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Pyrrhotite from
Fawakhir Mine, Qift area, Qena Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fawakhir Mine, Qift area, Qena Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1268106
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1268106:6
GUID (UUID V4):88aafcbe-ea5d-4081-b96a-60eb5a5dcee2
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
12.4km (7.7 miles) ⓘGabal Um Halham, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
17.2km (10.7 miles) ⓘAtalla Mine, Qena Governorate, Egypt
20.3km (12.6 miles) ⓘSemna mine, Bir Semna, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
22.7km (14.1 miles) ⓘGidami deposit, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
29.4km (18.3 miles) ⓘEl Sid Mine, Qift area, Qena 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...Nb–Ta and U mineralization in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Anorogenic gold mineralization connected with post-orogenic
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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...minerals include an early pyrite-arsenopyrite (±pyrrhotite) mineralization, partly replaced by a late p...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
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geochronology of gold mineralization in the Fawakhir area, Eastern Desert, Egypt B.A. Zoheira*, R.A. Creaserb and...Geology, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt; bEarth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of...mesothermal gold-quartz veins in the ancient Egyptian Fawakhir–El Sid gold mining district in the central Eastern...map, as well as the oldest geologic and mine map. The Fawakhir–El Sid district is part of a regional NNWtrending...I-type and magnetite-series monzogranite, the Fawakhir granite intrusion, and a Pan-African (~740 Ma)
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chaleopyrite-pyrite mineralization Hamash gold mine, Southeastern Desert, Egypt M. Ezzeldin Hilmy and A. Osman Department...Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Abstract. Pyrite, chalcopyrite, and gold occur in...Hamash area, Southeastern Desert, Egypt. The minerals are associated in part with pyrrhotite, digenite...ancient times came largely from Nubia in southern Egypt. Placer deposits covered large areas. It is probable...illustrating mine features was that of King Siti I (1,350-1,205 B.C.) of the Fawakhir mine on the Qena-Quseir
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ophiolitic metaultramafics, central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Evidences from chromites, sulphides and gangues...Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt Correspondence Abdel‐Aal M. Abdel‐Karim, Geology...of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt. Email: am_abdelkarim@hotmail.com | Shaimaa A...(~790 Ma) of Um Halham, Fawakhir and Barramiya, central Eastern Desert, Egypt. These ultramafics exhibit...necessary for crystallizing chromite. Pentlandite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, gersdorffite and pyrite are the
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...(+carbonate) veins in the El-Sid mine cut through the western margin of the Fawakhir granitic intrusion and the...developed late in the deformational history of the area. Field and microscopic studies suggest two distinct...southern and central sectors of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, whereas gold occurrences confined to granitic intrusions
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
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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...veins dominated by pyrite, arsenopyrite, and (or) pyrrhotite, in addition to subordinate chalcopyrite, sphalerite... M absolute dates on ore formation, from the Fawakhir and Atalla deposits in the Central ED Eastern
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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...developed late in the deformation history of the area. Although slightly sheared and boudinaged within...arsenopyrite and subordinate galena, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and gold. Gold occurs in the quartz veins and...2–2.6 kbar. Based on the arsenopyrite–pyrite– pyrrhotite cotectic, arsenopyrite (30.4–30.7 wt.% As) associated
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...ore mineralogy includes pyrite, arsenopyrite ± pyrrhotite ± chalcopyrite ± galena; gold occurs both in...usually included in arsenopyrite, pyrite, or pyrrhotite next to fragments of altered country rocks, or...Arabian-Nubian shield exposed in the Eastern Desert of Egypt have long been known to host gold, with more than
Book
· Yasser Abd El-Rahman Editors The Geology of Egypt Regional Geology Reviews Series Editors Roland...require when beginning investigations in a particular area and are encouraged to include as much information...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
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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...of the Red Sea in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. In the Eastern Desert of Egypt, numerous but small gold...km for quartz veining and gold deposition in the area, compatible with crustal conditions of greenschist
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El-Erediya-El-Missikat Province, Eastern Desert, Egypt Mahmoud M. Hassaan 1, *, Sayed A. Omar 2 , Ahmed...El-Erediya-El-Missikat Province, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Minerals 2022, 12, 518. https://doi.org/10.3390/...Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt; taher_gc@azhar.edu.eg (T.M.S.); islam-elnaggar@azhar...Authority, P.O. Box 530, El Maadi, Cairo 11936, Egypt; sayedomar87@yahoo.com Department of Geological...Research Centre, El-Buhouth St., Dokki, Cairo 12622, Egypt; ahmedekhalil58@yahoo.com Department of Physics
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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
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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
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Ediacaran gold mineralization in the Sukhaybarat area, western Afif terrane, Saudi Arabia Hesham M. Harbi...disturbed cooling age for the tonalite. In the Red Hill area, granodiorite was emplaced at 615 ± 5 Ma, whereas...minerals such as arsenopyrite, pyrite, and/or pyrrhotite, and were deposited from CO2-rich ore fluids...rocks. Miner Deposita The Sukhaybarat mining area, which was mined during the Islamic Abbasid period...Minerals in 1994, respectively. The Bulghah gold mine, 70 km to the south (location 5 in Fig. 1), commenced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold-bearing sulfide minerals, El Sid Gold Mine, Eastern Desert, Egypt A. M. EI-Bouseily, M. A. EI-Dahhar and...Dept., Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt Abstract. Gold deposits at E1 Sid are confined to...chalcopyrite and minor amounts of bornite and pyrrhotite. Gold inclusions occur in these sulfides as well...gave a model age of 500 my for galena from E1 Sid mine. Chemical data on E1 Sid Au-bearing sulfide minerals...(1976), Introduction Gold deposits are known in Egypt since ancient times. More than 95 localities were
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)
Northwestern Part of Wadi Allaqi Area, South Eastern Desert, Egypt Ahmed M. El-Makky1,3 and Kadry N....northwestern part of Wadi Allaqi area, Eastern Desert, Egypt. The area comprises Precambrian metasediments...well as the stream sediments draining Um Garayat area and the quartz-porphyry stock with high abundance...hosted mineralizations that signify a promising area for detailed exploration. KEY WORDS: Allaqi shear...analyses, geochemical associations. (Fig. 1). This area has arid climatic nature (Cancer zone), where rarely
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)
North Hamisana shear zone, South Eastern Desert, Egypt: The integrated ïŹeld, structural, Landsat 7 ETM...Materials Authority, P. O. Box 530, El Maadi, Cairo, Egypt Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Faculty...metal sulïŹde Neoproterozoic Arabian–Nubian shield Egypt a b s t r a c t The Hamisana shear zone (HSZ),...Gebeit terranes). The north Hamisana shear zone area (NHSZ), cuts across sequences of island arc-related...mineralization in this area, which considered as poorly mapped remote region not only in Egypt but also in Sudan
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the El Sukkari Granite, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt a b Yehia H. Dawood , Gehad M. Saleh & Hamdy H...Shams University b Nuclear Materials Authority, Egypt Published online: 16 Jul 2010. To cite this article:...the El Sukkari Granite, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, International Geology Review, 47:12, 1316-1329...the El Sukkari Granite, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt YEHIA H. DAWOOD, Downloaded by [University of Colorado...Science, Ain Shams University, Abassia 11566, Cairo, Egypt GEHAD M. SALEH,1 AND HAMDY H. ABD EL-NABY Nuclear
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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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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
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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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