Egypt Natural Resources List. Crude oil is found primarily in the gulf. Other natural gas fields are located in the western desert the delta the mediterranean shelf and the gulf of suez and by the early 21st century natural gas production had begun to rival that of oil both as a source for domestic consumption and as a commodity for export.
This chapter presents an overview of the land water and human resources in egypt. This usually gave surpluses of grain cotton and papyrus to utilize in trade. Western desert eastern desert sinai peninsula nile valley and nile delta.
Copper was the main metal used in ancient egypt.
The egyptians mined from various areas in egypt. These natural resources allowed the ancient egyptians to build monuments sculpt statues make tools and fashion jewelry. Egypt land is geographically divided into five sections. White limestone came from quarries near memphis quartzite from gebel el ahmar and sandstone from gebel es silsila.
