Mineral Specimens - page 9
Morocco

ML16AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, twinned according to the spinel law, with curious hooked ends and with minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 0.8 × 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.31” × 0.12” × 0.08”

MM16AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, distinctly twinned according to the spinel law and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 0.9 × 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.35” × 0.16” × 0.12”

MR89AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, twinned according to the spinel law, with curious hooked ends and with minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1 × 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.39” × 0.24” × 0.12”

MG34AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, twinned according to the spinel law, and minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.24” × 0.16”

MK28AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, twinned according to the spinel law, with curious hooked ends and with minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.16” × 0.16”

MV51AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location still to be determined, this specimen of very brilliant crystallized Gold displays branched forms, skeletal shapes and it has minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.28” × 0.16”

MH89AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.9 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.35” × 0.12”

MQ87AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron and with minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.35” × 0.31”

MJ87AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, twinned according to the spinel law, with curious hooked ends and with minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.47” × 0.12” × 0.08”

MF30AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, twinned according to the spinel law and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.51” × 0.20” × 0.20”

MC56AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, distinctly twinned according to the spinel law and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.51” × 0.31” × 0.28”

ME30AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location still to be determined, this specimen of very brilliant crystallized Gold displays branched forms, skeletal shapes and it has minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.43” × 0.12”

MP27AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, distinctly twinned according to the spinel law and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.08” × 0.08”

MF89AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, distinctly twinned according to the spinel law and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.71” × 0.12” × 0.04”

MT30AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location still to be determined, this specimen of very brilliant crystallized Gold displays branched forms, skeletal shapes and it has minor Quartz.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.20” × 0.08”

MD11AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, distinctly twinned according to the spinel law and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.83” × 0.12” × 0.08”

MA26AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, distinctly twinned according to the spinel law and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.20” × 0.20”

MB16AM4: From a very recent find in the area of Western Sahara in Morocco, with the specific location yet to be determined, this specimen of Gold, very well crystallized and with brilliant luster, displays a sharply defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron in highly stylized parallel growths, distinctly twinned according to the spinel law and with curious hooked ends.
We will see what the future of the locality holds for these high quality absolute novelties.
This material has been carefully analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.12” × 0.12”

EH14AK1: New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Individualized spheroidal aggregates with parallel crystal growths of well defined translucent and bright faces, a uniform light green color and on matrix. They have a morphology not previously known at Imilchil.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.8 × 2 cm = 1.61” × 1.50” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

EC9AK1: New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Individualized spheroidal aggregates with parallel crystal growths of well defined translucent and bright faces, a uniform light green color and on matrix. They have a morphology not previously known at Imilchil.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2019 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 148, page 35
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.69” × 1.61” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.31” × 0.20”

EM9Y1: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. A globular aggregate of prismatic crystals with very well defined faces and edges, color zoned with a whitish green color on the outsides and a more intense green color in the middle.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2013)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.3 × 3.3 cm = 1.89” × 1.69” × 1.30”

MB16AL4: Spheroidal growth, on matrix, of Prehnite crystals with visible crystals, translucent, pale green, and partially encrusted with small Epidote crystals.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08/2019)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.3 × 4.5 cm = 2.13” × 2.09” × 1.77”

EJ12AK1: New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Individualized spheroidal aggregates with parallel crystal growths of well defined translucent and bright faces, a uniform light green color and on matrix. They have a morphology not previously known at Imilchil.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.2 × 2 cm = 2.56” × 2.05” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

MQ26AK7: New in Munich 2019: Spheroidal growths of uniformly pale green Prehnite on ophite matrix coated with small Epidote crystals and flattened crystals of a white feldspar, possibly Albite.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Munich 2019, in the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 63 of number 1/2020 as well as in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 52 of the 2020/01 edition.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08/2019)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.6 × 4.7 cm = 3.23” × 2.60” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 4 cm = 1.81” × 1.57”

MQ89AL3: Spheroidal growths of good sized Prehnite crystals with their main faces perfectly distinguishable, of a uniform dark green color, on an ophitic matrix covered with small crystals of dark colored Ferro-actinolite and lighter colored Epidote.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08/2019)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 9 × 5.2 cm = 4.65” × 3.54” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 3.8 cm = 1.93” × 1.50”

MH66AF3: Flattened polycrystalline growths of very sharp Hematite crystals. They are black and very bright and are on a matrix of fan-like aggregates of Prehnite crystals. Unusual.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 8.7 × 6.9 cm = 3.66” × 3.43” × 2.72”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2 cm = 1.57” × 0.79”

MH9AL3: Group of black rhombododecahedral Andradite crystals, very sharp, on a Feldspar matrix, with small octahedral Magnetite crystals.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2010)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.18” × 1.06” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”

ED96AD7: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux- Mines 2016. Characteristically platy Ilmenite crystals with irregular contour and completely pseudomorphed by Rutile, coated by very sharp Titanite crystals that are bright, with very well defined faces and edges, and with a very apparent pleochroism that shows a yellow color under led light but is greenish with natural or neon light.
The process of replacement of Ilmenite by Rutile seems very similar to that of other localities with similar geological conditions (by example the Zambian Rutile) and it is due to hydrothermal processes at the site. These samples, very different from the Titanite previously known at Imilchil, have required a hurried analytical process that we’ll extend and complete. We’ll send to the buyer the information and documentation previously obtained about the process and also a copy of the analyses done on the different species present in these samples.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm = 1.69” × 1.50” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

