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Alluvial gold placer in main sedimentation area, High Dam Lake, Egypt:
The first record
Mahmoud M. Hassaan, Mohamed El Dardir1 and Yehia Z. Nassar2
1Fac. Sciences, ElAzhar Univ. Cairo, National Inst. 2Oceanography and
Fisheries, Aswan, Geological Surv., Cairo, Egypt.

The analysis of 92 strongly magnetic heavy minerals of the fine sediments in the High Dam Lake using the atomic absorption spectrometry for gold and silver indicates presence of promising gold-silver alluvial placer reaching up to 347g/t and 893 g/t respectively.