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Arsenopyrite from
Sukari gold mine, Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Arsenopyrite
Formula:FeAsS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arsenopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sukari gold mine, Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:317564
Long-form Identifier:1:3:317564:4
GUID (UUID V4):827b8221-c012-463d-bcd0-4ac08629cdb8
Nearest other occurrences of Arsenopyrite
32.2km (20.0 miles) ⓘAtud mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
32.7km (20.3 miles) ⓘEmerald mines, Wadi Abu Rasheid, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
59.3km (36.9 miles) ⓘUm Rus Mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
78.9km (49.0 miles) ⓘWestern Mine, Um Samiuki, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
86.5km (53.8 miles) ⓘDungash Mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
94.4km (58.7 miles) ⓘBarramiya, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
94.8km (58.9 miles) ⓘBarramiya Mine, Barramiya, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fritz Jürgen Loizenbauer The Sukari Gold Mine, Eastern Desert—Egypt: structural setting, mineralogy...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...the southern central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The vein-type deposit is hosted in Late Neoproterozoic granite...late Pan-African shear and extension tectonics. At Sukari, bulk NE– SW strike-slip deformation was accommodated...initially at conditions of about 300 C and 1.5–2 kbar. Gold is associated with sulïŹdes in quartz veins and in
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Accepted Manuscript Orogenic gold in the Egyptian Eastern Desert: Widespread gold mineralization in the late...Goldfarb, et al., Orogenic gold in the Egyptian Eastern Desert: Widespread gold mineralization in the late...Neoproterozoic orogeny T Orogenic gold in the Egyptian Eastern Desert: Widespread gold mineralization in the 2Institute...Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Benha, Egypt AN 1Department US Basem A. Zoheir1,2,*, Peter...(ANS) is a rapidly emerging world-class province for gold resources mainly in structurally-controlled quartz±carbonate
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Re-Os geochronology of gold mineralization in the Fawakhir area, Eastern Desert, Egypt B.A. Zoheira*, R.A...Geology, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt; bEarth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of...report the ïŹrst Re-Os data on gold-associated arsenopyrite from mesothermal gold-quartz veins in the ancient...ancient Egyptian Fawakhir–El Sid gold mining district in the central Eastern Desert. This mining district...geographic map, as well as the oldest geologic and mine map. The Fawakhir–El Sid district is part of a regional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration geochemistry of the Betam gold deposit, south Eastern Desert, Egypt: mass-volume-mineralogical changes...N. N. Qaoud2 Although there is relatively minor gold production from the Arabian–Nubian shield at present...lode fields along the western side of the Red Sea in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan were worked out by the...of years. In the Eastern Desert of Egypt, numerous but small gold deposits are generally related to auriferous...trending in different directions. Gold mineralisation at the Betam mine area, south Eastern Desert, is related
Report (chapter)
org/ by guest on June 21, 2018 Shear-zone hosted gold mineralization of the Arabian– Nubian Shield: devolatilization...Geology Department, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt 3 Geology Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown...*Correspondence: Tamer@npolar.no Abstract: Orogenic gold ores of the Arabian–Nubian Shield are structurally...the metamorphism and the formation of the orogenic gold ores. In order to constrain this genetic relationship...presented. The studied gold-bearing dykes and veins are structurally controlled where the gold-bearing ïŹ‚uid precipitated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution of orogenic gold mineralisation at the Betam mine, south Eastern Desert, Egypt Basem A. Zoheir ...Abstract The Betam gold deposit, located in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, is related to a series...includes pyrite, arsenopyrite and subordinate galena, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and gold. Gold occurs in the...adjacent wallrocks as inclusions in pyrite and arsenopyrite, blebs and globules associated with galena,... fracture fillings in deformed arsenopyrite or as thin, wirelike rims within or around rhythmic goethite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shear zone-related gold mineralization in Egypt: A case study from the Um El Tuyor mine, south Eastern Desert...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...but small gold deposits are generally related to auriferous quartz veins commonly associated with brittle–ductile
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...the journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT GOLD IN EGYPT: DOES THE FUTURE GET WORSE OR BETTER? N. S....Desert of Egypt, there are more than hundred vein-type gold deposits and occurrences. Gold was mined...ancient mines, byproduct gold hosted in volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits and gold-bearing Algoma-type