EK48AE1: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2016. Platy Ilmenite crystals with irregular contours and completely pseudomorphed by Rutile, coated by very sharp Titanite crystals that are bright, with very well defined faces and edges, and with a very apparent pleochroism that shows a yellow color under led light but is greenish with daylight or neon light. Partially coated by Microcline crystals.
The process of replacement of Ilmenite by Rutile seems very similar to that of other localities with similar geological conditions (by example the Zambian Rutile) and it is due to hydrothermal processes at the site. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of the analyses done on the different species present in the samples.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.8 × 4.7 cm = 2.05” × 1.89” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

EF90AG9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux- Mines 2016. Platy Ilmenite crystals with irregular pseudo-hexagonal contour and completely pseudomorphed by Rutile, coated by very sharp Titanite crystals that are bright, with very well defined faces and edges and coated in the back by Microcline crystals. The Titanite crystals have a very apparent pleochroism that shows a yellow color under led light but is greenish with natural or neon light. The process of replacement of Ilmenite by Rutile seems very similar to that of other localities with similar geological conditions (by example the Zambian Rutile) and it is due to hydrothermal processes at the site. These samples, very different from the Titanite previously known at Imilchil, have required an accurate analytical process. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of the analyses done on the different species present in these samples.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.7 × 1.3 cm = 2.68” × 2.24” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

EA70AE1: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2016. Platy Ilmenite crystals with irregular contours and completely pseudomorphed by Rutile, coated by very sharp Titanite crystals that are bright, with very well defined faces and edges, and with a very apparent pleochroism that shows a yellow color under led light but is greenish with daylight or neon light. Partially coated by Microcline crystals.
The process of replacement of Ilmenite by Rutile seems very similar to that of other localities with similar geological conditions (by example the Zambian Rutile) and it is due to hydrothermal processes at the site. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of the analyses done on the different species present in the samples.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.8 × 1.8 cm = 3.35” × 3.07” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

EC99AE1: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2016. Platy Ilmenite crystals with irregular contours and completely pseudomorphed by Rutile, coated by very sharp Titanite crystals that are bright, with very well defined faces and edges, and with a very apparent pleochroism that shows a yellow color under led light but is greenish with daylight or neon light. Partially coated by Microcline crystals.
The process of replacement of Ilmenite by Rutile seems very similar to that of other localities with similar geological conditions (by example the Zambian Rutile) and it is due to hydrothermal processes at the site. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of the analyses done on the different species present in the samples.
Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 5.2 × 1.4 cm = 3.43” × 2.05” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.28” × 0.20”

TP46AJ0: Very acute, prismatic Arfvedsonite crystals that are very bright, have fine vertical striations, a deep black color and are on a Feldspar matrix. The sample has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Ewargizen, Imilchil, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2012)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.6 × 5.1 cm = 3.35” × 2.20” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.08”

EH26AM3: Group of Calcite crystals with a very sharp pseudohexagonal outline, some of them doubly terminated, completely covered by a second generation of small scalenohedral crystals. On matrix, with centered growths of acicular white Prehnite crystals.
Due to its genetic complexity the specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 6.4 × 7.1 cm = 3.46” × 2.52” × 2.80”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 2.4 cm = 2.44” × 0.94”

MZ14AL5: Two very aerial Calcite crystals, with a sharp pseudohexagonal habit, completely covered by a second generation of small scalenohedral crystals, with small Quartz crystals. We have analyzed this type of specimen due to its genetic complexity and will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (08/2019)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.1 × 3.1 cm = 2.52” × 2.01” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 3.1 cm = 2.28” × 1.22”

EK11AK4: New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aerial and aesthetic growths of Calcite in small rhombohedral crystals that have completely replaced an earlier generation of Calcite crystals (analyzed). With small crystals of Prehnite and lamellar growths of Chlorite. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.56” × 1.73” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.85” × 0.55”

MY26AL5: Group of Calcite crystals with a very well defined pseudohexagonal shape, completely covered by a second generation of small scalenohedral crystals, with small Quartz and Epidote crystals. We have analyzed this type of specimen due to its genetic complexity and will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (08/2019)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.6 × 4.3 cm = 2.68” × 2.60” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.48” × 0.98”

EG9AK4: New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aerial and aesthetic growths of Calcite in small rhombohedral crystals that have completely replaced an earlier generation of Calcite crystals (analyzed). With small crystals of Prehnite and lamellar growths of Chlorite. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm = 2.80” × 1.69” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 7 × 1.5 cm = 2.76” × 0.59”

EJ11AK4: New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aerial and aesthetic growths of Calcite in small rhombohedral crystals that have completely replaced pre-existing crystals that Calcita has also given in Calcite analysis, so it can be assumed that it was a first generation of Calcite . With small crystals of Prehnite and lamellar growths of Chlorite. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 3.82” × 1.50” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 9.7 × 1.5 cm = 3.82” × 0.59”

