El Maghara mine

El Maghara mine
El Maghara mine is located in Egypt
El Maghara mine
Location within Egypt
Location
ProductsCoal
Opened1964
CompanyEgyptian General Authority for Mineral Resources

The El Maghara mine is an underground coal mine in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.[1] Opened in 1964,[1] the mine produces low-rank bituminous coal.[2] Located about 250 km northeast of Cairo, it is the only coal mine in Egypt.[3] Operations were approved to resume in 2014, with reserves estimated at 21 million tons of coal.[4]

The mine is run by the state-owned Egyptian General Authority for Mineral Resources.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Boskovitch, Angela (11 March 2015). "Photo Essay: Fighting for Creative Cinema". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  2. ↑ Seifelnassr, A.A.S. (1996). "Wetting properties of an Egyptian coal and their relation to its flotation behaviour". In Kemal, M.; Arslan, V.; Canbazoglu, M. (eds.). Changing Scopes in Mineral Processing: Proceedings of the 6th international symposium. CRC Press. p. 209. ISBN 9789054108290.
  3. ↑ Amer, HA; Shawky, S; Hussein, MI; Abd el-Hady, ML (2002). "Radiological study of exposure levels in El Maghara underground coal mine". Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 4 (4): 583–587. doi:10.1039/b202693g. PMID 12196005.
  4. 1 2 "Government approves operation of El Maghara coal mine: official". Cairo Post. 2014-05-14. Archived from the original on 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2022-07-23.