El Maghara Coal Mine
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El Maghara Coal Mine is a retired coal mine in El Hassana, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
| Mine Name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
|---|---|---|
| El Maghara Coal Mine | El Hassana, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt | 30.706731, 33.3816866 (exact) |
The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:
Project Details
Table 2: Project status
| Status | Status Detail | Opening Year | Closing Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retired[1] | – | 1967[1] | 2021[1] |
Table 3: Operation details
| Capacity (Mtpa) | Production (Mtpa) | Year of Production | Mine Type | Mining Method | Mine Size (km2) | Mine Depth (m) | Workforce Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 0.012 | – | Underground | – | – | 494* | 552* |
Table 4: Coal resources and destination
| Total Reserves (Mt) | Year of Total Reserves Recorded | Total Resources (Mt) | Coalfield | Coal Type | Coal Grade | Primary Consumer/ Destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34[1] | – | – | – | Bituminous | – | – |
Table 5: Ownership and parent company
| Owner | Parent Company | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|
| Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority | Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority [100%] | Egypt |
Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September supplement.
Background
El Maghara mine is an underground coal mine in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.[2]
As of 2022, is the only operating mine in Egypt.[3] According to a 2002 study, "The El-Maghara coal mine is the only producing coal mine in Egypt. It is located in the middle of the Sinai desert about 250 km north-east of Cairo, where a coal-fired power plant is intended to be built."[4]
In 2022, the government announced it planned to end coal in Egypt prior to Cairo’s hosting of the COP27. Yet it remains mainly contingent on the availability of alternative sources of energy for coal-based industries, as well as on firm decisions to close huge coal-based factories.[3]
- Owner: Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority (EMRA)[5]
- Parent company: Egyptian government[5]
- Location: El Hassana, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt[4]
- GPS coordinates:30.706731, 33.3816866[4]
- Mine status:Operating[6]
- Start year: 1967 [7]
- Mineable reserves: 34 million tons[3]
- Coal type: bituminous[5]
- Mine size:
- Mine type: Underground[6]
- Production: .0125 million ton per annum[6]
- Additional proposed production: expected to reach 0.6 million tons per annum[7]
- Equipment:
- Number of employees:
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20240121010209/https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/09/egyptian-coal-factory-shuts-down-lead-cop27. Archived from the original on 21 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ Angela Boskovitch Photo Essay: Fighting for Creative Cinema Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 11, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ayah Aman,Egyptian coal factory shuts down in lead-up to COP27, AI Monitor, September 21, 2022
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedab - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Government approves operation of El Maghara coal mine: officia Cairo Post May 14, 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 N.A.A.Edressa, R.Abdel-Fatah Fuel analyses and rank determination of the Egyptian Maghara main coal seam, north central Sinai, Egypt Egyptian Journal of Petroleum, December 2018
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Nawal Sayed Sisi calls on all Egyptians to take part in developing Sinai Egypt Today, Feb 27 2018
