Kamal Abdelrahman The South West Atakor Volcanic District (Hoggar-Algeria): Petrography and Mineralogy from...Soil and Sediments Along the Nile River and Deltaā€”(Egypt): A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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siliceous and potassic) and ore mineral assemblages (pyrite and arsenopyrite with minor amount of galena, sphalerite...Gold occurs as native form and invisible gold in pyrite and arsenopyrite. The major sulfide minerals are...sulfide mineralization. Gold and arsenic content of pyrite grains indicates that gold exists mainly as solid...Sujigtei deposit. High Co/Ni and Mo/Ni ratios of pyrite grain suggest a post-sedimentary or hydrothermal...mineralization processes. Large variation of Ī“34S values of pyrite and arsenopyrite from -2.6 ā€° to 17.2 ā€° indicates
Book
in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. Originally our goal was to...tungsten-gold and lead-zinc-silver deposits of the Tighza district of Morocco, proposing links to granite-related...polymetallic vein deposits of the Edough-Cap de Fer district of Algeria, including fluid inclusion data that...porphyryā€“epithermal transition recorded in the Ouixane iron district of Morocco, using new geochronological and fluid...(Ā±gold Ā±silver) deposits of the famous Bou Azzer district in Morocco, and proposes a long-lived, magmatic-hydrothermal
Report (volume)
Shan Antimony. Punjab ā€” Uses ; ; Amlierst district ; Northern Shan States and ot Slates ; her... Hassan district; Coal, ā€”^lulioduction . Singhbhum . . .... .... iShimoga district Mysore: district...district. . ; Mysore Production and prices. Comparison with South Africa, Australia and Canada, and...Yamethin. Indian localities . . Magnesite. (Salem district. Uses Production. Other occuroie reserves; production...Consumption. Mergui 287 Silver, silver 203 district. Tavoy district. Amherst ern Shun States. Indian Tvvgsten
Report (volume)
above low-water mark, implying and land decidedly sea The altitude of Calcutta the a relative position...whether this indicates a change of level in the sea or in the land.ā€ Quite recently Mr. Vredenburg the...their occurring at a greater height than the present sea-level. A number of other shells were said to be...also July of last of the relative level of sea and land during recent geological times.ā€ Polyzoan...Dujardinā€™s ; determination of virgimca understood, district of his specimens France, evidently included
 
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