ET14AK4: New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aerial and aesthetic growths of Calcite in small rhombohedral crystals that have completely replaced pre-existing crystals that were shown to have been Calcite too, assumed to be an earlier generation of Calcite. With small crystals of Prehnite and lamellar growths of Chlorite. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 3 × 2.4 cm = 4.21” × 1.18” × 0.94”

ET47AK4: New at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2019. Very aesthetic specimen with Calcite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with a pseudohexagonal contour, with a second generation of small scalenohedral crystals, with fan-shaped aggregate coatings of acicular epidote crystals. We have not been able to publicize these specimens until now due to their genetic complexity. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 10.8 × 5.4 cm = 4.65” × 4.25” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 11.8 × 3 cm = 4.65” × 1.18”

MR67AK9: Group of sharp pseudohexagonal Calcite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, completely covered by a second generation of small scalenohedral crystals, with small Quartz crystals, and localized groups of Epidote crystals. We have analyzed this type of specimen because of their genetic complexity and will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (08/2019)

Specimen size: 17.8 × 11.7 × 10.2 cm = 7.01” × 4.61” × 4.02”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.8 cm = 2.76” × 1.10”

MF13AK6: Fan-like growths of prismatic Epidote crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with good terminal faces, bright and very deep color. On matrix with small Quartz crystals. Previously labeled as "Imilchil", now the location is more accurate.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 53 of the 2020/01 edition.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (09/2019)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4 × 3.4 cm = 1.69” × 1.57” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.47”

MG26AK6: Groups of prismatic Epidote crystals with good terminal faces, in fan-shaped aggregates, lustrous and very deep color. Previously labeled as "Imilchil", now the location is more accurate.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (09/2019)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.6 × 2.3 cm = 2.87” × 1.81” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 0.67” × 0.43”

MG6AL5: Fan-like growths of short prismatic crystals of Epidote rich in terminal faces, shiny, and very deep in color, on matrix, with Quartz. Previously labeled as coming from "Imilchil", but we now know a more precise location.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (08/2019)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 7.9 × 3.4 cm = 3.23” × 3.11” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.47”

EY97AK5: Drusy fans of prismatic crystals with defined, translucent, faces and edges, with bright luster and a very intense, deep and uniform pistachio-green color. On matrix with small colorless, transparent and very bright crystals of Quartz. The specimen, from an area (Jebel Masker) little known until now, comes from the Christian Mondeilh collection (No. D / 2016), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Jebel Masker, Imilchil area, Tounfit, Khénifra Province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 6.1 × 3.4 cm = 3.58” × 2.40” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.43” × 0.20”

ER14AM3: Druse of Quartz crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, lustrous, and with a very vivid color, with inclusions of red Hematite and very well defined phantom growths. A classic for this mine but with a more vivid color than usual.
Aouli, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.7 × 3 cm = 2.56” × 1.85” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

EL96AM3: From a 2019 discovery at a greater depth than usual in the Coud'a area. With polycrystalline groups and parallel growths of Vanadinite crystals with a thick tabular habit, on matrix, many of them doubly terminated and with hopper growths. Very lustrous and with a very vivid and uniform magenta-red color, less intense on the back. High quality.
Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2019)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 3.7 × 6.7 cm = 2.68” × 1.46” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.59”

EB48AJ9: From a recent find, found deeper than usual at the Koudiat Mohamedine area. Parallel polycrystalline aggregates forming a feather-like growth of crystals with a tabular shape, extraordinarily bright with a very vivid and uniform magenta-red color and slightly mat on the back side.
Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2019)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.2 × 0.6 cm = 1.57” × 0.87” × 0.24”

EF73AJ9: From a discovery of the year 2019 made in more depth than usual at the Coud'a area. Parallel polycrystalline aggregates forming walls with esthetic twisting and feather-like growths of crystals with a tabular shape, a lot of them doubly terminated, some with hollow growths, extraordinarily bright with a very vivid and uniform magenta-red color and slightly mat on the back side.
Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2019)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.13” × 1.73” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 0.98” × 0.75”

EA91AJ9: From a recent find, found deeper than usual at the Koudiat Mohamedine area. Parallel polycrystalline aggregates forming a feather-like growth of crystals with a thick tabular shape, a lot of them doubly terminated, extraordinarily bright with a very vivid and uniform magenta-red color and slightly mat on the back.
Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2019)

Specimen size: 7 × 3 × 1 cm = 2.76” × 1.18” × 0.39”

ET46AL5: This specimen is from a recent discovery at a deeper depth than usual in the Coud'a area, with parallel polycrystalline aggregates that form a feathery growth of tabular habit crystals, extraordinarily bright and with a very lively and uniform red-magenta color. Slightly matte on the back.
Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2019)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.2 × 1.6 cm = 3.11” × 2.05” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 7.9 × 5.2 × 1.6 cm = 3.11” × 2.05” × 0.63”

MV37AL5: Parallel growths of thick tabular crystals that make up a single Vanadinite crystal with polycrystalline growths. The growths have marked pyramidal faces, shiny, and with a very vivid and uniform red-magenta color, slightly matte on the back. Different from other Vanadinites and with a huge single crystal for the species.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 53 of the 2020/01 edition.
Mohamedine, Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2019)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.7 × 2 cm = 3.31” × 2.24” × 0.79”

