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Calcite from
Atud mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Atud mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:616945
Long-form Identifier:1:3:616945:9
GUID (UUID V4):c611bcad-627d-4416-bb0c-7d8aab6959ef
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
32.2km (20.0 miles) Sukari gold mine, Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
39.5km (24.6 miles) Um Samra-Um Bakra shear zone, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
39.8km (24.7 miles) Abu Khruq alkaline complex, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
45.2km (28.1 miles) Mueilha mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
52.1km (32.4 miles) Wadi Abu Dabbab, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
55.3km (34.4 miles) Dungash Mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
57.3km (35.6 miles) Emerald mines, Wadi Nugrus, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
62.6km (38.9 miles) Barramiya Mine, Barramiya, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
79.6km (49.5 miles) Um Gheig Lead-Zinc Mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
94.3km (58.6 miles) Western Mine, Um Samiuki, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of gold-bearing fluids in Atud gold deposit, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt Amr Abdelnasser & Mustafa...of gold-bearing fluids in Atud gold deposit, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, International Geology Review...of gold-bearing fluids in Atud gold deposit, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt Amr Abdelnassera,b and Mustafa...Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Electron microprobe analyses...genesis of the Atud gold deposit hosted in the metagabbro–diorite complex of Gabal Atud (Central Eastern
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...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Distribution and genetic characteristics, Eastern Desert, Egypt, Neoproterozoic, Accretionary orogen, Arabian-Nubian...alluvial concentrations in the eastern part of Egypt for more than 6,000 years, from before the time
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)
gold mineralisation at the Betam mine, south Eastern Desert, Egypt Basem A. Zoheir Received: 16 February...deposit, located in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, is related to a series of milky quartz veins along...mineralised quartz veins. Keywords Gold . Betam . Egypt . Shear zone . Orogenic gold . Fluid inclusions...Geology, Benha Faculty of Science, 13518 Benha, Egypt e-mail: basem.zoheir@gmail.com Introduction The...geological ensemble covering several countries, i.e. Egypt, Eritrea, DO00156; No of Pages 80 Ethiopia,
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)
Lizardite, which is reported for the first time in Egypt, is found to be of common occurrence. Talc, tremolite...goethite, and occasionally a little chlorite or calcite. Spectrographic analyses of some of the magnetically...are of wide distribution in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and are typically of Alpine type, occurring either...These rocks are reported to consist of talc and calcite (Amin, I948), of talc and breunnerite (Gad, I952)...of the serpentinites and talc-carbonate rocks of Egypt. About ~35 thin sections and the same number of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks from the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt, in terms of stratigraphic relations, chemical compositions...extends from Egypt south to Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia on the western flank of the Red Sea and on the...Rayn Afif Aswan Sudan 20˚ 400 Km Fig. 1B Egypt 25˚ 45˚ Jeddah Gebeit Asir Legend Haya Oceanic...setting Banded iron formation Diamictite HU Egypt 27˚ Metavolcanic rocks Major city SA Saudi Kareim...sequence with volcanic rocks of similar age in Egypt. We report new geochemical data, U–Pb zircon ages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanic rocks from the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: New insights into the ∼750 Ma crust-forming event...Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, El Maadi, Kattamyia, Egypt b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Kareim and Wadi El Dabbah, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt. These metavolcanic sequences are representative...Arabian-Nubian Shield is well exposed on the flanks of the Red Sea, making it an excellent place to study Neoproteozoic...tectonic setting and age of metavolcanic rocks in Egypt are poorly understood. Neither has any modern, highquality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Precambrian Intrusive Carbonates, Eastern Desert of Egypt and Sudan: C, 0 and Sr Isotopic Evidence R O B E...Precambrian intrusive carbonates, Eastern Desert of Egypt and Sudan: C, 0 and Sr isotopic evidence. Precambrian...Sudanese shields (ESS), from the Eastern Desert of Egypt and Sudan. The isotopic data indicate that three...rocks exposed along the western flank of the Red Sea in Egypt and Sudan formed between 900 and 550 Ma as...Wadi E1 Gord 25°47'N, 33°42'E E-223D,E Wadi Mia Mine 25° 18'N, 33°57'E Sudan S- 11 Bangadeed Village
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
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...Robertson Research Ltd. and its subsidiaries, Minex-Egypt and Minex-Sudan, became accessible through archives
