Israeli geologists have found important deposits of tungsten in the center of the southern Sinai, it was announced Thursday night by Prof. Yaakov Ben-Tor of the Hebrew University in a lecture at the Technion in Haifa. The 62-year-old German-born chairman of the University’s Geology Department said his team had also found an area of some 200 square kilometers of diorite rocks showing “indications of copper content,” and signs of copper north of Sharm el-Sheikh “which warrant further surveying.” In the southeastern Sinai, Ben-Tor reported, his group found “a whole mountain” of feldspar, an important mineral used in producing ceramics and false teeth.
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