EC92AJ9: The sample is from a find made at the Coud’a area in the first months of 2019, found much deeper than usual. Short prismatic crystals on matrix, some of them doubly terminated, extraordinarily bright and with a very intense reddish-brownish color with orange shades.
Mohamedine, Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (01-02/2019)

Specimen size: 9 × 5 × 3 cm = 3.54” × 1.97” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

ED67AJ9: This magnificent sample comes from a find made at the Coud’a area in the first months of 2019, found much deeper than usual. Large crystals with a thick tabular shape, a lot of them doubly terminated, bright and with a very vivid reddish-brownish color with orange shades.
Mohamedine, Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (01-02/2019)

Specimen size: 12 × 8.6 × 6.7 cm = 4.72” × 3.39” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.6 cm = 0.63” × 0.63”

EP27AE1: A novelty at Ste. Marie 2012. Aggregate of tabular Vanadinite crystals with polycrystalline growths on the pinacoidal faces and very well defined pyramidal faces. They are bright, have a very vivid and uniform color and are implanted on a sandstone matrix partially coated by black Mottramite microcrystals. The Mottramite, a novelty for the Mibladen area, has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mohamedine, Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (05/2012)

Specimen size: 10 × 6.2 × 5 cm = 3.94” × 2.44” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

MG48AA9: Isolated Wulfenite crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant, with a shape and color (intense red) very different than usual for the locality.
Adeghoual (Aderhoual), Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 6.6 × 6.4 × 5.2 cm = 2.60” × 2.52” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

EK46AM0: Elongated Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from those known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tones, to acicular forms with yellowish orange color, also very intense. On matrix, with lamellar crystals of Barite. From a find in the area of the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.4 × 3 cm = 1.46” × 0.94” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

TH26AC9: Aggregate of doubly terminated crystals, bright, with very well defined faces and edges and with a very unusual color, between orange and cream, and with a dark colored stripe in the center of each crystal. The sample was collected 200 meters deep in the old abandoned shafts at the ACF mine. Due to very difficult access and collecting, future recovery of such pieces is not expected.
ACF Mine, 200 m.↓, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (05/2014)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 2 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

T26MCAB7: Thick tabular Vanadinite crystals that are bright and have a very intense and uniform color. They are on aggregates of white laminar Baryte crystals and are on matrix. The sample has been recovered from an old find in 1995 when only a few samples of good quality were recovered
ACF Mine, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08/1995)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.5 × 2.5 cm = 2.60” × 1.77” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

TE17AF3: Aggregate of doubly terminated crystals, bright, with very well defined faces and edges and with a very unusual color, between orange and cream, and with a dark colored stripe in the center of each crystal. The sample has been collected 200 meters deep in the old abandoned shafts at the ACF mine. Due to very difficult access and collecting, future recovery of such pieces is not expected.
ACF Mine, 200 m.↓, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (05/2014)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 4.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.99” × 1.77” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

EB27AM2: Tabular Vanadinite crystals on matrix, translucent, brilliant, and with the intense and vivid red color that characterizes many of the specimens found in 2017.
ACF Mine, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (14/05/2017)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 7 × 2.7 cm = 3.23” × 2.76” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.51”

GF36Q1: Very aerial group of doubly terminated crystals of good size, with parallel growths and deep color with orange-brown reflections.
Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1980)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.2 × 2.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.87” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

LX69AK2: Druse of thick tabular crystals with well defined pyramidal faces, some of them with parallel polycrystalline growths that form palisades with aesthetic twists. The extraordinarily lustrous crystals are a very bright and uniform red-magenta color, lighter and matte in the back. The specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 659), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2010)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.2 × 1.8 cm = 2.01” × 1.65” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

EC27AL9: Book-like aggregates of lamellar Baryte crystals on matrix, with Quartz crystals and partial coatings of small, very bright crystals of Pyrite and Marcasite. The back of the matrix shows missing crystal casts, probably an earlier generation of Baryte crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 9.9 × 6.4 cm = 5.71” × 3.90” × 2.52”

ET16AH9: Pair of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, one of them clearly dominant, doubly terminated and complete, transparent, bright, with a pale blue color and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Sphalerite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 4 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 1.57” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 0.79”

EG46AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Parallel growth of elongated crystals with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces. On a Pyrite matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.4 × 1.8 cm = 1.93” × 1.34” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1 cm = 1.30” × 0.39”

EB96AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Single crystals with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces. On matrix, with Quartz and Pyrite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 5.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.09” × 2.05” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.67”

EJ76AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Aggregate of crystals with a very unusual shape, tabular, very thick and with slight bulges on some of their faces. The crystals are complete, with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces. They are partially coated by deformed Pyrite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.24” × 1.77” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.4 cm = 1.57” × 1.34”

EB98AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Floater aggregate of parallel growths of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color deserves a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.3 × 1.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.69” × 0.67”

EA88AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Floater aggregate of parallel growths of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color deserves a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.5 × 1.1 cm = 2.64” × 1.38” × 0.43”

ED88AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Very aerial group of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright with an intense reddish-yellow color on a matrix of white crystallized Quartz with groups of very bright cubic Pyrite crystals, and partially coated by small white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and Pyrite crystals. The sample is very esthetic and very well balanced. The color deserves a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 3.5 × 4.9 cm = 2.87” × 1.38” × 1.93”

