Greenstone-hosted lode-gold mineralization at Dungash mine, Eastern Desert, Egypt

The auriferous quartz±carbonate veins at Dungash mine, central Eastern Desert of Egypt, are confined to ∼E-trending dilation zones within variably foliated/sheared metavolcanic/volcaniclastic rocks ...

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