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- Locality
- سنكات
- Region
- البحر الأحمر
- Country
- السودان
- Population
- 30,856
- Timezone
- Africa/Khartoum
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Jubayt or Gebeit () is a small town in eastern Sudan.
==History== Gold mining of quartz veins in the area dates from the New Kingdom of Egypt Period. A large New Kingdom settlement is located northeast of the main Gebeit mine in Wadi Gebeir-Shariq, which includes 15 buildings, and numerous oval grinding mills and anvil stones. Mining was resumed under the British in 1903, after an evaluation by the Royal Geographical Society in 1896. Total gold production when operations ceased in 1956 was about 4,200 kg from 63.5 grams per ton (g/t) ore. Then, the British Minex Mineral (Sudan) operated for a time until 1990. Some archaic extraction of ore was still underway in the 2000s by miners living in the makeshift village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jubayt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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