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Andesite from
Atalla Mine, Qena Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Andesite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andesite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Atalla Mine, Qena Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1370873
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1370873:1
GUID (UUID V4):6f79808d-67d5-49f9-85d3-50d4e6f61314
Nearest other occurrences of Andesite
22.9km (14.3 miles) ⓘFawakhir ophiolite, Qift area, Qena Governorate, Egypt
55.9km (34.7 miles) ⓘWadi Kariem, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
95.7km (59.5 miles) ⓘGebel Gattar, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
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Granitoid-associated gold mineralization in Egypt: a case study from the Atalla mine Basem Zoheir 1,2 & Fatma Deshesh...cutting mainly through the Atalla monzogranite intrusion in the Eastern Desert of Egypt are controlled by subparallel...conditions of ore formation, we suggest that the Atalla monzogranite intrusion acted only as a competent...fluids. Editorial handling: B. Lehmann Keywords Atalla gold deposit . Granitoid-associated Au . Structural...Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt 2 Institute of Geosciences, University of Kiel
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Basement Complex in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt By SAMIR EL-GABY, OSMAN EL-NADY & A L I KHUDE1R...clastics, and penecontemporaneous Dokhan Volcanics of andesite to rhyolite composition; syn to late-tectonic...Department of Geology, Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt. Geologische Rundschau 73, 3, 1019- 1036, Stuttgart...Meatiq" ~ lqOKpOSOM,,Abu-Ziran". Introduction In Egypt, Precambrian basement crops out in the southwestern...Basement Complex in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt the whole Arabian-Nubian Shield. However, opinions
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Potentiality Mapping of Atalla Area and Its Environs, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt Ali Shebl 1,2, * , Mahmoud...Department of Geology, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt Department of Geophysics, University of Miskolc...Department of Geology, South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt; sayed.hassan@sci.svu.edu.eg Correspondence:...potentiality mapping (GPM) over the Atalla area in Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. Utilizing aeromagnetic data...Potentiality Mapping of Atalla Area and Its Environs, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. Minerals 2021, 11, 641
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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 (~ 600 Ma) orogenic gold in Egypt: age of the Atalla gold mineralization and its geological...Ediacaran (~ 600 Ma) orogenic gold in Egypt: age of the Atalla gold mineralization and its geological...Ediacaran (~ 600 Ma) orogenic gold in Egypt: age of the Atalla gold mineralization and its geological...Geology, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt; bInstitute of Geosciences, University of Kiel,...University, El-Mansoura, Egypt ABSTRACT Integration of a new monazite U–Pb age for the Atalla monzogranite (615
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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...absolute dates on ore formation, from the Fawakhir and Atalla deposits in the Central ED Eastern Desert, indicate...Distribution and genetic characteristics, Eastern Desert, Egypt, Neoproterozoic, Accretionary orogen, Arabian-Nubian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abdel Ghani Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt Correspondence Osama K. Dessouky, Nuclear Materials...Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, El Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. Email: osamakhairy25@gmail.com Our understanding...W ORDS arc collision stages, Eastern Desert of Egypt, Hammamat, molasse basins, radioactivity 1 | ...stretched from Antarctica to Eastern Desert of Egypt constitutes the northwestern end of the Jordan...1986; Stoeser & Camp, 1985). The Eastern Desert of Egypt, being a part of the ANS, was classified into three
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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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lodes at the Abu Marawat area, Eastern Desert, Egypt: integrated mineralogical, structural control and...the Abu Marawat area, central Eastern Desert of Egypt. Sulphide-bearing quartz veins and related hydrothermal...13518, Egypt Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena 81528, Egypt *Corresponding...gold lodes at Abu Marawat area, Eastern Desert, Egypt felsite intrusions, whereas Abu Marawat gold deposit...Shear zone, Gold mineralisation, Eastern Desert, Egypt banded iron strata. No details of analytical methods
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basins of the western Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: Implications for the tectonic signiïŹcance of Hammamat...Geology Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Arak basins in the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt are the topics of this study. The basins probably...intermediate (mainly rhyolite, rhyodacite, dacite and andesite) subaerial lavas, ignimbrites and pyroclastics...the western side of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt (CED). The main basement gneissic complexes, nearby
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11790 Cairo, Egypt Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt Economic...Beni-Suef 62511, Egypt RI a Abstract MA In the Wadi Um Had area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, NE-trending...Arabian-Nubian Shield, Eastern Desert, Um Had, Egypt PT 1. Introduction Orogenic belts are composed...domains. RI Um Had area in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is part of the extreme northeastern African SC...pelitic metasediments and Hammamat AC sediments of Egypt. 5.3.2. Trace elements The ranges and averages
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
