The Hangaliya Gold Mine
 Gebel Nugrus, Marsa Alam, South Eastern Desert, Egypt
Richard De Nul: Churchilllaan 330, 2900 Schoten, Belgium

The Mine

The Hangaliya prospect consists of several mineralised veins located within Gattarian aged granitic wall rocks intruded into felsic volcanics. The main mine workings were in the El Shagara section and are developed on a narrow north east trending quartz vein that dips at 50° to the north. The mine was developed over four levels, the second level being the adit level.

 

 

 

 

 

A view at the inside of the Hangaliya mine with a shaft to the lower levels (left). The level on the other image goes along for about 70 metres into the hill. A quick investigation didn’t show any quartz veins or traces of exploitation.

The western vein (lode) has a strike extension of 700 m, and although gold bearing, no other information is available.

The northern vein is known to have gold mineralization associated with altered granites which occur associated with quartz veins in the hematite stained sheared and altered zone. Probably the two veins are interconnected by the lowest level of which the depth could be estimated approximately 30 metres below the adit level.



 



 
A view at the upper level (left) seen from the adit level. On the other image we see the remains of a base for a fixed crane that raised the ore from the lower levels. The open vertical shaft can be seen on the upper right corner of the image. On the base a quartz sample collected from the Western adit level can be observed.  Later examination of the rock didn’t show any gold or any other mineralization.

Microscopic analisis of quartz veins and host rocks of the important gold occurrences at Hangaliya, yielded three different stages of mineralization.