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Arabian-Nubian Shield

Rank#9 of 13
Score / MSP / IC7 / 8.2 / 2.3
IC basisFraser 2024: Egypt not rated in current survey. Sudan not rated. Saudi Arabia IAI=52.3 (non-Africa portion). Editorial estimate 2.3/10 for African ANS jurisdictions.
CommodityAu-VMS · signal MODERATE
Freshnesseditorial_floor Egypt/Sudan not rated; non-Africa Saudi portion excluded from African IC. · all provinces
Country pagesEgypt · Eritrea · Sudan · Somalia

Opportunity (record)

Afrimintel SCOPE NOTE: African ANS only (Egypt · Sudan · Ethiopia · Eritrea). Arabian Peninsula excluded. Within African scope: Sukari 30 Moz+ Au operating in Egypt — largest African Au mine outside SA. Bisha VMS (Eritrea) operating. 400+ known Au occurrences across Ethiopia-Sudan-Eritrea with minimal modern exploration since the 1980s. Sudan conflict renders ~70% of the province commercially inaccessible short-term. Ethiopia access improving post-2022 ceasefire but governance risk remains. Egypt Eastern Desert is the commercially viable window — highest IC, existing operator precedent.

Assets in province (6, record-stated)

AssetStageOperator
Asmara VMS (Eritrea)Dev
Bisha VMS (Eritrea)Op
Hamama Au-Cu-Zn (Egypt)Dev
Hassai Au (Sudan)C&M
SukariOpAngloGold Ashanti (50% post Centamin Nov 2024)
Sukari Au (Egypt)OpSukari Gold Mining Co (SGM): AGA 50% (via Centamin) / EMRA 5

Province attribution is stated on every asset record (the p field) — record-stated classification, no text inference. Whether record-stated platform classifications carry the formal Sourced label is an open editorial ruling; this page does not claim it. Contrast the country pages, where attribution requires the record to say so.