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Gold financed military campaigns and monumental building projects that stretched across the Mediterranean world. Egypt's Eastern Desert, rich in gold deposits, became a hub for mining activities. But extracting gold in antiquity was no easy feat. Mines in the Eastern Desert were remote, brutally hot, and water-starved.
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The environmental radioactivity of the Lake Manzala, Egypt, has been investigated to determine the level of the natural radioactivity and the radiological impact for the targeted area.
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Gold Mining Radioactivity In Egypt Apr. Egypt signs 4 contracts with 2nd largest gold exploration company in. CAIRO – 27 July 2021: The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, Tarek El Molla, witnessed the signing of 4 contracts to search for gold between the Mineral Resources Authority and the Canadian Barrick Gold Corporation, which is the largest ...
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A recent archaeological discovery in Egypt's Eastern Desert has revealed the harsh reality faced by miners during the Ptolemaic period. During excavations at the Ghozza site, a team of …
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4 Conclusions. The natural radioactivity levels of mine tailings from Vatukoula Gold Mine Fiji Limited (VGML) were determined. The activity concentration levels of 238 U, 232 Th and 40 K in soil mine tailing samples …
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Ancient gold mining in Egypt came to a phase of decline during the periods of the Roman-Byzantine and Early Arab rules. According to Sidebotham (2008), the major gold mining activities by the Romans in Egypt took place at the 1st-4th Centuries AD. In addition to newly explored gold mine sites, the mines from the Ptolemaic Period were enlarged ...
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Gold has been mined at Sukari since the Pharaonic and Roman times; Small-scale mining resumed between 1912 and 1914 with more substantial underground mining in the years from 1937 to 1951. Mining activity halted in 1958.
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Radiation exposures arising in the mining and min-eral processing industries are in three ways. These are ... around gold mining area in Itagunmodi, south-western, Nigeria, Journal of Radiation ...
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Selected sedimentary samples from different locations on the east and west banks of the Nile River in Upper Egypt were analysed by natural radioactivity measurements to detect the presence of ...
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It is believed that mining activities on the river and phosphate fertilizer applications on farmlands are the major inuence. Keywords Potentially toxic metals · Naturally occurring radioactive elements · Geochemical indices · Pra river · Gold mining · Ghana 1 Introduction Mining and metallurgical activities have been acknowledged
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The following fact sheets explain where radioactive material may be concentrated because of manufacturing or mineral extraction. Some of these things will be found in other places you visit in your day-to-day life. …
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International Journal of Mining Science. Most of the radioactive occurrences in the basement rocks of Egypt are present in the younger granites and associated pegmatites (Abd El Naby and Saleh, 2003). ... It comprises two gold mines Al Fawakhir and Al Sid. The study area is located between latitudes 25º 57' 00˝ and 26º 00' 00˝ N and ...
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Gold financed military campaigns and monumental building projects that stretched across the Mediterranean world. Egypt's Eastern Desert, rich in gold deposits, became a hub …
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Malleability, a physical property shared by many metals and most pronounced for gold, is the ability to be hammered into thin sheets, and it is in this form that most gold artifacts from ancient Egypt survive: solid, cast gold …
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Thus, the weak radioactivity of Wad i Hangaliya makes it suitable for gold extraction field industry. INTRODUCTION. The area of Wadi Hangaliya is occupying an ancient gold mining …
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The influence of gold mining on radioactivity of mining sites soil in Tanzania Erasto Focus1*, Mwemezi J. Rwiza1, Najat K. Mohammed2, Firmi P. Banzi3 1 The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania 2 Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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PDF | On Sep 20, 2023, Penabei Samafou and others published Evaluation of radiological hazards due to natural radioactivity in soil samples collected in and around some gold mining areas of the ...
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The present paper examines gold mineralization and its environmental consequences in the south Eastern Desert of Egypt, where artisanal mining is prevalent and …
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Furthermore, gold mining activities are linked with elevated concentrations of radioactivity mainly from radium ( 226 Ra), potassium ( 40 K), thorium
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Gold mining is one of the primary industry in Fiji, and it could expose the naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) that may produce health risk to the people working in mining.
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Measurements of natural radioactivity in surface soils from a gold mining area were performed by using aHPGe detector with a specially designed shield. Soil samples were collected from Um Garaiate mine in Southeastern area of Egypt and Mahd Ad-Dahab mine in Western of Al-Madina Al- Munawara area in Saudi Arabia. The obtained results of uranium and thorium series as …
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Mining is the process that deals with the extraction of geological minerals and other geological materials of economic value from their natural deposits in the earth crust (Mactaggart et al., 2018).Researchers has over the years concluded that mining is a destructive venture due to the effects of mining operations on the environment, and its media, as well as food and water …
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Radon (222 Rn) is a radioactive noble gas that is colourless and odourless (Mehmet & Omer, 2019; Shittu et al., 2020).Radon has a half-life (t 1 2) of 3.82 days and is a decay product of the uranium (238 U) series via 226 Ra which is available in soil in varying quantities (Fouladi et al., 2020; Micheal et al., 2007).Because of its high solubility in water, radon is always present …
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The radioactivity associated with artisanal and small-scale gold mining activities (ASM) carried out along the Ulindi River, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, was evaluated by gamma ...
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Gold mining is one of the primary industry in Fiji, and it could expose the naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) that may produce health risk to the people working in mining.
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Canadian companies B2Gold, Barrick Gold, Lotus Gold, Red Sea resources, Australia's Centamin and Britain's AKH Gold, are some of the companies that have been awarded concessions. Despite Egypt's history of gold mining, the country has possessed only one commercial gold mine, Centamin-operated 'Sukari'.
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The results of mean activity concentration of 226 Ra, 232 Th, and 40 K in fifteen soil samples from Lega Dembi gold mining, Ethiopia were determined and shown in Table 3 and Figures 2 and 3.The highest activity concentration of 226 Ra in the mining site was observed in sample code LD2 (28.81±1.32 Bq/kg), while in the living area was in LDC11 (9.5±0.55 Bq/kg).
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Key words: Airborne gamma ray spectrometry, radioactive hazards, El-Fawakhir gold mine, Eastern desert, radioactive risk factors. ----- Date of Submission: 20-08-2022 Date of Acceptance: 04-09-2022 ----- I. Introduction El-Fawakhir area is one of the most promising areas for mining activity in Egypt.It is located in the
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mining area. 2. Geological setting El-Fawakhir granite platoon hosts and El-Fawakhir gold mines, which are two of several gold mines in the Eastern Desert of Egypt that have been extensively ...
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