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Antigorite from
Wadi Bezah, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Classification
Species:Antigorite
Formula:Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Antigorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wadi Bezah, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:619806
Long-form Identifier:1:3:619806:0
GUID (UUID V4):52cbb586-1fdd-4c94-b263-1cafd2f1ba63
Nearest other occurrences of Antigorite
25.4km (15.8 miles) Chromitite outcrops, Barramiya, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
34.7km (21.5 miles) Atud mine, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
52.9km (32.9 miles) Wadi Um Huitate, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
81.5km (50.6 miles) Wadi El-Lawi, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
81.5km (50.7 miles) Wadi El-Zarka, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pan African Proterozoic ophiolite complexes of Egypt Received: 26 October 1999 / Accepted: 28 June 2000...Desert of Egypt and north-east Sudan. The ultrama®c bodies in the Eastern Desert of Egypt are mostly...podiform chromitites and associated peridotites of Egypt are similar to those of Phanerozoic ophiolites....Institute (CMRDI), P.O. Box 87, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt controlling genesis of the crust±mantle system...zone setting. The late Proterozoic ophiolites of Egypt are possibly a fragment of oceanic lithosphere modi®ed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpentinites were proved to consist of pure antigorite, lizardite, or clinochrysotile, or of mixtures...Lizardite, which is reported for the first time in Egypt, is found to be of common occurrence. Talc, tremolite...dolomite, and talc together with minor amounts of antigorite, magnetite, goethite, and occasionally a little...are of wide distribution in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and are typically of Alpine type, occurring either...were generally considered to consist of either antigorite only (Amin, I948; Moustafa and Abdalla, I954;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gustar, blende, 153. Egypt Angouria, antigorite, 394. Bir Meneiga, lizardite, antigorite, 394. Gebel Atud...Atud, antigorite, 394. Gebel el-Rubshi, lizardite, 394. Gebel Karabkansi, lizardite, 394. Gebel Moweleh...Moweleh, antigorite, 394. Gebel Umm-Salatit, lizardite, 394. Qena-Qoseir road, antigorite, lizardite, clinochlore...Hamed, antigorite, goethite, 394. Sukkari, antigorite, 394. Wadi Alaqui, antigorite, 394. Wadi Atalla...Atalla, antigorite, 394Wadi Badia, lizardite, clinochrysotile, 394. Wadi Beitan, lizardite, antigorite, olivine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tasmania, anal., opt., cell-size, 942. Angouria, Egypt, antigorite, 493. Anorthite, New Zealand, anal., opt....conditions for coexistence with hornblende, 923. Antigorite, Egypt, anal., X-ray, d.t.a., 394. Apatite, Nigeria...and MARSHALL(M.), Determination of water by infra-red analysis, 256. AUCOTT (J. W.) see ATrEWELL (P. B...exsolution of quartz from, 815. Bit Meneiga, Egypt, antigorite, lizardite, 394. Bismuthinite, range of Sb...hornblende-cummingtonite parageneses, 923. Chromite, Egypt, 394; New Zealand, 375. Chursdorf, Penig, Saxony
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ophiolitic ultramafic rocks in Eastern Desert of Egypt: implications for petrogenesis and metasomatic processes...University, Zagazig, Egypt; bGeological Sciences Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt ABSTRACT ARTICLE...localities in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, namely; Wadi Muweilha, Wadi Arayis and Gabal Kurbiyay. The present...basement exposures of the Eastern Desert (ED) of Egypt. Few complete successions and many dismembered ophiolitic...in the central and southern sectors of the ED of Egypt (Figure 1), while entirely lacking from the northern
 
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