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Kid volcano-sedimentary rocks, Southern Sinai, Egypt: Implications for tectonic setting and crustal evolution...of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt Department of Mineral Resources and Rocks, Faculty...Science, Mansoura University, El-Mansoura 35516, Egypt g Geosciences Department, University of Texas at...chronologically similar to the Dokhan Volcanics of NE Egypt, which may be stratigraphic equivalents. © 2012...western Arabia (Fig. 1a). It extends south from Egypt to Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia on the western ïŹ‚ank
Book (volume)
the Arabian Shield shield and are reported from Egypt as well (Schurmann, 1966). They are typically mediumgrained...they are Mesozoic age are reported from Sudan and Egypt, the last major plutonic phase of the Arabian Shield...tentatively assume that these granites were recognized in Egypt (Vail, 1976; Neary et al., largely emplaced during...a d a batholith (Carmichael et al, 1974). 13 Egypt Saudi Arabia F I G 4 Normative quartz ( Q ) -...pegmatite dike Geochemical anomaly; W in sample from mine waste Occurrence; scheelite in contact metamorphic
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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...1 B asement rocks 27 o Phanerozoic rocks 3 Qena 26 6 Safaga 7 19 4 5 Hydrothermal Au deposit...vein-type gold deposits in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (compiled from Kochine and Bassuni, 1968; El-Ramly
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data from Wadi Zeidun and Wadi Arak basins, CED, Egypt A. Fowler a,∗ , M.M. Abdeen b a b Geology Department...Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Hammamat basins of the central Eastern Desert of Egypt (CED) (Fig. 1) contain typically several-kilometre... 1. Map of the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt showing the location of the study area basins (Z...unconformably on an arc metavolcanic basement of Atalla Formation and Um Seleimat Formation of the Abu
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shield, the Neoproterozoic Wadi Kid area, Sinai, Egypt Sabreen Gad ⁎, Timothy Kusky Earth and Atmospheric...Wadi Kid metamorphic belt in southeastern Sinai in Egypt represents a structurally and metamorphically complex...reserved. Keywords: Neoproterozoic; Sinai; ASTER; Egypt; Remote sensing; Band ratio 1. Introduction The...Arabian– Nubian Shield, in the southeastern Sinai, Egypt (Figs. 1 and 2). It comprises a 700 km2 assemblage...alkali rhyolite, high K-dacite, pyroclastic rocks, andesite, and basalt (Furnes et al., 1985); and (2) a sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ediacaran terrestrial molasse basin (Kareim basin, Egypt), with implications for sedimentary evolution A...Ediacaran terrestrial molasse basin (Kareim basin, Egypt), with implications for sedimentary evolution, Precambrian...Ediacaran terrestrial molasse basin (Kareim basin, Egypt), with implications for sedimentary evolution Fowler1...Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt ABSTRACT The Kareim basin in the Central Eastern...Ediacaran postamalgamation (Hammamat) basins in Egypt. It formed at a time of extensional tectonism (600
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MARQUES, 1 M. A. DE SOUSA, 1/2 L. CIVETTA, 3 L. ATALLA, 4 AND F. I N N O C E N T I 5 Instituto Astronomico...Parana plateau has previously been described by Atalla et al. (1982) and Bellieni et al. (1984). The latter...the text (triangle = basalt; circle = tholeiitic andesite; star = rhyodacite). reported by Bellieni et...hydrochloric acid was carried out on a tholeiitic andesite (sample no. H295) to check its isotopic homogeneity...0 ratio of the more differentiated tholeiitic andesite. This can be considered as evidence for the origin
Book
F. HUME, the Pioneers of the E astern Desert of Egypt 1\1:ultum non multa Plinius ]1-1,nior CONTENTS...RED SEA . . . . . 7 . r. Tectonic map of Egypt by N. A. Syagaev . . . . 2. Aqaba-J ordan line (F...(Photogeological map of Upper Egypt by Hunting, 1967) 4. Border area between Sudan and Egypt 5. A. Stratigraphic...deposits in the Central Sahara 2. Anti-Atlas 3. Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. XV. THE NORTH AFRICAN...Spain . . . . . Metamorphics in Pre-Cambrian a) Egypt . . . . b) Sinai . . . . . c) E. P. Saggerson d)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitoids at Wadi Ranga, south Eastern Desert, Egypt: A transition from subduction related to intra-arc...Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Egypt a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Intra-arc basin Pitchstone porphyry Granite porphyry Egypt a b s t r a c t The late Neoproterozoic of Wadi...sequence composed essentially of basalt/basaltic andesite lava ïŹ‚ows and the associated pyroclastics, while...basement complex of the Eastern Desert (ED) of Egypt can be classiïŹed into four major volcanic episodes
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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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Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Benha, Egypt c Mineral Resources, Technical University of Clausthal...fragments including granite, schist, granophyre, andesite and dacite. These components are cemented by microcrystalline...extensional tectonic regime occurred (Moghazi, 2003). In Egypt, rock units diagnostic for such an extensional tectonic...the Dokhan Volcanics and the Hammamat Group in Egypt. Moghazi (2003) suggested that the late Neoproterozoic...chalcopyritepyrite assemblage in the Hamash Au–Cu deposit (SE Egypt), for which Helmy and Kaindl (1999) suggested formation
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Cairo, Egypt b Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, 62517 Beni-Suef, Egypt c...Faculty of Science, Cairo University, 12613 Giza, Egypt d Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences...Centre, 12622 Dokki, Cairo, Egypt g El-Sobky for Agencies, Cairo, Egypt Abstract The medium- to high-K...continental island arc, an early pulse dominated by andesite and a later pulse dominated by dacite. The trace...from the time of basalt eruption to the time of andesite eruption, probably implying a high rate of crustal
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...gold mineralization; Fawakhir area; Wadi Hammamat; Egypt Introduction The East African Orogen is an extensive...mining and exploration activity, especially in Egypt, Arabia, Eritrea, and Ethiopia (Figure 1). Recent
 
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