The economic iron ore deposits of Egypt are located at Bahariya Oasis in the Lower Middle Eocene limestone. The main iron minerals are goethite, hematite, siderite, pyrite, and jarosite.Manganese minerals are pyrolusite and manganite. Gangue minerals are barite, glauconite, gibbsite, alunite, quartz, halite, kaolinite, illite, smectite, …
This paper gives new insight into the genesis of cherty ironstone deposits. The research was centered on well-exposed, unique cherty ironstone mineralization associated with Eocene carbonates from the northern part of the Bahariya Depression (Egypt). The economically important ironstones occur in the Naqb Formation (Early …
Geology and stratigraphy of the iron ores. The Bahariya Oasis is a large depression in the Western Desert of Egypt with hot, arid climatic conditions. It is located about 270 km SW of Cairo and 180 km west of the Nile Valley (Fig. 1). Economic iron ore deposits with an average of 47.6 wt.% of Fe
This paper deals with the mineralogy and geochemistry of the economically most interesting Egyptian iron-ore deposits. It is specifically concerned with the examination of the iron-ores occurring at East Aswan, in the Eastern Desert, at Bahariya Oasis, in the Western Desert, and in several localities of the Eastern Desert near the Red Sea coast. …
Introduction. Economic iron ores (270 million metric tons of iron ore deposits) with an average of 47.6% Fe occur in the Bahariya Oasis (Said, 1990).The iron ores are exploited now as raw materials for the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company, Helwan, Egypt. Due to their geological and economic significance, such deposits have been …
The mining work at El-Gedida iron mine, El-Bahariya Oasis, in the Western Desert of Egypt extracts commercial iron ore deposits without attention paid to the large glauconite deposits overlying...
Although Mn is one of the major impurities in the economic iron ores from the Bahariya Oasis, information on its modes of occurrence and origin is lacking in previous studies.
Beneficiation of low grade Ghorabi iron ore, Bahariya Oasis, Egypt: a case study. M. I. Al-Wakeel and M. K. Abd El-Rahman View all authors and affiliations. Volume 115, Issue 4. ... A. M. (1967), 'Some problems about the concentration of the iron of El-Bahariya Oasis', MSc Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, p. 120 ...
Even today, the mining of iron ore continues to be a vital industry. Even Ramesses II, in the Temple of Amun at Luxor, refers to the Bahariya as a place of mining. Of course agricultural products …
Iron ores occurring mainly in lower Eocene limestone at Gebel Ghorabi, in the northern part of the oasis, include an oolitic type consisting essentially of goethite, a vesicular type containing hematite with pyrolusite and psilomelane, a hard, dark brown type consisting of goethite and hematite with some pyrolusite, and a low-grade limonitic type.
The economic iron ore deposits of Egypt are located at Bahariya Oasis in the Lower Middle Eocene limestone. The main iron minerals are goethite, hematite, siderite, pyrite, and jarosite.
El-Harra and Bahariya are other towns in the oasis, with the latter giving its name to the oasis for being the closest to the small mass of water that emerges here. In addition to agriculture and tourism, mining is another current economic activity dedicated to the extraction of iron.
Integrated rock magnetic, palaeomagnetic and magnetic fabric studies have been carried out, in order to rely a better understanding of the age and origin of the …
Mineralogy, geochemistry and origin of Mn in the high-Mn iron ores, Bahariya Oasis, Egypt Hassan M. Baioumy a,⁎, Mohamed Z. Khedr b, Ahmed H. Ahmed c,1 a Central Metallurgical R & D Institute, P ...
