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Central Arabian Gold and Base Metal Region - Mahd Ad Dhahab, Jabal Sayid, Al Amar, Bulghah, Al Sukhaybarat, Hamdah, Al Hajar, Jadmah, Sherrs, Wadi Bidah, Shaab Al Taare, Rabathan, Ad Duwayhi, As Suq, Mansourah, Bir Tawilah, Ar Rjum, Al Masane, Kutam
Saudi Arabia
Main commodities: Au Zn Cu




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2014.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Mahd Ad'Dahab

Al Amar

Bulghah

Sukhaybarat

Hamdah

Al Hajar

Shaab Al Taare

Ad Duwayhi

As Suq

Ar Rjum

Al Masane

    Selected References
Agar, R.A.,  1992 - The tectono-metallogenic evolution of the Arabian Shield: in    Precambrian Research   v.58, pp. 169-194.
Al Sifri, H.,  2009 - Economic evaluation of Bulghah Mine Project gold deposit in Saudi Arabia: in    https://hal-mines-paristech.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00595824    84p.
Bookstrom, A.A., Bosch, P.S., Jannadi, E.H. and El Komi, M.B.,  1994 - Hamdah Gold Deposit: in    Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,   Technical Report, 5p.
Conway, C.M.,  1985 - Geology and regional setting of the Al Masane ancient mine area, Southeastern Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: in    Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,   Open file report 85-240, 101p.
Greenwood, W.R., Stoeser, D.B., Fleck, R.J. and Stacey, J.S.,  1983 - Late Proterozoic island-arc complexes and tectonic belts in the southern part of the Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: in    Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,   Open File Report 83-296, 47p.
Harbi, H.M., Surour, A.A. and Davidson, G.J.,  2014 - Genesis of Neoproterozoic Au-bearing volcanogenic sulfides and quartz veins in the Ar Rjum goldfield, Saudi Arabia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.58, pp. 110-125.
Hariri, M.M. and Makkawi, M.H.,  2004 - Gold mineralization distributions within rock units at the Hajr gold mine, southwest Saudi Arabia: in    The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering,   v.29, pp. 111-121
Johnson, P.R.,  2006 - Explanatory notes to the map of Proterozoic Geology of western Saudi Arabia: in    Saudi Geological Survey,   Technical Report SGS-TR-2006-04 76p.
Johnson, P.R.,  2014 - An Expanding Arabian-Nubian Shield Geochronologic and Isotopic Dataset: Defining Limits and Confirming the Tectonic Setting of a Neoproterozoic Accretionary Orogen: in    The Open Geology Journal,   v.8, pp. 3-33.
Johnson, P.R., Andresen, A., Collins, A.S., Fowler, A.R., Fritz, H., Ghebreab, W., Kusky, T. and Stern, R.J.,  2011 - Late Cryogenian-Ediacaran history of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: A review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East African Orogen: in    J. of African Earth Sciences,   v.61, pp. 167-232.
Madani, A.A.,  2011 - Knowledge-driven GIS modeling technique for gold exploration, Bulghah gold mine area, Saudi Arabia: in    The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences,   v.14, pp. 91-97.
Stoeser, D.B., Whitehouse M.J. and Stacey, J.S.,  2001 - The Khida Terrane - Geology of Paleoproterozoic Rocks in the Muhayil Area, Eastern Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia: in    Gondwana Research   v.4, pp. 192-194.
Stoeser,D.B. and Frost, C.D.,  2006 - Nd, Pb, Sr, and O isotopic characterization of Saudi Arabian Shield terranes: in    Chemical Geology,   v.226, pp. 163-188.
Surour A.A., Bakhsh, R.A. and El-Nisr, S.A.,  2014 - Ore microscopic characterization of mineralized rocks at the Bir Tawilah gold prospect, Saudi Arabia: in    Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure,   v.2, pp. 41-55.
Surour A.A., Harbi, H.M. and Ahmed, A.H.,  2014 - The Bir Tawilah deposit, central western Saudi Arabia: Supergene enrichment of a Pan-African epithermal gold mineralization: in    J. of African Earth Sciences   v.89, pp. 149-163.
Surour, A.A. and Bakhsh, R.,  2013 - Microfabrics and microchemistry of sulfide ores from the 640 FW-Elevel at the Al Amar gold mine, Saudi Arabia: in    Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure,   v.1, pp. 96-110.
Volesky, J.C., Leybourne, M.I., Stern, R.J., Peter, J.M., Layton-Matthews, D., Rice, S. and Johnson, P.R.,  2017 - Metavolcanic host rocks, mineralization, and gossans of the Shaib al Tair and Rabathan volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits of the Wadi Bidah Mineral District, Saudi Arabia: in    International Geology Review   v.59, pp. 1975-2002.


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