Global InformationSukari mine information
| Location | |
|---|---|
  Sukari mine | |
| Red Sea Governorate | |
| Country | Egypt |
| Coordinates | 24°57′25″N 34°42′36″E / 24.95694°N 34.71000°E |
| Production | |
| Products | Gold |
| Production | 420,000 oz/y |
| History | |
| Opened | 2009 |
| Owner | |
| Company | Centamin |
The Sukari mine or Alsukari mine (Arabic: السكري Al-Sukkari, Egyptian pronunciation: El-Sokkari) is a gold mine located in the Nubian Desert/Eastern Desert near the Red Sea in Egypt, in the south-east of the country in the Red Sea Governorate,[1] 30 km south of Marsa Alam. It is exploited jointly by the Egyptian Ministry of Mineral Resources and Centamin. It is Egypt's first modern gold mine,[2] an industry considered to have scope for expansion in the country. Egypt was known in the ancient world as being a source of gold, and one of the earliest available maps shows a gold mine at this location.[3]
It is a combination of an open-pit mine and an underground mine, with estimated reserves of 15.4 million ounces of gold.[1] The site is supplied by a 30 km long pipeline bringing water from the Red Sea.
- ^ a b "Sukari Gold Mine". centamin.com. 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ Els, Frik (30 October 2012). "Investors flee Centamin after Egyptian court annuls gold concession". mining.com.
- ^ A special report on Egypt The Economist