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Sericite from
Semna mine, Bir Semna, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Semna mine, Bir Semna, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:573540
Long-form Identifier:1:3:573540:2
GUID (UUID V4):67997149-6ca9-4f4c-9761-f7e85c3a0a92
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
15.6km (9.7 miles) ⓘGidami deposit, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
16.2km (10.1 miles) ⓘKab Amiri, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
33.3km (20.7 miles) ⓘAtalla Mine, Qena Governorate, Egypt
34.4km (21.4 miles) ⓘWadi Ras Abda, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
42.2km (26.2 miles) ⓘAbu Zawal Au mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
66.8km (41.5 miles) ⓘGebel Gattar, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
69.1km (42.9 miles) ⓘWadi Kariem, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
79.4km (49.3 miles) ⓘWadi Belih, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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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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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
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their host rocks from the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: A working genetic model and tectonic implications...their host rocks from the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: A working genetic model and tectonic implications...their host rocks from the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: A working genetic model and tectonic implications...Faculty of Science, Moharram Bey, Alexandria, Egypt. E-mail: kebeid@yahoo.com and hhhelba@yahoo.com...specularite. Key words: Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, Banded Iron Formation, Thermobarometry, Cathodoluminescence
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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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Late Proterozoic Age in the Central EasternDesert, Egypt. Geologyand Tectonic Setting P. K. SIMS U.S. GeologicalSurvey...Washington98368 Abstract In the centralEasternDesert of Egypt, depositsof iron-formation of the Algomatype occur...complexesthat characterizemany Arcbean Desert of Egypt (Fig. 1). The iron-formationsoccur as sporadicdepositsin...JapaneseGeologicalMission, 1977). The iron-formationsin Egypt resemblethose found in Archcan terranes. and youngervolcanicrock...calatedmetamorphosed lava flowsand layered volandthe Red Sea.This terraneis the westernsegment canogenicrocksthat
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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...of hydrated silicate phases (i.e. chlorite and sericite) within and adjacent to the shear zones points...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
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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...rare gold. Alteration mineralogy, dominated by sericite, drusy quartz, kaolinite, calcite, and specular
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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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Island-Arc Assemblages, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Petrological and Geochemical Constraints Sherif...Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar...Al-Azhar University, Assiut Branch, Assiutt 71524, Egypt Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University...Amiri area in the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt comprises ophiolitic rocks, island arc metasediments...Island-Arc Assemblages, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Petrological and Geochemical Constraints. Keywords:
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ensuing erosion and split into two segments by the Red Sea rift (Coleman et al, 1977). The Arabian portion...the Arabian Shield shield and are reported from Egypt as well (Schurmann, 1966). They are typically mediumgrained...of the Arabian Shield are mainly gray, pink, or red, medium- to coarsegrained, hypersolvus alkali granites...field, they can often be distinguished by their dark red to almost black weathered surface and their tendency... zircon, fluorite, and in several samples brick-red elpidite (Na 2 ZrSi 6 Oi 5Ή2Ο). Plagioclase is usually
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‘Series’ or Group 36 (v) Injection granite and red granite 36 (vi) Acid and basic dykes 36 (vii)...(c) YIROL GROUP 75 (a) TERTIARY FORMATIONS, RED SEA LITTORAL, 79 (i) Mukawwar Formation (late retaceous...BASALTS OF THE KHOR SHINAB AND THE BASALTS OF THE RED SEA LITTORAL CANIC OUTCROPS IN DARFUR AND RHYOLITES...plains 139 141 141 147 (c) TERTIARY FORMATIONS, RED SEA LITTORAL, (i) Hamamit Formation 148 (ii) Maghersum...FRONTIER ZONE 17O (c) JUBAL EL BAHR EL AHMER, RED SEA LITTORAL, (i) Jubal el Bahr el Ahmer IV. STRATIGRAPHICAL
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AHMER, MO- SEQUENCE (v) Injection granite and red granite (vi) Acid and basic dykes Il. HISTORY OF...77 FORMATIONS ao) (a) TERTIARY FORMATIONS, RED SEA LITTORAL, THE ISLANDS AND SUAKIN ARCHIPELAGO (i)...FORMATION (c) YIROL GROUP 4. TERTIARY 97, (j) 72 SEA LITTORAL (f) JEBEL MARRA VOLCANIC COMPLEX (i) ...FAREIG BASALTS (€) KHOR SHINAB AND THE BASALTS OF THE RED go (g) KUTUM AND MELIT AREAS, BERTI OR TAGABO HILLS... (c) PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT DEPOSITS OF THE RED SEA LITTORAL (i) Continental facies (ii) Marine facies
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zones at El-Hoteib area, South Eastern Desert, Egypt, using remote sensing data analysis Safwat S. Gabr...zones at El-Hoteib area, South Eastern Desert, Egypt, using remote sensing data analysis, Ore Geology...ALTERATION ZONES AT ELHOTEIB AREA, SOUTH EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT, USING REMOTE PT SENSING DATA ANALYSIS SC RI...El-Nozha ElGedida (P.O. Box: 1564 Alf Maskan), Cairo, Egypt. (2) The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute...MA Gold has been mined in the Eastern Desert of Egypt since the time of the Pharaohs, yet the geological