EF69AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Floater aggregate of parallel growths of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color needs a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue, locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 8 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 3.15” × 1.97” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.77”

EC99AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Floater aggregate of parallel growths of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color needs a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue, locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 7.4 × 3.6 cm = 3.19” × 2.91” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 1.26” × 1.02”

EB17AB7: Single crystals with a very unusual shape, tabular and with slight bulges on some of their faces. The crystals are complete, with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces. They are partially coated by deformed Pyrite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.8 × 4.2 cm = 3.43” × 2.68” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.65” × 0.91”

EJ89AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Floater aggregate of parallel growths of very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, transparent, bright and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. The color needs a separate comment because there is a mixture of reddish yellow, with orange in some areas but mainly concentrated on the edges, and blue, locally with greenish hues on the wide main pinacoid faces.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.7 × 4.1 cm = 3.62” × 2.64” × 1.61”

EQ14AM3: Floater aggregate of small Marcasite crystals with the twin law known as "sperkise", very sharp, and with extraordinary luster. This specimen clearly preserves cavities with the geometric shapes of vanished crystals, probably Baryte.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.9 × 3.8 cm = 3.86” × 3.11” × 1.50”

EB66AK9: Outstanding double arborescent growth of deformed and flattened copper crystals, three-dimensional and sharp on the octahedral terminations, in a crystalline Quartz matrix.
The specimen is from the Christian Mondeilh collection (No. 0755/2014), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2014)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 6.8 × 4.3 cm = 5.20” × 2.68” × 1.69”

EA13AM1: Very aerial aggregate of cubic Pyrite crystals with distinct polycrystalline growths, brilliant, and with curved faces and edges. Partially covered by small white Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.13” × 2.05” × 1.10”

EV8AL0: Three-dimensional floater group of cubo-octahedral Pyrite crystals, lustrous, with very well defined faces and edges, growing as markedly parallel aggregates. An elegant miniature.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.63” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.24” × 0.08”

ET47AM0: Very aerial group of cubic Pyrite crystals with staggered stepped faces. With brilliant luster and on a matrix of small Quartz and Calcite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.3 × 5.9 cm = 2.91” × 2.48” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

EA70W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Drusy growth, on matrix, of short disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite, They have a second phase of crystallization, of granular aspect, that coats the faces of the first crystalline growth. They are with comb-shaped growths of Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 20.5 × 14 × 7.5 cm = 8.07” × 5.51” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

TB37AD1: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with hoppered growths in some of their faces. They are bright and are on matrix, with Pyrite aggregates and small Baryte crystals. The quality of the Galena is better than usual for the locality.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2015)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.3 × 5.6 cm = 3.03” × 2.48” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.10” × 0.91”

MX67AI5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Very aerial aggregate, on matrix, of crystals that have a flattened shape, are very bright with a deep color and partially coated by small equant primary Malachite crystals.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 47 of the 2019/01 edition.
El Fecht prospects, El Fecht, Oumjrane, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (05/2018)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.52” × 2.44” × 1.10”

TY94AI5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Aggregate of crystals that have lenticular shape, are very bright with a deep color and partially coated by small flattened, equant primary Malachite crystals.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 51, December 5, 2018 edition.
El Fecht prospects, El Fecht, Oumjrane, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.6 × 4.1 cm = 2.91” × 2.20” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1 cm = 0.94” × 0.39”

EF94AL7: Very aerial group of sharp flattened Azurite crystals with good luster and translucent edges that transmit a vivid color. With a very curious morphology, it well represents the great quality of the specimens from this locality, unknown until about 2018-2019.
El Fecht prospects, El Fecht, Oumjrane, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 2.3 × 3.7 cm = 3.27” × 0.91” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

EY29AC0: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. An aggregate of very sharp flattened crystals that are bright with a very vivid color (even under daylight) that extraordinarily resembles the Milpillas “electric blue”. With the Azurite there are small white Barytes and Malachite aggregates.
From a new find in the Oumjrane area, possibly from some of the old works of this zone, these crystals have a luster and color that is superior to the previously known azurites from Morocco.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.4 × 4.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.73” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

EX51AC0: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. An aggregate of very sharp flattened crystals that are bright with a very vivid color (even under daylight) that extraordinarily resembles the Milpillas “electric blue”. With the Azurite there are small white Barytes and Malachite aggregates.
From a new find in the Oumjrane area, possibly from some of the old works of this zone, these crystals have a luster and color that is superior to the previously known azurites from Morocco.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.8 × 3.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.89” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.31” × 0.20”

ED99AE6: An aggregate of very sharp flattened crystals that are very bright with a vivid color that extraordinarily resembles the Milpillas “electric blue.” With the Azurite there are small white Baryte crystals and Malachite clusters. The sample is from an indeterminate place in the Oumjrane area, possibly from one of the old works of this zone. These crystals have a luster and color that is superior to the previously known azurites from Morocco.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.36” × 1.26” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”

E76ZI7: Groups of short prismatic crystals. They are very bright and have an exceptional color that enhances the contrast with the matrix of white Quartz. Oumjrane (or Oumjerane) is less well known than Touissit and it produced few very interesting specimens.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (1996)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6.5 × 6.6 cm = 3.39” × 2.56” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

