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| Title | Au-Cu Resources in Some Mines from Antiquity in the South Gabal Um Monqul and Gabal Al Kharaza Prospects, North Eastern Desert, Egypt |
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| Journal | Geosciences |
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| Authors | Atef, Abdallah | Author |
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| Surour, Adel A. | Author |
| Madani, Ahmed A. | Author |
| Azer, Mokhles K. | Author |
| Year | 2023 | Volume | < 13 > |
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| Issue | < 9 > |
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| DOI | doi:10.3390/geosciences13090283Search in ResearchGate |
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| Mindat Ref. ID | 16858304 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:16858304:3 |
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| Full Reference | Atef, Abdallah, Surour, Adel A., Madani, Ahmed A., Azer, Mokhles K. (2023) Au-Cu Resources in Some Mines from Antiquity in the South Gabal Um Monqul and Gabal Al Kharaza Prospects, North Eastern Desert, Egypt. Geosciences, 13 (9) doi:10.3390/geosciences13090283 |
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| Plain Text | Atef, Abdallah, Surour, Adel A., Madani, Ahmed A., Azer, Mokhles K. (2023) Au-Cu Resources in Some Mines from Antiquity in the South Gabal Um Monqul and Gabal Al Kharaza Prospects, North Eastern Desert, Egypt. Geosciences, 13 (9) doi:10.3390/geosciences13090283 |
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| Abstract/Notes | Since Antiquity, sustainable resources of gold and copper have been mined at two prominent prospects in the north Eastern Desert of Egypt, namely the south Gabel Um Monqul (SGUM) and Gabal Al Kharaza (GKZ). Mineralization is hosted by Neoproterozoic shield rocks represented by dacite and monzo- to syenogranite at the SGUM prospect whereas they are diorite, granodiorite, and quartz feldspar porphyry at the GKZ prospect. These hosts have been emplaced in an island arc environment from calc-alkaline magmas with a peraluminous to metaluminous signature. They are hydrothermally altered including albitization, sericitization, silicification, epidotization, and chloritization. The Au and Cu mineralizations are confined to shear zones that lately filled with auriferous quartz veins adjacent to mineralized alteration zones. In the GKZ prospect, the old trenches trend mainly in a NWβSE direction whereas it is NEβSW and NWβSE in the SGUM prospect. Evidence of shearing ranges from megascopic conjugate fractures and shear planes in the outcrops to microscopic sheared and crumbled Au-Cu ore assemblages dominated by Fe-Cu sulfides, specularite, and barite. Microscopic investigation suggests that the formation of specularite is due to the shearing of early existing magnetite. The ore textures and paragenetic sequence indicate that pyrite in the alteration zones is oxidized, leading to the liberation of gold up to 3.3 g/t. The formulae of the analyzed electrum lie in the range Au74.5-76.8 Ag22.2-24.5. Integration of the field, geochemistry, and mineral chemistry data, combined with the gold fire assay data prove the presence of sustainable amounts of disseminated Au and Cu, not only in the mineralized quartz veins, but also in the alteration zones. Data materialized in our paper show similarities in the style of mineralization at the SGUM and the GKZ prospects with iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits elsewhere in the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) and other world examples. |
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| Locality | Mineral(s) |
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| Gabal Al Kharaza, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt | β Actinolite, β Albite, β Anorthite, β Anorthoclase, β Anthophyllite, β Apatite, β Baryte, β Biotite, β Breccia, β Chalcopyrite, β Chlorapatite, β Chlorite Group, β Chrysocolla, β Clinochlore, β Covellite, β Dacite, β Diorite, β Enstatite, β Feldspar Group, β Feldspar porphyry, β Gabbro, β Goethite, β Granitoid, β Granodiorite, β Hematite, Hornblende, β Ilmenite, β K Feldspar, β Limonite, β Magnetite, β Martite, β Muscovite, β Native Gold, β Oligoclase-Albite, β Orthoclase, β Perthite, β Phlogopite, β Plagioclase, β Porphyry, β Psilomelane, β Pycnochlorite, β Pyrite, β Quartz, β Quartz-feldspar porphyry, β Ripidolite, β Rutile, β Sericite, β Specularite, β Syenogranite, β Titanite, β Tremolite |
| South Gabel Um Monqul, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt | β Actinolite, β Albite, β Amphibole Supergroup, β Anorthite, β Anorthoclase, β Anthophyllite, β Apatite, β Baryte, β Biotite, β Breccia, β Chalcopyrite, β Chlorapatite, β Chlorite Group, β Clinochlore, β Covellite, β Dacite, β Diorite, β Enstatite, β Epidote, β Gabbro, β Goethite, β Granite, β Hematite, Hornblende, β Ilmenite, β K Feldspar, β Kaolin, β Magnetite, β Martite, β Monzogranite, β Muscovite, β Native Gold, β Oligoclase-Albite, β Orthoclase, β Phlogopite, β Plagioclase, β Porphyry, Potash Feldspar, β Pycnochlorite, β Pyrite, β Pyroxene Group, β Quartz, β Quartz-feldspar porphyry, β Ripidolite, β Rutile, β Sericite, β Specularite, β Syenogranite, β Titanite, β Tremolite |
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