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Study of the Geologic Features and Uranium Content of the Cataclastic Rocks at Wadi Sikait, South Eastern Desert, Egypt by SSNTDs |
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PP: 111-118 |
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doi:10.18576/jrna/050205
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Author(s) |
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M.A. Ali,
Y.A. Abdel-Razek,
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Abstract |
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| Wadi Sikait area is located about 90 km southwest of Marsa Alam town in the Southern Eastern Desert of Egypt. Geological features of the cataclastic rocks at wadi Sikait area are studied in details by the intensive field geology, petrography, and mineralogy in the one new region. The mineralization associated with mineralized cataclastic (mylonite) rocks in wadi Sikait area are columbite, uranothorite, monazite and zircon with uranothorite as inclusion and dissolution attack.
No evidence that the cataclastic rocks extend across wadi Sikait. This may be due to the dilution of the leachable uranium minerals downstream the Wadi or the shallow measurements of radon concentrations. Uranium content in the cataclastic rocks east of wadi Sikai is estimated to reach 1000ppm which triggers a development uranium production cycle at the wadi.
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