ER90AC0: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2015. An aggregate of very sharp flattened crystals that are bright with a very vivid color (even under daylight) that extraordinarily resembles the Milpillas “electric blue”. With the Azurite there are small white Barytes and Malachite aggregates.
From a new find in the Oumjrane area, possibly from some of the old works of this zone, these crystals have a luster and color that is superior to the previously known azurites from Morocco.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 9 × 6.6 × 5.2 cm = 3.54” × 2.60” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

EG91AM1: Very sharp, transparent, brilliant Proustite crystals with an intense and vivid color that partially cover hooked Silver wires. On matrix, with white Quartz crystals and small but very sharp octahedral crystals of Acanthite. In Imiter, it is very rare to find free-standing specimens in a vug like this one, which also has the unusual detail of the Silver wire coated with red Proustite crystals.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2019)

Specimen size: 17.3 × 8.5 × 6.7 cm = 6.81” × 3.35” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

EM94AL6: Proustite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and excellent pyramidal terminations, transparent, very lustrous, bright red with mauve tones, and with small white Quartz coatings. Excellent specimen of high quality and very representative of the locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.1 × 4.3 cm = 2.80” × 1.61” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

ER94AK9: Arborescent and aerial hooked growths of bright native Silver, on Quartz matrix with cuboid growths of Acanthite.
The specimen comes from the Christian Mondeilh collection (No. 0760/2006), whose label we will send to the buyer. Unlike other Imiter Silvers, it has very good aesthetics and good definition in the arborescent crystals.
Imiter Mine, shaft P3, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2006)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.9 × 2.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.93” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 0.79”

TZ89Q0: A scultural growth, very aerial and esthetic, of microcrystals with skeletal forms, on matrix. The piece is from an old find in Imiter, probably around the decade of the 90’s and unusual as the habitual has a crystalline aspect.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.5 × 2.9 cm = 2.68” × 2.17” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.46” × 0.87”

TP49X2: Fissure plate of micro-crystals on matrix. The sample is from an old find at Imiter, probably around the 1990'ts. Its luster and fresh aspect suggest that it has no mercury and it is native Silver and not the variety kongsbergite, very common at this locality.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±1990)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 3.9 × 5.2 cm = 3.78” × 1.54” × 2.05”

MN56K9: Well defined octahedron of Acanthite pseudomorph after Argentite, with two small Acanthite crystals in parallel growth.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2005)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.1 × 1.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.83” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

EC63G1: The crystals of this group are pseudo-octahedral and very aerial and they have an excellent definition and an especially esthetic disposition.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2005)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.63” × 0.59”

EF89L9: A novelty from the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Mineral Show. Uniaxial and parallel growth of octahedral Acanthite pseudomorphous after Argentite crystals. With very well defined faces and edges, these specimens have an exceptional luster, much better than other Acanthite specimens from Imiter we have seen before. On the back side of the sample one can see small Pyrite and Calcite crystals.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2007)

Specimen size: 4 × 4 × 2.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.57” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.79”

EV87AL6: Lamellar and hackly growths of Silver with good luster, on a Calcite matrix, with aggregates of deformed Acanthite crystals, of grayish tones and shiny. The Calcite is fluorescent under both longwave and shortwave UV light.
Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2019)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.4 × 4.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.73” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.16”

TP90AJ1: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Groups of elongated prismatic Proustite crystals with excellent acute terminations, transparent, very bright with an extraordinary ruby-red color. On a Calcite matrix.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.42” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.2 cm = 0.35” × 0.08”

TX66AJ2: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Groups of Proustite crystals with an elongated prismatic shape, with parallel growths and excellent pyramidal terminations. The crystals, transparent and very bright, have an extraordinary ruby-red color. On a matrix with lenticular Calcite crystals.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.5 × 3.2 cm = 3.62” × 2.95” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.12”

TY39AK3: Groups of Proustite crystals of elongated prismatic habit, with excellent terminations, some of them polycrystalline, in Calcite matrix. These high quality crystals are transparent, brilliant, and with an extraordinary ruby red color with mauve tones, very characteristic of this find.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 8.8 × 5.7 cm = 4.61” × 3.46” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.16”

AB37AL3: Group of very sharp octahedral Gersdorffite crystals of good size, with polycrystalline growths on the surfaces of the faces.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2010)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.61” × 1.26” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.63”

MV6AJ0: A novelty at Munich 2018. This is one of the first mentions of Sphalerite as a collectible species at Aït Ahmane. It is a druse of not so well defined complex but translucent and bright crystals with a very deep honey color. They are with small Quartz crystals.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (05/2018)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.80” × 1.89” × 1.34”

EP87AI7: A novelty at Munich 2018. Group of colorless Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with diffuse phantom growths, abundant geometric growth figures and extraordinarily bright. A beautiful surprise from a very recent find in the Aït Ahmane area of Morocco.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 12.1 × 4.8 × 3.8 cm = 4.76” × 1.89” × 1.50”

MD36AI5: A novelty at Munich 2018. Scalenohedral crystal with rhombohedral terminal faces and very well defined polycrystalline growths. It is translucent, white, has slightly pink reflections and it is on a matrix of more Calcite. It shows an intense red fluorescence under long wave light and very intense red under short wave light.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 4.3 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.8 cm = 1.57” × 0.71”

