Name: Black Sand Deposits
Other Names: n/a
Location: Rosetta Beach, East Rosetta, Egypt
Subordinate to: Nuclear Material Authority (NMA)
Size: Approx. 70,000m x 800m and 9m deep
Primary Function: Uranium Production
Description: These black sand deposits along the Mediterranean coast contains monazite, zircon, and rutile. The NMA estimates that the monazite deposits contain 3000 tons of monazite, which contains .48% uranium and 6.04% thorium. 

Name: El Atshan Deposit
Other Names: n/a
Location: Central Eastern Desert, 60km southwest of El Qussier City, Egypt
Subordinate To: Nuclear Material Authority (NMA)
Size: n/a
Primary Function: Uranium mining
Description: This deposit is the first major occurrence of uranium ore materials discovered in the central eastern desert. Two tons of uranium ore averaging 0.077% from this deposit was extracted and analyzed at the Inchas Pilot Plant. 

Name: El Missikat and El Erediya Deposits
Other Names: n/a
Location: East desert and Sinai region, Egypt
Subordinate To: Nuclear Material Authority (NMA)
Size: n/a
Primary Function: Uranium mining
Description: These deposits are characterized as uranium bearing veins in granite. Starting in 1991, the authorities drilled approximately 4000m of tunnels to explore both areas. 

Name: Inchas Pilot Plant
Other Names: n/a
Location: Nuclear Research Center (NRC), Inshas, Egypt
Subordinate To: Nuclear Materials Authority (NMA)
Size: n/a
Primary Function: Uranium Milling
Description: There is little information in open sources about this uranium analysis and treatment plant. It has been used as a part of the Nuclear Material Authorities (NMA) efforts from 1990-1996 to explore uranium deposits and analyze the composition of uranium coming from those deposits.

Name: Gabal Gattar Mine
Other Names: n/a
Location: Eastern desert
Subordinate To: Nuclear Material Authority (NMA)
Size: n/a
Primary Function: Uranium mining
Description: Exploratory mining is underway. Vertical and horizontal workings have been pursued with the objective of "following a uranium bearing shear zone." A vertical shaft has been developed to provide access to horizontal tunnels.

Name: Gabal Kadabora Deposit
Other Names: n/a
Location: Central eastern desert
Subordinate To: Nuclear Material Authority (NMA)
Size: 320km2
Primary Function: Uranium mining
Description: This new discovery was reported to be in semi-detailed and detailed exploration stages in 1997. Veins of uranium ore are contained in a “younger granite mass” within a 320km2 area.   In 1999, the Egyptian authorities did not report this deposit to the OECD as part of that organizations international survey of uranium resources.

Name: Um Ara Deposit
Other Names: n/a
Location: Sinai region, Egypt
Subordinate To: Nuclear Material Authority (NMA)
Size: n/a
Primary Function: Uranium mining
Description: This deposits are present as secondary fracture fillings within an area described as closely spaced joints and fractures in a highly tectonized microline granite and shear zone.

Name: Western Sinai Deposit
Other Names: n/a
Location: Western Sinai region, Egypt
Subordinate To: Nuclear Material Authority (NMA)
Size: Approximately 10-15km
Primary Function: Uranium mining
Description: This deposit is a uraniferous siltstone and shale with a thickness ranging from .5 meters to 3.5 meters. The extent of the uranium occurrences in this deposit is about 10 to 15km. Its uranium content ranges between 200 to 500ppm. The deposit also contains secondary uranium minerals including phosphates, sulphates, vanadates, arsenates, and carbonates.

Name: Semi-Pilot Uranium Extraction Plant
Other Names: n/a
Location: Egypt
Subordinate To: Nuclear Material Authority (NMA)
Size: Pilot scale facility designed for 15 cubic meters/day processing
Primary Function: Uranium production
Description: This semi-pilot plant extracts uranium from phosphoric acid. Its planned construction completion date was 1998. Its design capacity was for the process of 15 cubic meters per day of acid, containing about 65ppm uranium.  

The uranium extraction process is multi-staged. The first stage is to produce phosphoric acid from EL-Sebaiya West Phosphate Rock using the dehydrate method. The plant in use produces approximately 40-350t/day of concentrated acid at about 52.7% P205. The second stage may use the precipitation process. Other processes, including the hemihydrate and solvent extraction process, have been used, however, early experiments ruled them out for various reasons. In 1995, the Nuclear Material Authority (NMA) investigated recovery methods to be applied to phosphoric acid produced by Abu-Zaabal Phosphoric Acid Plant (Abu-Zaabal Fertilizers and Chemicals Co., Egypt).

	Updated May 2003

Key Sources:
Dabbour, G.A., Proceedings of the second Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Part II: A and B," 5-9 November 1994, pp. 229-231, pp. 191-204; El-Ghany, Mahdy, et al., "Pilot Plant Studies on the Treatment of El Atshan Uranium Ores, Eastern Desert Egypt," Proceedings of the second Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Part II: A and B, 5-9 November 1994, pp. 229-231; El-Ghany, Mahdy, et al., "Pilot Plant Studies on the Treatment of El Atshan Uranium Ores, Eastern Desert Egypt," Proceedings of the second Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Part II: A and B, 5-9 November 1994, pp. 229-231; OECD/IAEA, "Egypt," Uranium 1999: Resources, Production and Demand, 1999, p. 143-144; OECD/IAEA, "Egypt," Uranium 1997: Resources, Production and Demand, 1997, p. 166-167; Fouad, Mahdy, Zatout, et al., "Development of Phosphoric Acid Industry Through The Manufacture of Single Stage Hemidrate Process," Proceedings of the Arabic Conference on Chemical Applications, 1 November 1997; Application of a Precipitation Method For Uranium Recovery From Abu-Zaabal Phosphoric Acid Plant, Egypt, N.M.T., El-Hazek and E.M. Hussien, Proceedings of the Arabic Conference on Chemical Applications, 1 November 1997.