This book addresses the strategic georesources in Egypt in terms of their geologic settings, exploitation, environmental impacts and sustainable development. These resources developed in a wide variety of tectonic settings, ranging from compressional, transpressional, transtensional, wrenching to extensional. Some of them are related to specific depositional environments. A particular attention is given to the added values and economic importance of these resources. The book is aimed at young geoscientists, established researchers, and other professionals interested in geoscientists, especially those active in economic geology and related multidisciplines. It contains up-to-date basic materials, recent basic references and thematic maps, as well as valuable data that are rapidly accumulated in the last few decades about georesources in Egypt. Book chapters are authored by influential scholars and well-known scientists working in both academia and research institutions. Some chapters explore precious metals, placer mineral deposits and phosphate deposits. Others demonstrate building and construction raw materials, along with ceramic and porcelain raw materials. Fossil fuels (Oil, natural gas and coal) as a non-renewable source of energy in Egypt are also presented. Characteristics and industrial applications of white sand in Sinai Peninsula, and black sand deposits as a substantial reserve for heavy-minerals in Egypt are given more attention. Besides, Rare Earth Elements, niobium-tantalum mineralization and beryllium mineralization are the subject matter of details in a specific chapters. Strategic metals and ore deposits hosted in mafic-ultamafic lithologies and granitic pegmatites are examined. Also, Phanerozoic-related ore deposits and water resources are highlighted. The last chapters provide a state-of-art on the application of GIS, remote sensing and geophysical methods in exploring strategic georesources in Egypt.

Zakaria Hamimi is Tectonics and Structural Geologist, currently at Benha University in Egypt, and has worked previously at Sana’a University, Yemen (1995-1998), and King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia (2003-2013). He obtained a B.Sc. (distinction with Honors) in 1984 at Assiut University, a M.Sc. in 1988 at Zagazig University, and a Ph.D. in 1992 in structural geology and tectonics at Cairo University. His research focusses on the tectonic evolution of the Arabian-Nubian Shield via structural/microstructural, paleostress, and strain studies, aligned with geological mapping, geomorphology, and remote sensing methodologies. His research output exceeds 80 research publications in national and international journals. Zakaria Hamimi is President and Founding Member of the Arabian Geosciences Union, since 2012. He has been awarded the medal of the Egyptian Geological Society of Egypt in 2015 and the medal of the Arab Mining and Petroleum Association in 2016.

François Roure was trained at the ENS in St-Cloud in France. He got his Ph.D. at Paris VI University in 1979 and his “thèse d’état” in 1984 at the same university, dealing with the geodynamic evolution of the North American Cordillera in northern California and Oregon during the Mesozoic. After 4 years spent with CNRS (1980–1984), he joined the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) in 1984 and was still Senior Geosciences Advisor at IFP Energies nouvelles, the current name of Former IFP, from 2000 to 2016, Extraordinary Professor at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 2012 to 2016, and Member of the CNE2 (French assessment board for research and the studies into the management of radioactive waste and materials) from 2010 to 2016. Until 1995, his main research topic was the crustal architecture of the Alps and Pyrenees (Ecors program).

Prof. Dr. Jesús Martínez-Frías, Ph.D. in geological sciences (1986), is Senior Research Scientist at Institute of Geosciences (CSIC-UCM) and Honorific Professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He is Founder and President of the Spanish Planetology and Astrobiology Network (REDESPA), Geological Society of Spain Commission on Planetary Geology, and Co-Founder and President of the International Association for Geoethics (IAGETH). He is Science Team Member of the NASA Mars Mission (rovers Curiosity and Perseverance). He is Former Member of the IAU Commission on Astrobiology, Science Officer, EGU. He is Council Member, EANA and ArabGU. He is Author/Editor of 12 books (e.g., mineral resources of Spain) and more than 360 publications, around 170 in SCI/WoS journals. His articles made the cover of Nature Geosciences, Science, Geology, and other high impact journals.

Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe is Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Computing at Missouri University of Science and Technology, the USA, where she has taught courses on the evolution of the earth, stratigraphy and sedimentation, systematic paleontology, micropaleontology, palynology, and paleoclimatology. She uses her training in sedimentology and palynology to conduct collaborative research on Phanerozoic depositional sequences on five continents to unravel the history of the earth. She is Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Paleontological Society. She is Past President of AASP―The Palynological Society, previously Fulbright Specialist Roster Candidate, and Former Member of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Scientific Board (Global Change Group) of UNESCO/International Union of Geological Sciences. She serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of African Earth Sciences.

Hassan Khozyem is Associate Professor at Aswan University, Egypt. He got his Ph.D. degree from University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2013 and was appointed as Lecturer in the Geology Department of Aswan University. He is invited as Visitor Professor for Princeton University and Lausanne University. In 2015 he awarded the state prize of encouragement from the Egyptian government (Egyptian Science and Technology Academy) in geosciences, and in 2017, he got the first class concession which is provided by the Egyptian President. His research interests focus on global climatic and paleo-environmental changes associated with warming events, with high-resolution bio-, and chemostratigraphy. Currently, he is interested in the current global climatic changes and its impact on the environment using different geochemical proxies (stable isotope, mineralogy, and geochemistry). He is Member in several geo-societies as well as Reviewer in several geoscience journals.

Gehad Saleh is Professor of geology and Vice Chairman of Nuclear Materials Authority in Cairo, Egypt. He received B.Sc. (1987, with honor degree), M.Sc. (1993), and Ph.D. (1997) degrees from El Mansoura University (Egypt) and obtained a postdoctoral fellowship (2005) from the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Engineering at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. He was Affiliated Professor in the Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, El Mansoura University, and Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Port Said University (Egypt). His area of interest deals with radioactive minerals in igneous and metamorphic rocks, exploration geology, and mineral exploration, and he supervises several projects in the same domain. He has published several papers and projects on various topics in ore geology, uranium geology, spectrometric prospecting, radioactivity, and exploration geology. He is Editorial Board Member of the Geomaterials (GM), International Journal of Material Science (IJMSCI).