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talc-copper deposits of Darhib-Abu Jurdi area, Egypt: Petrogenesis and remote sensing characterization...Department, National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt 2 Safaa M. Hassan2 | Mohamed F. Sadek2 Economic...Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt sulfide system in Darhib-Abu Jurdi bimodal-mafic...Department, National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt. Email: mwalibik2007@yahoo.com rift-related environment...com/publon/10. 1002/gj.3742. South Eastern Desert of Egypt. These Pan-African metavolcanics were erupted in
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El-Delihimmi Granites, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt Asran Mohamed Asran, Ashraf Emam, Abdelhamid El-Fakharani...El-Delihimmi Granites, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, LITHOS (2017), doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.03.022...EL-DELIHIMMI GRANITES, CENTRAL EASTERN DESERT OF EGYPT. Asran Mohamed Asrana, Ashraf Emamb, Abdelhamid...Sohag University, Egypt Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Egypt c Department of...intrusion, located in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, cuts the core of a major anticlinal structure of
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formation (BIF) in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt: Mineralogical and geochemical implications for...Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt Geology Department, Marshall University, USA LagerstĂ€ttenforschung...Keywords: Gebel El Hadid BIF Volcanic exhalation Egypt Eastern Desert Neoproterozoic a b s t r a c t The...island-arc/ophiolitic assemblage of the central Eastern Desert of Egypt, where it alternates concordantly with low-grade...2006) and BIF from the Arabian–Nubian Shield of Egypt and Saudi Arabia (Stern et al., ⁎ Corresponding
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Uweinat inlier 11 Bayuda and Nubian deserts and Red Sea Hills 12 Nile Valley from Wadi Halfa to the Third...Tehilla, Red Sea Prc)vince 14 Port Sudan and the central Red Sea Hills 14 Northern Red Sea Hills of Sudan...Sudan 15 Eastern Desert of southern Egypt 16 Saudi Arabia 1 7 Sabaloka inlier and Butana Plains of central...beds of Egypt 27 Tertiarv formations Hudi Chert Formation 27 Tertiary beds of southern Egypt and East...East Africa 28 Coastal deposits of the Red Sea margin 28 Quaternary formations Umm Ruwaba Formation and
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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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schist, carbonaceous dolomitic quartz schist, sericite schist, and grey and relatively clean that do...Williams‐Jones, A. E. (2006). Formation of the Campbell‐Red Lake gold deposit by H2O‐poor, CO2‐ dominated fluids...auriferous and barren North Dipper Veins in the Sigma Mine, Val d'Or, Canada: Constraints from structural,...on mechanisms of ore deposition at the Samgwang mine (Republic of Korea)—A mesothermal, vein‐hosted gold–silver...gold mineralization at the Semna mine area, central Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence from hydrothermal
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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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particularly in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, North America, and China. Many of these...materials excavated in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, China, and North America. The word “lithology”.... . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.1 Granite grinder, Mine Dunquash, Egyptian Eastern Desert . . . . . . ....knife with carved ivory handle, Gerzean period, Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . 72 4.4 Chert Levallois core...notched chert biface (shaft straightener?) from Bir Umm Tenedba, Egyptian Eastern Desert . . . . . .
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and silica t o streams emptying into the Animikie sea. However, the detrital rocks in the Animikie basin...1964. The Vulcan iron formation a t the Groveland mine, Iron Mountain, Michigan. Econ. Geol., 59: 1094-1106...degree of restriction, with the present Okhotsk Sea. Horwitz and Smith (1978), challenging this barred...“depression” referred t o is a depression relative t o sea level, resulting in submersion and not simply a depression...continental margin shelf or a closed intracratonic sea. Several descriptive summaries of the Hamersley Basin
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coins for $7 .50. Sepulchral stele. Shieh Abada, Egypt. c. 5th Century A.D. Limestone. Complete original...Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, and far up the Nile in Egypt-fragments or whole vases of a distinctive pottery...decorated with lustrous paint varying from orange-red to brownish black. Many of the smaller vases (Figure...with perhaps a zone of geometricized flowers or sea shells on the shoulder. Other, larger vases have...correspondence in cuneifonn script) 4 found in Egypt, as well as f ro1n the range of writing systems
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Belgian Congo 51 133 Bantjes 246 Barramia Gold Mine 187 Barramia Mining and Exploration Report 240 Basset...Mines Report 366 Bauchi Prospects 248 Bauchi Tin Mine 61 Beatty, A. Chester, v. Guggenheim Exploration...Oilfields Of Canada Craig, K. H. Cunningham Crcison Mine, Cripple Creek Crime, The Great Cripple Creek Developments...Proprietary Rand Proprietary Developments Ebner Gold Mine, Alaska El Oro.San Rafael Vein at ..F.L.Allan &...Johannesburg Letter 27, '145, +205, Latent Errors in Mine Sampling Johnson, A. D J. B. Richardson Journey
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Australian Metal Position H. R. Sleeinan. 33 Australian Mine Tax . . . . . . . . *206 47 247 Report...Boovsens 126 218 Boston Creek, Ontario Bradeu Copper Mine, Smelting at. (m.d.) ... 117 344 Bragg. W. H X-rays...Institute and a Charter Canadian Mine Taxes 187, F. H. Hamilton. Canadian Mine Taxes Cape Copper Report .....Chili Copper Central Mining and Investment Chaffers Mine '. . ' Chalcocite, Origin of . Collins, J...247 295 68 189 217 147 {m.d.) .... Champion Reef Mine Chemicals, Prices of Chendai Consolidated Chendai
 
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