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Muscovite granite from
Emerald mines, Wadi Nugrus, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Muscovite granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Emerald mines, Wadi Nugrus, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1480598
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1480598:9
GUID (UUID V4):3215b0e7-f16e-4012-83f8-24dbd25f5015
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite granite
1.5km (1.0 miles) Um Sleimat, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry and Genesis of Beryl from Wadi Nugrus, South Eastern Desert, Egypt Ahmed E. Abdel Gawad 1, * , Antoaneta...Geochemistry and Genesis of Beryl from Wadi Nugrus, South Eastern Desert, Egypt. Minerals 2022, 12, 206. https://doi...Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, El-Maadi, Cairo, Egypt; dr_mohamed1966@yahoo.com (M.A.A.); moh.gho@mail...occurs in the ancient Roman mines at Wadi Nugrus, South Eastern Desert of Egypt. It ranges from small crystals...The emerald of Wadi Nugrus has similarities with the geological setting of the Canadian emeralds. Emeralds
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EMERALD and OTHER BERYLS by JOHN SINKANKAS This is Beryls jewelers, gists, geologists, earth ...sciences, yet eminently facet and widely a Emerald historians, gemological Sinkankas, the permanent...metal beryllium. with Beginning author traces emerald—from its less ite, role of history’s pendix...Unmatched third is knowledge from author one emerald cutting and of exotic composition, physical...mineralogical once events. languages for beryl emerald logical to and part, Sinkankas explores and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF THE REGAL RIDGE EMERALD SHOWING, SOUTHEASTERN YUKON LEE A. GROAT§ Department...authors (WW) discovered a major occurrence of emerald in the Finlayson Lake district of southeastern...contact with a mid-Cretaceous granitic pluton. The emerald crystals occur where quartz veins cut mica-rich...chromophore. Fluid-inclusion data indicate that the emerald precipitated from a fluid whose maximum salinity...equivalent. The oxygen isotopic composition of the emerald is highly variable (12.3 to 14.8‰), but there is
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F. HUME, the Pioneers of the E astern Desert of Egypt 1\1:ultum non multa Plinius ]1-1,nior CONTENTS...OF SUEZ AND THE NORTHERN RED SEA . . . . . 7 . r. Tectonic map of Egypt by N. A. Syagaev . . . ...Southern Area of the Red Sea Hills towards the Sudan border (Photogeological map of Upper Egypt by Hunting, 1967)...1967) 4. Border area between Sudan and Egypt 5. A. Stratigraphic correction . . . . . . B. Tectonics... . . . . a) Fault Zones crossing the Northern Red Sea. b) The Cairo Graben . . . . . . c) The northern
Report (issue)
Discovery Stoppaniite Fabio Tamagnini Page 40 Emerald and Aquamarine in Canada Lee A. Groat Page 22...Alfredo Petrov and Rupert Hochleitner Page 98 Beryl Red and Green William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster...page 22). These include aquamarine, red beryl, morganite, emerald, goshenite, and heliodor. Known for...varieties emerald and aquamarine are surrounded by the ancient mysticism of birthstones. Emerald, aquamarine...would be known today as emerald; "beryllus" is the Latin term for beryl; "sea green beryllus" referred
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index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Asia. 2. Mines and mineral resources—Australia. 3. Mines and mineral... Witsoe sea Foreword Minerals are the inorganic solids that...them, mineralogists have come to recognize certain mines, quarries, and mineral deposits as having produced...Tochigi Prefecture, Honshu The Ani and Arakawa Mines, Ugo Province, Akita Prefecture, Honshu The Obira...Prefecture, Honshu References 2. China Wanshanchang Mines, Toon Yen (Tungyen) Prefecture, Kweichow Guizhov
Book (edition)
of giving in connection some information as to mines and mining renovation ; industry. " The student...grains when it cannot make distinct crystals. Granite mountains are mountains of crystals, each particle...color of the centre changes from blue to yellow and red in riff It ^-handed crystals if the revolution is...metallic are named after some familiar metal, as copper-red, bronze-yellow, brass-yellow, gold-yellow, steelgray...blue, green, yellow, and brown. There are thus red, snow-white, reddish-white, greenishwhite, milk-white
Report (volume)
lithium phases................................... Muscovite phase................................................................................ Graphic granite.............................................. Feldspar...plagioclases................................. Graphic granite..................;........................................................................ 145 Emerald..................................................V. A, Lenses of quartz diorite in porphyritic granite, St. George River; B, Flow gneiss, same locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatites, and beryl~luartz veins in the Rosses granite complex. The beryls studied were all very similar...types of occurrence: disseminated in greisenized granite; in beryl-bearing pegmatite; and in beryl-quartz...Rosses granite complex (Pitcher, I953). Most of the G3 granite, and a small part of the G4 granite, are...normal biotite-granite has been altered metasomatically into a quartz-rich muscovite-granite ('greisenized-granite')...('greisenized-granite'), which contains beryl in the areas of most intense alteration. Although the greatest amount
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Paleolithic, located near the Lake Allaki among the granite outcrops, where the fragments of parietal art were...complicated access to a site with graphic (Hebraic) granite samples from the graphic part of the vein and the...development. Within the intrusion, there are many mineral mines concentrated in the skarn xenoliths of host carbonate... Apatite Saturation Thermometry of the Kozhim Granite Massif (the Subpolar Urals) . . . . . . . . . ...Crystal-Chemical Features and Color Nature of Emeralds from the Khench Deposit (Afghanistan) . . . .
