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, 25km from Marsa Alam, on the Red Sea, in Egypt. The Sukari mine is Egypt's first modern gold mine.
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.[1]
Today. Sukari is a combination of an open-pit mine mine and an underground mine.[2] The site is supplied by a 30km-long pipeline bringing water from the Red Sea.
History
The $265-million project began gold production in 2009 with 850 workers.
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