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Molybdenite from
Western Mine, Um Samiuki, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Western Mine, Um Samiuki, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:725283
Long-form Identifier:1:3:725283:9
GUID (UUID V4):476fa603-6ff1-4329-a842-7901ccd349ed
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
46.3km (28.8 miles) ā“˜Emerald mines, Wadi Abu Rasheid, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
75.2km (46.7 miles) ā“˜Homr Akarem, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals at the Um Samiuki volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt Received: 22 August...2004 Abstract The Um Samiuki Znā€“Cuā€“Pbā€“Ag mineralisation, south Eastern Desert, Egypt is hosted by felsic...at the top of rhyolitic breccia in the Western and Eastern mine areas. In each occurrence, a bornite-bearing...minerals, whereas arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, molybdenite and magnetite are accessory phases. Covellite...and covellite accommodate 80% of silver in the Um Samiuki deposit. Ag was incorporated in the crystal structure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
setting on the genesis of gold mineralization in Egypt N.S. Botros PII: DOI: Reference: S0169-1368(15)00102-X...setting on the genesis of gold mineralization in Egypt, Ore Geology Reviews (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...setting on the genesis of gold mineralization in Egypt N. S. Botros* Exploration Geologist AC CE P TE...NU SC R IP T Abstract The Eastern Desert of Egypt is well known as a gold-mining district since ancient...Nbā€“Ta and U mineralization in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Anorogenic gold mineralization connected with post-orogenic
Book
convert, refine and treat whatever you want to mine. From the initial evaluation and planning to the... Section ae 7 1 Introduction 2 3 Algeria Egypt 15 18 4 Gulf States 27 5 tlrag 28 6 7 Jordan...Tunisia 49 51 146 Yemen 53 17 18 19 The Red Sea Israel References 55 56 oF 20 List of Maps ...reserves and their active exportation of oil to the western nations. Another aspect of these countries is their...at the end. A special emphasis has been given to Egypt because of the relatively large number of documents
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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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Email: skojima@ucn.cl Funding information Esperanza mine geologists Abstract Modes of occurrence of Au-...zone within the hornfels is characterized by brown-red-colored granoblastic varieties, consisting of coarse-grained...Mala Formation at 2,000 to 1,500 m height above sea level (Figure 2a). In contrast, the Molybdenum Porphyry...Triassic meta-andesite horizon at <1,300 m height above sea level. The Principal and Molybdenum Porphyries exhibit...storage of molybdenite (PerellĆ³ et al., 2004; Bisso et al., 2009; Espinoza et al., 2014). Molybdenite from
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 Fawakhirā€“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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Ā· Yasser Abd El-Rahman Editors The Geology of Egypt Regional Geology Reviews Series Editors Roland...Geology of Egypt 123 ā€¢ Editors Zakaria Hamimi Department of Geology Benha University Benha, Egypt JesĆŗs...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...recumbent fold in the area north of Nuweibaā€™ City, western side of Gulf of Aqaba, Sinai (Photo by: Prof. M
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veins related to alkali-rich porphyry deposits in western Yunnan, Chinaā€”Liu Xianfan, Yang Zhengxi, Liu Jiaduo...Chenjiang, and Li Youguo 459 Re-Os dating of molybdenite from the Nannihu Mo (-W) orefield in the East...orogenic gold deposits in the Zhongchuan area, western Qinling and their geological significanceā€” Zhang...Daxin 524 Magmatic gold mineralization in the western Qinling orogenic belt: Geology and metallogenesis...and orogenic gold targets in the Lachlan orogen, western Victoria AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES Vol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from three Cuā€“Niā€“PGE prospects, Eastern Desert, Egypt Hassan M. Helmy* Geology Department, Faculty of...of Science, Minia University, 61111-Minia, Egypt Received 21 April 2004; accepted 11 April 2005 Available...three Cuā€“Niā€“PGE prospects in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Gabbro Akarem, Genina Gharbia and Abu Swayel. The...Tellurides; Solid solution; Cuā€“Niā€“PGE prospects; Egypt * Fax: +20 086 342601. E-mail address: hmhelmy@yahoo...Cuā€“Niā€“PGE prospects from the Eastern Desert of Egypt. These prospects have different magmatic, late-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Granitoid-associated gold mineralization in Egypt: a case study from the Atalla mine Basem Zoheir 1,2 & Fatma Deshesh...monzogranite intrusion in the Eastern Desert of Egypt are controlled by subparallel NE-trending brittle...Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt 2 Institute of Geosciences, University of Kiel...Science, Mansoura University, 35516, El-, Mansoura, Egypt 4 Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm...mining sites dispersed in the Eastern Desert (ED) of Egypt reflects significant mining activity in the region
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Ediacaran gold mineralization in the Sukhaybarat area, western Afif terrane, Saudi Arabia Hesham M. Harbi 1 &...Germany 2017 Abstract The Sukhaybarat East and Red Hill deposits, in the northeastern part of the Arabian...quartz-carbonate-pyrite veins (Red Hill), and subordinate gold-base metal sulfide veins. In the Red Hill deposit, alteration...assemblage. This assemblage is associated with molybdenite veins which appear to form late in the paragenetic...minimally disturbed cooling age for the tonalite. In the Red Hill area, granodiorite was emplaced at 615 Ā± 5 Ma
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...Cooper VMS mineralization in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: petrochemistry and recent developments...Ahola Occurrence of gold (electrum) in the Lousal mine, Iberian pyrite belt, Portugal ..................selected Pb-Zn-Cu deposits in eastern desert and Sinai Egypt ..................................................case study of a sediment hosted ore of Sardinia (western Italy) .......................................
Book (volume)
The alkali granites do not occur in the south-western third of the Arabian Shield nor in the south-eastern...syenite-shonkinite province located in the south-western part of the Arabian Shield is identified. N o economic...ensuing erosion and split into two segments by the Red Sea rift (Coleman et al, 1977). The Arabian portion...debatable. Although no dates are available along the western side of the shield from the Yemen that would provide...the Arabian Shield shield and are reported from Egypt as well (Schurmann, 1966). They are typically mediumgrained
Book (edition)
sometimes red tinges, cobalt shows pink shades, while iron displays pronounced tones of red, brown, and...specimens. Left: Internal reflections of hematite (red), azurite (blue), and malachite (green). Common...(bottom): Polysynthetic hematite twinning under XPL, red internal reflections are also visible. 5 Twinning...Pressure twins are commonly found in graphite or molybdenite, where they are easily identified. Optical properties...folded like paper. Left: Pressure twins in molybdenite. Penetration twins consist of two or more crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(http://www.scirp.org/journal/nr) Mineral Industry in Egypt-Part I: Metallic Mineral Commodities Abdel-Zaher...University, Cairo, Egypt, Geological Survey and Mineral Resources Authority, Cairo, Egypt. E-mail: abdel...31st, 2011. ABSTRACT The mineral potential in Egypt is quite high. Almost all sorts of industrial minerals...commodities exist in commercial amounts. However, Egypt imports many of the mineral commodities needed for...of the mining industry in Egypt. This is why the mining technology in Egypt is not very far from being
Report (issue)
Districts Dietmar Schwarz and Gaston Giuliani Africa: Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania, . . . . . . . . .52 Mozambique...fifty rowers, boarded and ordered the ship out to sea. When he was far from the island, he took off the...ring and with all eyes watching, threw it into the sea. He then returned home and was distraught. Some days...Asia: Pakistan, Afghanistan and India .......6 0 Old Mine Emeralds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...emeraude and into the English word emerald. Ancient Egypt, Hellas and Rome Academics disagree about when
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including hematite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, zircon, molybdenite and galena. SiO2 content varies between 64 and...(greenish yellow), morganite (pink) and bixbite (red). Goshenite is colourless, either due to the absence... Mozambique, Bulgaria, Canada, Austria, China, Egypt, India, Nigeria, Norway, Somalia, Spain, Nigeria...Plagioclase feldspar, quartz, muscovite, beryl, molybdenite, chalcopyrite, phenakite and pyrite are the major...1986). Although the earlier Somerset mine and the later Cobra mine have been the main source of the emeralds