Report (volume)
126. 1886. Albite. Northampton. Iu veins in the granite lit si quarry south of W. N. Moore's east of Florence...in Chester; (2) in hornblende-schist, adjoining granite, east of the soapstoue quarry in North Blandford;...of Shelburiie Falls, on the river. For albite-muscovite pseudoniovphs after spodmuene, see Cymatolite...fissures. ' It shows a clear dichroism in two shades of red-brown and uudulose polarization in stellate bands...in small square prisms, changed generally into a red-brown hydrated variety. A radiated puckering of the
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growing amid feldspar crystals in a cavity in granite, from Paris, Me. 279 PLATE 1.—Basal forms of... LIST OF PLATES PAGE PLATE 11.—Cuprite, the red crystals showing char- acteristic color, others...PLATE 53.—A coarse granite. PLATE 54.—Syenite. 333 334 Survey. Graphic granite Gabbro : 335 336...of a New England brook. A pebble of schist and granite from the foot of Mt. Toby, Mass. 350 PLATE fell...series of metamorphic rocks, with a central core of granite, the roots of former mountains. Don’t be afraid
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life-rich, shallow seas covering the area, while granite had its origin in slow cooling intrusions of molten...enrich our lives and tempt our vanity: diamonds, emeralds, garnets, and the like. Thus, a closer acquaintance...colorless, but with a trace of iron oxide it becomes red, when it is known as the ruby; with a trace of cobalt...metallic to dull. Hardness: 6. Streak: brownish red. Fracture: uneven, brittle. HORNBLENDE Luster: glassy...scratched with a steel file. Streak: black to brownish red. Fracture: shell-like to Hardness: uneven. 14
Journal (issue)
Price 30s.-Od. (by post 30s. 9d.). . !.-Moine- Old Red Sandstone Ui;iconformity at Sugar Loaf Island, near...Smith, B .Sc., Ph.D. . · ··· . · II.-The Strontian Granite Complex, Argyllshire, by P. A. Sabine, Ph.D., A...Atkin, M.Sc. . . 49 YI.-Beryllium in the Foxdale granite, Isle of Man, by J. Dawson, B.Sc. . . 55 VII...FIG. 5. Fro. 6. FIG. 1. VI Outcrop of Foxdale granite (after Lamplugh) 56 VII Euclase with numerous...detected in the Pibble, Drumruck and King's Laggan mines near Newton Stewart, but primary uranium 1nineralization
Book (volume)
United States. North Carolina is a source of true emeralds and outstanding quartz crystals. New Hampshire...is from Stoneham and the best American green and red gem tourmalines are from Paris, Poland, and Newry...interest of the written account. There are many great mines or finds which have no surviving specimens to represent...the discovery of certain silver minerals in Maine mines is reduced due to the almost non-existence of specimens...specimens because they themselves remember which mines they have visited. If there were a never-ending
Book (edition)
hollandite. and shattuckite, etc., in brownish red, metamorphic Mn-rich 113°45'. 79°34·, Z = 1. d: 10...Apikia. Andros Is., both Greece. NJbMA 163, mm. Pink. red-brown. luster submetallic to adamantine, soft. Cleavage...tin ingots from a ship wrecked 100 years ago in Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. AM 78, 235-236, 1993. Abswurmbachite...1.564(6) - Fraser R., all British Columbia, in Granite Mts., Wy1.084(7) - 1.052(9). Long-bladed, sometimes...elongated grains, or massive. Brown to black, also red-brown or brown-yellow, luster adamantine to submetallic
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bastnas Mines, Riddarhyttan Ore Field, Bergslagen District, Vastmanland...south-central Sweden, where tens of thousands of different mines have been worked for nearly a thousand years. Iron...fields, with approximately 300 large and small mines. Iron ore mining began in the mid-14th century,...A second attempt was made in 1616, when the old mines were reopened and a small smelter was constructed...Urbansson was granted tax reductions to expand the mines and produce raw copper. In the 17th century, such
Journal (issue)
sending out their dry, written lists (“Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona, 1-inch, 500; 2-inch, $2; 2 inch...Earth Minerals Good Enough . . . Inc. Hallelujah Mines Hammad Gems - Pakistan Hampel Mineraiogical Museum...inerals - Spain Raging Mole M inerals Rancher, The Red Metal Minerals Rich, Carter Fine Minerals Richards...igenius Fossils & Antiquities - Neth. R.J.B. Rock Shop Red Beryl Mine Reed, Blaine Meteorites Ryder, Dan Fossils...form under more limited conditions, primarily in granite-derived pegmatites, greisens and rarer hydrothermal