Report (chapter)
2015 Fluid evolution in the El-Sid gold deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt BASEM ZOHEIR1* & ROBERT MORITZ2 1...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...intrusion and the immediate country ophiolites. Gold mineralization is spatially and temporally associated...distinct ore stages; namely an early gold-Fe–As-sulphide, and a late gold-base metal mineralization. New microthermometric
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Granitoid-associated gold mineralization in Egypt: a case study from the Atalla mine Basem Zoheir 1,2 &...2017 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2017 Abstract Gold-bearing sulfide-quartz veins cutting mainly through...monzogranite intrusion in the Eastern Desert of Egypt are controlled by subparallel NE-trending brittle...615–585 Ma). Ore minerals include an early pyrite-arsenopyrite (±pyrrhotite) mineralization, partly replaced...pyrite-galena-sphaleritechalcopyrite (±gold/electrum ± tetrahedrite ± hessite) assemblage. Gold occurs as small inclusions
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
Book
Dietrich Klemm Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia Geoarchaeology of the Ancient Gold Mining Sites...Authority (EGSMA) carried out a systematic survey of the gold deposits in the Egyptian Eastern Desert in collaboration...identifying large numbers of partly economically viable gold mineralisations as well as unmistakable traces from...over centuries mined and prospected the region’s gold ores while revealing almost if not just as efficient...convincing model for the genesis of the examined gold mineralisations was forwarded that might have contributed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ediacaran (~ 600 Ma) orogenic gold in Egypt: age of the Atalla gold mineralization and its geological...(2018): 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,...Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, El-Mansoura, Egypt ABSTRACT Integration of a new monazite U–Pb age
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mesothermal quartz veins with pyrite, arsenopyrite, and visible or invisible gold. In addition to any other mineralogical...crystals from mesothermal quartz-pyrite-arsenopyrite-stibnite-gold ores from the NĂ­zke Tatry Mountains (Western...mesothermal quartz veins with pyrite, arsenopyrite, and visible or invisible gold (e.g., Genkin et al. 1998). Many...from mesothermal quartz-pyrite-arsenopyritestibnite-gold ores from the NĂ­zke Tatry Mountains in the Western...economic interest, are quartz veins with pyrite-arsenopyrite-gold and stibnite mineralization. Samples and
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 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wall rock alteration at Kurdeman gold mine area, Eastern Desert, Egypt A. M. El-Makky, K. I. Khalil and...shear zone-related gold mineralization of Kurdeman in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is hosted by greenschist...and talc-carbonate rocks of Pan-African age. The gold deposit comprises boudinaged quartz veins enveloped...and siliciïŹcation, and somewhat chloritization and gold-sulïŹde mineralization. Factor 5 characterizes the...preliminary reserve evaluation suggests that the amount of gold considering the limited anomalous areas of the explored
Book
in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. Originally our goal was to...volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) copper-zinc-gold-silver, (4) sedimentary-exhalative (SEDEX) zinclead-silver...(5) orogenic and intrusion-related gold, (6) iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG), (7) banded iron formation...nickel-cobalt-arsenic-silver-bismuth(-uranium), (12) epithermal gold-silver, (13) skarn and replacement tungsten, tin...mechanically concentrated deposits (e.g., paleoplacer gold). Papers on speciïŹc deposits or districts are divided
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fleet Empressite, AgTe, from the Empress-Josephine mine, Colorado, U.S.A.: Composition, physical properties...Cabral Geochemical characteristics of mesothermal gold mineralisation in the Pan-African (600 ± 150 Ma)...and geological continuity in high-nugget effect gold–quartz reefs: implications for resource estimation...Dominy, I.M. Platten, and M.D. Raine Copper and gold distribution at the Aitik deposit, GĂ€llivare area...AlmodĂłvar Gold characterisation as a guide to bedrock sources for the Estero Hondo alluvial gold mine, western
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Origin of Witwatersrand gold: a metamorphic devolatilisation–hydrothermal replacement model G. Neil Phillips*1...involving pyrophyllite-chloritoid are associated with gold in all goldfields, reflecting low pressure and 300...geothermal gradients. The origin of Witwatersrand gold can be explained by metamorphic devolatilisation...the time of its formation has already dissolved gold from these unenriched rocks (say at the y2 ppb Au...flow and facilitated fluid focussing. Deposition of gold from this auriferous fluid occurred where there
 
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