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metalliferous sediments at brine pools in the Red Sea spreading centre. Mineral Deposits and Global...is international acceptance throughout both the western world and Soviet bloc, a publication of a few pages...Basin and Range Province, western USA 2 Porphyry molybdenum deposits of the western cordillera, North America...Namibia, Angola, Brazil and Uruguay Kimberlites in western Africa, Brazil and Australia Basic/ultrabasic intrusions...Cu, Ni, Pt, Au, Ti Base metal deposits in the Red Sea area Hydrothermal ore deposits landward of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, v. XXX, no. XX, pp. Xā€“X Combined Zircon, Molybdenite, and Cassiterite Geochronology and Cassiterite...the Tera-Wasserburg U-Pb concordia diagram. Molybdenite Re-Os dating returned a weighted mean model age...deposition of Sn and W. Rhenium contents of molybdenite from the Kuntabin deposit and many other Sn-W...2019). Myanmar, as an important component of the Western tin belt, was a significant tin and tungsten producer...and Maas, 2003). As a major repository of Re, molybdenite is an ideal mineral for Re-Os geochronology (Stein
Journal (issue)
2019 Articles Pyrosmalite-(Fe) from the Bjelke mine, Nordmark, Filipstad, VƤrmland, Sweden ...........Wadi Natrun evaporite deposits, Western Desert, Buhayara Governate, Egypt ................................PYROSMALITE(Fe) crystals on matrix, 7 cm, from the Bjelke mine, Sweden. Mim Mineralogical Museum collection, Beirut...from the recent discovery at the Nā€™Chwaning III mine in South Africa. Chris also has a small collection...MINERALS LIMITED Azurite with Malachite | Milpillas Mine, Mexico | 4.5 x 3.4 x 1.9cm orders@crystalclassics
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Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Annual Review...Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Applied Earth...Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Aquatic Geochemistry...Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Computers &...Elsevier Science, Customer Service Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Contributions
Report (issue)
nature. The known molybdenum mine1"als include molybdenite, wulfenite, and molybdite, only the first two...bend readily altho11gh they are not elastic Molybdenite is soft, its hardness being only from 1 to IĀ·5...pape1~ and a. greenisl1 str~eak on porcelain. Molybdenite ma,y be easily distinguished Ā£1Ā·om graphite,...given off when it is heated in an ope,n tube_ Molybdenite is decomposed by nitric acid, leaving a white...colour, althoĀ·u gh sometimes greĀ·e n., brown, bright red, or colourless. It.s strea,k is white. Wulfenite
Journal (issue)
............................... A MOLYBDENITE OCCURRENCE IN EGYPT ................................................................................ MOLYBDENITE IN FRENCH MOROCCO .............................the vein on Garnet Hill was opened as a scheelite mine and it wac; in one of the cuts, along seams and...describing and analyzing a Rumanian specimen, in Alf red Johannsen's "Petrography", in Harker's ''Metamorphism"...pockets have been broken and are filled with mud and red clay which is very bard to clean from the zeolites
Report (chapter)
Geology Department, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt 3 Geology Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown...still in production, for example the Sukari gold mine (Helmy et al. 2004; Abd El-Wahed et al. 2016). Extensive...the Sudanese part of the shield (e.g. Hassai gold mine), the Butana area and the Nubia Mountains (e.g....contribution focuses on four ore deposits, namely Um Balad, Atalla, Gidami and Fatira gold mines. Thermodynamic...Simpliļ¬ed geological map of the Eastern Desert of Egypt and Sinai showing the gold occurrences, the distribution
Report (issue)
particular were then willing to pay large sums for molybdenite concentrate, and in America the consumption largely...any practical importance, namely molybdenite and wulfenite. Molybdenite : Molybdenum sulphide (MoS2) ,...of greenish yellow or grey, less often orange or red, with a resinous lustre and white streak. It is easily...iron molybdate, produced by alteraĀ­ tion of molybdenite in the presence of iron compounds. This mineral...clearly that the vast majority of occurrences of molybdenite are either in, or closely associated with, acid
 
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