salt-domes. Deep yellow in colour, sometimes tinged red or green, but occasionally brownish, and translucent...brownish, but sometimes occurs in shades of yellow or red. Appearing transparent or translucent, it has a vitreous...or it may display shades of grey, green, yellow, red, blue and purple, or even brown or black. Iceland...white, but may also occur in shades of yellow, grey, red and brown. Its hardness is 2 and it is easily scratched...usually white in colour, often tinged yellow, brown or red, but sometimes bluish or greenish; crystals may be
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salt-domes. Deep yellow in colour, sometimes tinged red or green, but occasionally brownish, and translucent...brownish, but sometimes occurs in shades of yellow or red. Appearing transparent or translucent, it has a vitreous...or it may display shades of grey, green, yellow, red, blue and purple, or even brown or black. Iceland...white, but may also occur in shades of yellow, grey, red and brown. Its hardness is 2 and it is easily scratched...usually white in colour, often tinged yellow, brown or red, but sometimes bluish or greenish; crystals may be
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CHAPTER; XXI. XXII, l'AGE RocK FAMILIES 451 Granite-Rhyolite Family 451 Granodiorite-Dacite Family...phlogopite, shown by the strong transmitted light. Muscovite. Orthoclase feldspar crystals. Biotite. XVIII...texture (granite). Medium texture (granite). Coarse texture (granite). Uneven texture (granite). Between...Between pages 366 and 367 XXV. Porphyritic granite. Quartz-feldspar porphyry. Syenite porphyry. Felsitic...structure. Scoriaceous lava. Intrusion breccia, granite in schist, Rhyolite, showing Aow structure. Between
Journal (volume)
..... 161 Ductile Shear Zones in the Northern Red Sea Hills, Sudan and their Implication for Crustal... 185 Geochemistry of the Tioueine Pan-African Granite Complex (Hoggar, Algeria) : A. Azzouni-Sekkal and...389 Accessory Mineralogy of the Ririwai Biotite Granite, Nigeria, and its Albitized and Greisenized Facies:...the non-granitoid co1nponent of the Barberton granite/greenstone terrain (c:f Vea rn co,nbe et al. 1986)...research was carried out in the Barberton greenstone/ granite terrain in the 1960s, principally by M. J. Vi ljoen
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accordance with whether the indices are greater for red or violet light, but the notation — may also refer...listed in Table 5. TaBLe 5 - GeEoLocic Bopies Granite pegmatites, including their oxidized and/or hydrothermally...Chemical Society of Japan Bulletin Colorado School of Mines Quarterly Crystal Structure Reports Crystal Structures... References xl EOB EOS EPSL ERS .J. Sinkankas, Emerald and Other Beryls, Chiton Book Co., Radnor, PA,...Mineralogist ISM V. C. Farmer, ed. The Intfra-red Specira of Minerals, Monograph 4, Mineralogical Society
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its color. Among the from colorless, white, red, green, blue, brown, yellow, orange, to black. In...Chromium Green, red Manganese Pink, red Emerald, ruby Rhodochrosite, rhodonite Iron Red, brown Pink...present very small quantities in the mineral called emerald (actually beryl, Be 2 Al 2 Si 6 0 18 ), but the...Pink-rose Rhodochrosite, orthoclase Orange-red Realgar, crocoite Red Gold-brass Cinnabar, hematite, zincite...minerals, streaks vary from white to various tones of red, blue, green, yellow, brown, orange, gray, and to
Report (volume)
Bulletin 1693} Bibliography 1. Ore Deposits. 2. Mines and mineral resources. I. Cox, Dennis P. II. Singer...barite, by Greta J. Orris 31c Descriptive model of emerald veins, by Dennis P. Cox 216 219 Deposits in...skarn, replacement Sn and Sn vein deposits to granite intrusions 59 Tonnages of Sn skarn deposits 60...anomalously radioactive high-silica rhyolite and granite). Two of the most prominent attributes, the co...--------------------------------------------31b Emerald veins --------------------------------------------31c
 
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