El Maghara mine Wikipedia. 201913ensp·enspThe El Maghara mine is an underground coal mine in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. Opened in 1964, the mine produces lowrank bituminous coal. Loed about 250 km northeast of Cairo, it is the only coal mine in Egypt. Operations were approved to resume in 2014, with reserves estimated at 21 million tons of coal. Radioactivities related to coal mining. (1 ...