Um Garaiat Gold Mine
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Found Here
Geology and deposit
- Deposit type
- Hydrothermal Vein
- Host rock
- Schist
- Associated rock
- Gray Crystalline Graphitic Sheets — Schist
- Orebody form
- VEIN
- Tectonic setting
- Dike Cuts Through Quartz Vein
The Main Structures Run Parallel To The Red Sea Graben, Fissures
Mineralization In Quartz Veins
Mining history
- Status
- Past Producer
- Workings
- Underground
Records and references
SRC. REF: OSMAN MOHARRAM AND OTHERS, 1970, STUDIES ON SOME MINERALDEPOSITS OF EGYPT, CONTRACT NO. 1247M.B EL KADI, JUNE 1976, A REVIEW OF THE PROMISING GOLD BEARING DEPOSIT, EASTERN DESERT, EGYPTOSMAN MOHARRAM AND OTHERS, 1970, STUDIES ON SOME MINERAL DEPOSITS OF EGYPT, CONTRACT NO. 12471904 PRODUCTION1907 PRODUCTION1912 UNDERGROUND MURLAN1934 UNDERGROUND JENKINS1967 EXPLORATION
Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10079497 — view the source record
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Location on Map
Coordinates: 22.39968, 33.38467
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