The Bahariya Oasis is a large depression in the Western Desert of Egypt with hot, arid climatic conditions. It is located about 270 km SW of Cairo and 180 km west of the Nile Valley (Fig. 1).Economic iron ore deposits with an average of 47.6 wt.% of Fe (Said, 1990) occur in the Bahariya Oasis.The ores are situated at the northern part of …
The presence of Cenomanian rocks in the Bahariya Oasis was first recorded by Lyons (1894), with the identification of Exogyra sp. fossils. Further work on the stratigraphic framework of this region was done by Ball and Beadnell (1903), who established that the oldest exposed rocks in the Oasis are of Cenomanian age. Stromer …
The Bahariya oasis used to have two names in ancient Egypt, the first one is "DSDS" which dates to the Middle Kingdom (2040 - 1782 BC) and was found written on the back of a scarab while the other …
1. Introduction. The economic Bahariya iron ore bands and their concretions are located at the lower part of the Lutetian Naqb and Qazzun Formations in the Bahariya Oasis (Said Citation 1990).Origin of the Bahariya iron ores, in previous literatures, ranges from supergene origin, including direct precipitation from the seawater, weathering of the …
The Bahariya Oasis is one of Egypt's largest oases, containing both natural desert attractions and ancient ruins such as the Golden Mummies.. ... The Ghurabi, Maghrafa, and Dist mountains surround it, and tourism and iron ore production are the primary economic sectors. Because it produces agricultural products like guavas, …
IR IR patterns of iron ore samples from the Bahariya Oasis representing high quality ore (very low Mn contents), iron ores with some pyrolusite, and high-Mn samples from El Gedida and Ghorabi–Nasser without pyrolusite are shown in Table 4. All samples contain the characteristic OH stretching (νOH) and HOH bending (δOH) vibrational bands at ...
The Bahariya Oasis is connected with the Nile Valley by two main roads. The first is 350 km NE–SW asphaltic road extending from Giza town to Bawiti (the oasis capital). The second road is the motor-track that starts from Samalut in the Nile Valley to the north of El-Gedida iron ore mine.
This Oasis is one of the most geologically important areas in the Western Desert, and attracted considerable attention especially in the last four decades, since the discovery of iron ore deposits in the El Gedida, Ghorabi and El Harra localities (Said, 1962, El Akkad and Issawi, 1963, El Bassyouny, 1970, Issawi, 1972, Khalifa, 1977, Franks ...
DOI: 10.1016/J.OREGEOREV.2012.12.009 Corpus ID: 129591715; Mineralogy, geochemistry and origin of Mn in the high-Mn iron ores, Bahariya Oasis, Egypt @article{Baioumy2013MineralogyGA, title={Mineralogy, geochemistry and origin of Mn in the high-Mn iron ores, Bahariya Oasis, Egypt}, author={Hassan Baioumy and …
Characteristics of the Bahariya Oasis iron ore The Bahariya iron ore represents the sole source for the steel industry in Egypt (Salem 2017). The mining areas of this iron ore are Ghorabi (3.5 km2), El Harra (2.9 km2), and El Gedida (15 km2) (Baioumy et al. 2014). The iron ore deposits at Bahariya Depression occupy one stratigraphic horizon ...
The history of Bahariya Oasis Like other Egyptian oases, Bahariya Oasis was an important stop point on the trading route between the Western Desert and the Nile Valley. ... The main economic sectors of this society are iron ore mining, tourism, and agriculture as they are growing guavas, mangos, dates, and olives. ...
The iron ore lies at the basal part of the Naqb Formation (Ypresian, lower Eocene) replacing carbonates. The origin of the Bahariya iron ore has been discussed by several workers since the early work of Ball and Beadnell (1903) who considered the …
A total of 80 oriented block samples were collected from 10 sites covering the three iron mining areas at Bahariya Oasis (El Gedida, Ghorabi and El Harra) within an area located between latitudes ...
Baioumy et al. (2014) suggested a seawater precipitation of the Bahariya iron ores from the analysing the major, trace, and rare earth elements of different iron ore types from the Ghorabi and El ...
Origin of the Bahariya iron ores, in previous literatures, ranges from super-gene origin, including direct precipitation from the seawater, weathering of the overlying glauconites, …
The economic Bahariya iron ore bands and their concretions are located at the lower part of the Lutetian Naqb and Qazzun Formations in the Bahariya Oasis (Said …
The geological heritage of the central Western Desert of Egypt was established on three areas, namely the Bahariya Oasis, the Farafra Oasis and vicinities, …
