الفهرس 
Introduction
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Abstract
Extensive black sand placer deposist are discontinuously distributed along the northern coastal plain of the Nile Delta and Sinai Peninsula, i. e. in the coastal stretch between Abu Qir to the west and Rafah to the east. These deposits contain strategic and economic heavy minerals, which are needed either for nuclear industry or other metallurgical and engineering industries. The Egyptian black sand deposits comprise huge reserves of the six common economic heavy minerals that include ilmenite, magnetite, garnet, zircon, rutile and monazite, cassiterite and gold in addition to others are also found but in relatively minor amounts.