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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,〔 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, 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.〔(A special report on Egypt ) ''The Economist''〕 It is a combination of an open-pit mine and an underground mine, with estimated reserves of 15.4 million oz of gold. The site is supplied by a 30 km long pipeline bringing water from the Red Sea. == History == The $265-million project began gold production began in 2009 with 850 workers. The initial yield was 2 g/t, with future yields expected to rise to between 5 g/t and 10 g/t. In October 2012 owner Centamin's license for the Sukarim mine was annulled by an Egyptian court,〔 in December operations were suspended over a payment dispute and exports were halted. Within a week significant parts of the disupte with the Egyptian bureaucracy were resolved and exports were resumed. By 2014 production had risen to 250,000 oz in the first nine months, with a target figure for the entire year of 420,000 oz. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sukari mine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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