| Location: | Egypt, Africa |
| Lat / long: | 29.0326, 28.50148 |
| dep_id: | 10079548 |
| mrds_id: | W029177 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Iron |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Goethite, Hematite |
| gangue: | Ankerite, Aragonite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony, Chamosite, Cliachite, Dolomite, Gibbsite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Siderite |
| orebody_fm: | LAYERED, BLANKET |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Siderite Altered To Hydrogoethite |
| Reporter: | Tabarak |
| hrock_unit: | Bahiriya Formation, Composed Of Alternating Bands Of Sandstone, Sandy Clays And Clays With Angular Ferruginous Bands, Which Underlies The Iron Bed With Angular Unconformity |
| hrock_type: | Clay, Mud,Sandstone |
| Structure: | Transverse Faults Trending East-West Cut Across Gabel Ghorabi, Minor Faults In The Southern And Northern Part Of Gabel Ghorabi. A Set Of Step Faults Trending East-West Cut Across The Southern Ghorabi Iron Beds |
| tectonic: | The Ore Lie Unconformably Above The Eroded Surface Of Bahariya |
| disc_yr: | 1975 |
| discr: | G.S.E. |
| References: |
- Deposit:: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF EGYPT-IRON ORE DEPOSITS-OF GHORABI NASSER AREAS-VOL1 TEXT BY B.EL NAASAN AND A.EL TAHLAWI
- Deposit:: AFIA, M.S. AND NESSIN, S. 1952 INT REPORT NO. 3/54 GEO. SURV. CAIRO
- Deposit:: EL SHAZLY, E.M. 1959 INT REPORT NO. 31/59 GEO. SURV. CAIRO
- Deposit:: EL SHAZLY, E.M. 1962 G.S.E. CAIRO. P.50
- Deposit:: 1952 FIELD WORK AFIA AND NESSIM
- Deposit:: 1958 FIELD WORK ZAATOUT
- Deposit:: 1962 FIELD WORK EL SHAZLY
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