MC86AI5: A novelty at Munich 2018. Group of scalenohedral crystals with rhombohedral terminal faces and very well defined polycrystalline growths. They are translucent, white, have slightly pink reflections and are on a matrix of more Calcite. It shows an intense red fluorescence under long wave light and very intense red under short wave light.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2018)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.9 × 5.3 cm = 3.27” × 2.72” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 0.79”

TC88AF7: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Parallel growth of very flattened and bright crystals. These samples were mined carefully over seven months in the Aït Ahmane area (it seems not in the same shafts that produced the famous Gersdorffites) and, due the sharpness of the crystals and their size, this find will contend for being the world's best for the species. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of the analysis that indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2 × 0.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.79” × 0.24”

TR66AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Aggregate on matrix of bright laminar crystals with pseudohexagonal contour. The analysis indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.2 × 3.5 cm = 2.20” × 1.65” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2 cm = 0.91” × 0.79”

TV86AF7: A novelty at Tucson 2017. A cluster, on matrix, of very sharp and flattened crystals with a pseudohexagonal contour. These samples were mined carefully over seven months in the Aït Ahmane area (it seems that not in the same shafts that produced the famous Gersdorffites) and, due the sharpness of the crystals and their size, this find will highlight between the world's best for the species. We’ll send to the buyer a copy of the analysis that indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite.
This sample has been referenced and figurate, as a novelty in Ste. Marie 2017, in the magazine "Le Règne Minéral" (Num. 136. 2017; page 47)
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4 × 1.9 cm = 2.24” × 1.57” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.67”

TV99AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Aggregate on matrix of bright laminar crystals with pseudohexagonal contour. The analysis indicates an intimate intergrowth of Djurleite and Chalcocite. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 46, April 14, 2017 edition.
Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (11/2014-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4 × 2.4 cm = 2.24” × 1.57” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.47”

EY63Y2: A novelty at St. Marie 2013 (because of the scalenohedral crystals). Druse, on matrix, of very acute scalenohedral crystals with rhombohedral terminations. They are between transparent and translucent and have a color between deep pink and mauve, with a second generation of crystals with the same morphology, but with orange shades.
Agoudal Mines, Agoudal, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2013)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 7.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.11” × 2.83” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.31” × 0.12”

EG96W2: Irregular aggregate of crystals formed by a short prism with six faces and a flattened terminal rhombohedron, with vertical parallel growths all along the prism. The crystals are bright and have a deep and uniform mauve color.
Agoudal Mines, Agoudal, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2012)

Specimen size: 8 × 7.5 × 3.3 cm = 3.15” × 2.95” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”

E84LA5: The small pink rosettes associated with the main crystals are a second generation of Erythrite.
Bou Azzer (Bou Azzer District), Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (06/2000)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 5 cm = 1.77” × 1.97”

GQ13AK2: Very sharp Erythrite crystal, with distinct parallel growths, very bright and uniform color and implanted on matrix, with small crystals of Calcite. The specimen is from the Casado Margolles collection (reg. V37), whose collection card we will send to the buyer.
Bou Azzer Mines, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2005)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.7 × 3.9 cm = 2.01” × 1.46” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.51” × 0.16”

ER73AK1: Very sharp and large crystals of Erythrite with fine parallel growths, bright and with a very dense and deep color. On a matrix of massive Skutterudite in which another species with salmon-pink crystals also appears and which we believe may be Talmessite. This specimen is a Moroccan classic with great quality and a very peculiar appearance.
Bou Azzer Mines, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (05/2019)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6.7 × 2.8 cm = 2.64” × 2.64” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.1 cm = 0.67” × 0.43”

M24LA7: Large crystals of this lustrous Erythrite on Skutterudite matrix.
Bou Azzer (Bou Azzer District), Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (06/2000)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 cm = 2.76” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.5 cm = 0.59”

EN83: Brilliant crystals in a Quartz pocket.
Bou Azzer (Bou Azzer District), Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (06/2000)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 7 cm = 2.83” × 2.76”

EC71AJ1: Aerial arborescent growth of native Gold microcrystals on Quartz crystals and with Malachite and Chrysocolla intergrowths.
Bleida Far West Mine, Bleida, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017-2018)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.42” × 0.87” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.47” × 0.08”

EC30AH7: For a few months good Golds related by Malachite and other species such as Chrysocolla and Covellite were found in the Bleida Far West mine that began work in 2005 but of which there were no was known specimens of Gold with this quality. As you can see they are very aesthetics and different from what was known so far.
Bleida Far West Mine, Bleida, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017-2018)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.1 × 3.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.22” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

EG10AL5: Hook-shaped and lamellar growths of Gold (variety electrum), very elongated, doubly terminated, on matrix, with Quartz, botryoidal Malachite aggregates and lighter green Chrysocolla aggregates. These Golds are a curiosity and a rarity in collections since only a few specimens were found and for only a few months.
Bleida Far West Mine, Bleida, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017-2018)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.30” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

FD16AL5: Very dominant elongated crystals of Allargentum, with intergrowths of Silver and Dyscrasite, on a Calcite matrix with centered growths of acicular crystals of Actinolite (byssolite variety). The Allargentum appears to be clearly the majority in the two analyses (EDS and XRD) carried out on the specimen, demonstrating that it is not a pseudomorph but rather Allargentum crystals intergrown with Dyscrasite and Silver. It comes from the Jordi Fabre collection. We will send the buyer a copy of the analyses and the original collection label (No. F1765)
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2009)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 4.5 × 2.5 cm = 3.31” × 1.77” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.51” × 0.16”