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Granitoid-associated gold mineralization in Egypt: a case study from the Atalla mine Basem Zoheir 1,2 & Fatma Deshesh...monzogranite intrusion in the Eastern Desert of Egypt are controlled by subparallel NE-trending brittle...Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt 2 Institute of Geosciences, University of Kiel...Science, Mansoura University, 35516, El-, Mansoura, Egypt 4 Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm...mining sites dispersed in the Eastern Desert (ED) of Egypt reflects significant mining activity in the region
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Arabian-Nubian shield exposed in the Eastern Desert of Egypt have long been known to host gold, with more than...2002), based on studies of deposits at El-Sid and Atud (deposits 10 and 14, respectively, in Fig. 1). Other...12 25 13 o Idfu 18 14 Mersa 15 Alam 16 RED SEA 17 19 24 o Aswan 20 21 23 22 o 23 24
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jürgen Loizenbauer The Sukari Gold Mine, Eastern Desert—Egypt: structural setting, mineralogy and fluid...Abstract The Sukari gold mine (18.8 Mt @ 2.14 g/t Au) is located 15 km west of the Red Sea coast in the southern...southern central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The vein-type deposit is hosted in Late Neoproterozoic granite...Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, Minia, Egypt H. Fritz Æ J. Loizenbauer Institute of Geology and...Keywords Gold deposits Æ Sukari mine Æ Central Eastern Desert Æ Egypt Æ Arsenian pyrite Æ Arsenopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cumberland, gilbertitc, 6o6. George and Charlotte mine, Tavistock, Devon, 'tavistockite', [ 23. Grassington...analcime, natrolite, prehnite, calcite, 147. INDEX Drakewalls mine, Gunnislake, posnjakite, 740. Hingston...Hingston Down Consols" mine, arthurite, 52o. Lee Moor, muscovite, 606. Stenna Gwyn, St. Austell, wavellite...(Espafia) Cabo Ortegal, Galicia, omphacite, 6L CarmeBta mine, Caceres, montcbrasite, 4t4. Santander, blende,...Sokolovsko-Sarbaiskaya, Kazakhstan, calcite, 929. Tetyukhinsky, Maritime Province, calcite, 929. INDEX 969 Azerbaidzhan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...dominated by sericite, drusy quartz, kaolinite, calcite, and specular hematite, combined with the available
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)
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...comprises three distinct zones, namely distal chlorite-calcite zone (chloritezcalcite¡biotite¡pyrite¡ sericite¡epidote)
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)
AKHTER (S. M.), see QAISER(M. A.), 735. Alaer6n mine, Copiap6, Chile, arsenolamprite, 732. Ala di Stura...distinction from montebrasite, 4r4. Amblygonite mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County...Tasmania, anal., opt., cell-size, 942. Angouria, Egypt, antigorite, 493. Anorthite, New Zealand, anal....for coexistence with hornblende, 923. Antigorite, Egypt, anal., X-ray, d.t.a., 394. Apatite, Nigeria, opt...and MARSHALL(M.), Determination of water by infra-red analysis, 256. AUCOTT (J. W.) see ATrEWELL (P. B
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jurassic units 118 comprise terrestrial clastic red beds. Rare Upper Triassic to Jurassic argillaceous...primarily quartz and carbonates (dolomite and calcite), sericite and chlorite. Wallrock 205 alteration...447 The auriferous veins contain carbonates (calcite), chlorite, quartz and sericite, indicating that...via fluid– 469 rock interactions), e.g., at the Atud and Nutekin deposits (Abdelnasser et al., 2017,...gold-bearing fluids in Atud gold 541 deposit, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. Int. Geol. Rev. 59(15)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
muscovite), and propylitic (chlorite, carbonates ± calcite, epidote) mineral assemblages developed in the...of gold-associated alteration zones in Atud gold deposit, Egypt. This was achieved through applying PCA...lithological mapping in the south-eastern desert of Egypt based on the Landsat-8 data, while applying the...mapping of hydrothermal alteration in Atud gold deposit, Egypt. J. African Earth Sci. 145, 317-330. Abedi...zones in um rus area, central eastern desert of egypt. Adv. Space Res. 49, 121–134. Amusuk, D.J., Hashim
Report (chapter)
evolution in the El-Sid gold deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt BASEM ZOHEIR1* & ROBERT MORITZ2 1 Department of...Geology, Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Egypt 2 Earth and Environmental Sciences, University...Auriferous quartz (+carbonate) veins in the El-Sid mine cut through the western margin of the Fawakhir granitic...stable isotope signature of the vein quartz and calcite suggest mixed magmatic and metamorphic fluid sources...¼ +4.9‰ to +7.4‰). Unusually low d C values of calcite in the late mineralization (213.9‰ to 214.7‰) may
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Study of Abu Dabbab Area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt Hatem M. El-Desoky 1 , Ahmed M. Abdel-Rahman 1 ...Study of Abu Dabbab Area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. Minerals 2022, 12, 1093. https://doi.org/10.3390/...Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt Department of Chemistry, Physics and Environment...Geology, National Research Center, Cairo 12622, Egypt Institute of physics and technology, Ural Federal...71524, Egypt Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71524, Egypt Correspondence:
 
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