- Mons
Porphyrites (today
Jabal Abu Dukhkhan) is the
mountainous site of a
group of
ancient quarries in the Red Sea
Hills of the
Eastern Desert in Egypt...
- south-central
British Columbia. To the
Romans it was
known as
Lapis porphyrites.
Pliny the Elder's
Natural History (36, 11)
affirmed that the "Imperial...
- (low grade) ore
deposit of copper,
consisting of
porphyry rocks Mons
Porphyrites, the only
porphyry quarry worked in the
ancient world for the emperor's...
-
total about 60
million tons.
There are
numerous deposits of granites,
porphyrites, and
marbles which, when polished,
acquire a
smooth surface of beautiful...
- the Wheel? And How Did They Do It?". Wired. Pea****, D. P. S. "Mons
Porphyrites". In
Kathryn A. Bard;
Steven Blake Shubert (eds.).
Encyclopedia of the...
- spur in 1941. Ore
bodies are
represented by
huskies (diorite, diabase-
porphyrites). Ore-containing minerals: formality, molybdenite, wolframite. This ridge...
- not of feldspar. They are thus
distinguished from the
porphyries and
porphyrites in
which the
feldspar has
crystallized in two generations. They are essentially...
-
point where the
limestone range of the
Arabian hills joins the Mons
Porphyrites, and at the
southern entrance of the Gulf of Suez (the
Heroopolite Gulf)...
-
apparent to the
kingdoms of Spain. And
Johannes Hevelius called it "Mons
Porphyrites"
after the
mountains near Olbia, Egypt. A
particular region of very low...
- as pelite, sandstone, paragneiss, granitoids, biotite-quartz schists,
porphyrites and tonalite. Beniest, Anouk; Oldenhage, J. H.; Sc****art, W. P. (November...