TC48AJ2: A novelty at Tucson 2019. An elongated prismatic Proustite crystal with parallel growths. The crystal, transparent and very bright, has an extraordinary ruby-red color.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2018)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.20” × 0.20”

JG87AK6: Groups of fine Proustite crystals of prismatic habit, with excellent prismatic terminations. The crystals, transparent, and with an extraordinary bright ruby-red color with mauve tones, sit on a Calcite matrix. This specimen, from one of the first finds of this type of Proustite in 2013, comes from the Jordi Fabre collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2013)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.23” × 2.05” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

EB89Y2: From an exceptional find in 2010 that provided excellent samples of Silver with Actinolite. In this case it is an aggregate of thick and elongated Silver crystals with very well defined faces and edges that are on a matrix of fibrous Actinolite. The Actinolite has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2010)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.85” × 1.22” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.16”

EA9Y2: From an exceptional find in 2010 that provided excellent samples of Silver with Actinolite. In this case it is an aggregate of thick and elongated Silver crystals with very well defined faces and edges that are on a matrix of fibrous Actinolite. The Actinolite has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2010)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm = 1.85” × 1.46” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

ED51Y2: From an exceptional find in 2010 that provided excellent samples of Silver with Actinolite. In this case with an aggregate of thick and elongated Silver crystals with very well defined faces and edges and on a matrix of fibrous Actinolite. The Actinolite has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #35, August 14, 2013 edition.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2010)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.4 × 2.5 cm = 2.13” × 1.73” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

ET10AA7: A curiosity: columnar Silver growths with only slightly defined crystalline surfaces, on matrix, with associated Arsenopyrite, silver-rich Tennantite and Pearceite. All the species on the sample have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the results to the buyer.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.75” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.51” × 0.24”

MZ56AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Aggregate of Baryte crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with a very intense yellow color, very bright and with very well defined faces and edges. On a matrix with Calcite crystals.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2015)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2 × 1.7 cm = 1.42” × 0.79” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1 cm = 0.79” × 0.39”

MX57AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Aggregate of very sharp Baryte crystals with a very deep and intense toasted honey color, extraordinarily bright and on a matrix with calcite crystals.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2015)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 3 × 2.2 cm = 2.83” × 1.18” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

LB67AK2: Group of Calcite crystals formed by a prism with slightly curved faces, with parallel polycrystalline growths on the surface and with the terminal faces being a smooth rhombohedron. The crystals, translucent and honey yellow, exhibit very well defined phantom scalenohedral growths. The specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 644), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Bouismas Mine, Bouismas, Tazenakht, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2010)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.2 × 2.5 cm = 4.06” × 3.23” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.26” × 0.87”

MV14AL3: Group of crystals formed by short six-sided prisms and a very flattened terminal rhombohedron, with parallel vertical growths along the prism. The crystals exhibit great luster and very uniform and deep color.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (10/2012)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.43” × 2.91” × 1.46”

MG26AL4: Coating of lenticular Beta-Roselite crystals, transparent, of a very deep red color with distinct mauve tones and on matrix. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08-09/2016)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.7 × 3.1 cm = 1.85” × 1.85” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

MD27AF0: A druse of lenticular and finely striated Beta-roselite crystals with a deep and uniform color, on matrix and with small clear and colorless Calcite crystals. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (08-09/2016)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 4.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.11” × 1.65” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

MA96AG4: Very sharp Scorodite crystals, transparent, with a very intense vitreous luster, a very uniform olive green color and on matrix. The sample is from a very recent find at the Oumlil mine.
Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2017)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 6.5 × 5 cm = 2.56” × 2.56” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

EH92AD7: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux- Mines 2016. Very aerial arborescent growth, on a Calcite matrix, of bright crystals with their faces slightly deformed but well defined. No similar samples are known from this mine.
Tamdrost Mine, Bou Azzer District, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (01-02/2016)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.6 × 2.6 cm = 2.24” × 1.81” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.39” × 0.08”

EH14AM1: Floater group of very sharp tabular Wulfenite crystals, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color, on a matrix of white rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. From a recent discovery at a classic locality.
Sidi Amer area, Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (03/2020)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.24” × 0.24”

EE14AM1: Floater group of tabular Wulfenite crystals, very sharp and rich in faces, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color, on a Dolomite matrix. With coatings of small crystals of Mottramite. From a recent discovery in a classic locality.
Sidi Amer area, Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (03/2020)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.9 × 1.7 cm = 1.34” × 1.14” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

ME27AA9: Very sharp laminar Wulfenite crystals, translucent, bright, with an intense yellow color and on a Dolomite matrix. Great classic, from a historic mine.
Sidi Amer, Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.81” × 1.50” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

A29KAG3: Groups of very sharp laminar Wulfenite crystals, clearly hemihedral, transparent, very bright, with an intense yellow color and on a Dolomite matrix. A Moroccan classic of the eighties.
Sidi Amer, Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (03/1996)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9 × 3.9 cm = 4.61” × 3.54” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”