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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM


BOU NAHAS MINE


Other Species

Pyrite with Baryte
Pyrite with Baryte. Pyrite with Baryte.
 

ER16AF4: Aggregates of cubic Pyrite crystals with polycrystalline growths and strong curvatures. They are extraordinarily bright with iridescences and are on a Baryte matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.38” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

Pyrite with Baryte
 

EA27AF4: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. Aggregates, on Baryte matrix, of very bright cubic Pyrite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and completely coating columnar growths of probably Marcassite twinned crystals.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a novelty from Ste. Marie 2017 in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 69 in the volume 23, number 1
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.2 × 5.2 cm = 2.87” × 2.05” × 2.05”

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

Pyrite with Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite with Baryte. Rear
Rear
Pyrite with Baryte.
Pyrite with Quartz
Pyrite with Quartz. Front
Front
Pyrite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

EF96W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Aggregate of cubic crystals of Pyrite with polycrystalline growths on their faces. They are very bright and have curved faces and edges and skeletal forms on the back side that reveal holes left by former crystals, probably Baryte.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 7 × 4.5 cm = 3.27” × 2.76” × 1.77”

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

Pyrite on Baryte "box" and Baryte
 

EC27Y1: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Echeloned growths of Pyrite perched on sharp casts left by preexisting thick tabular Baryte crystals that have been dissolved and subsequently replaced by a second generation of smaller colorless and transparent crystals of the same Baryte partially coating the Pyrite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2013)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.8 × 5 cm = 3.35” × 2.28” × 1.97”

Pyrite on Baryte
Pyrite with Baryte
Pyrite with Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ERR26AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.7 × 4.8 cm = 3.62” × 2.24” × 1.89”

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

Pyrite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ERT96AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6 × 3.9 cm = 4.09” × 2.36” × 1.54”

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

Pyrite with Baryte. Pyrite with Baryte.
Pyrite on Baryte "box" and Baryte
Pyrite on Baryte Pyrite on Baryte
 

EF67Y1: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Very aerial sample, with cubic Pyrite crystals showing rounded edges and echeloned growths perched on sharp casts left by preexisting thick tabular Baryte crystals that has been dissolved and subsequently replaced by a second generation of smaller colorless and transparent crystals of the same Baryte partially coating the Pyrite. On a matrix of white Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2013)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.3 × 7.5 cm = 4.21” × 3.27” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

Pyrite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EFM16AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 6.3 × 2.6 cm = 4.09” × 2.48” × 1.02”

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

Pyrite with Baryte. Pyrite with Baryte.
Pyrite on Baryte 'box' and Baryte
Pyrite on Baryte 'box' and Baryte.
 

ED47Y1: A novelty at St. Marie 2013. Echeloned growths of Pyrite perched on sharp casts left by preexisting thick tabular Baryte crystals that have been dissolved and subsequently replaced by a second generation of smaller colorless and transparent crystals of the same Baryte partially coating the Pyrite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2013)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 6.5 × 5.5 cm = 4.41” × 2.56” × 2.17”

Pyrite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EJK27AO9: Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022
Polycrystalline botryoidal coatings of very sharp cubic crystals of lustrous Pyrite on a white Baryte matrix. Different from what has been known so far from this mine.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2021)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 6 × 4 cm = 4.65” × 2.36” × 1.57”

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

Pyrite with Baryte. Pyrite with Baryte.
Marcasite
Marcasite. Front
Front
Marcasite. Rear
Rear
 

TY37AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Very fine radiating growths of Marcasite crystals that are extraordinarily sharp, miter-shaped, very bright and are with small laminar and transparent Baryte crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2014)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.4 × 3.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.73” × 1.38”

Marcasite with Quartz
 

EX96AI7: Very aerial rosette growths of very sharp and strongly flattened Marcasite crystals with extreme curving, intensely bright and on a Quartz matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.8 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 2.68” × 1.69”

Marcasite with Quartz. Front
Front
Marcasite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Marcasite
Marcasite. Front
Front
Marcasite. Rear
Rear
 

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 Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2020)

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

Marcasite with Chalcopyrite
 

EK67W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Very rich irregular aggregate of very flattened crystals of Marcasite that show, very well marked, the twin known as "cockscomb". They are extraordinarily bright, with small disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite, and have skeletal forms, especially on the back side of the sample, that reveal holes left by former tabular crystals, probably Baryte.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 6.4 × 4.2 cm = 3.66” × 2.52” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.12”

Marcasite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Marcasite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Marcasite with Chalcopyrite.
Marcasite with Barite, Pyrite and Quartz
Marcasite with Barite, Pyrite and Quartz. Marcasite with Barite, Pyrite and Quartz.
 

EC96AG3: Very aerial aggregate of very sharp Marcasite crystals that are bright, with very well defined faces and edges, and on Quartz matrix, with cubic Pyrite crystals and “book-like” aggregates of laminar and bright Baryte crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 11 × 5.7 × 8 cm = 4.33” × 2.24” × 3.15”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

Siderite with Marcasite and Quartz
 

EV46W2: Nice rosettes of Siderite partially covered by flattened crystals of Marcasite that show, very well marked, the twin known as "cockscomb" and with minor Quartz.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.7 × 4.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.85” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

Siderite with Marcasite and Quartz. Siderite with Marcasite and Quartz.
Chalcopyrite with Quartz
Chalcopyrite with Quartz.
 

EC16W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Very aerial aggregate, very rich in short disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite with a false appearance of the tetrahedron. They have very well defined faces and edges, are extraordinarily bright and some of them are very individualized. They are on a matrix of Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm = 2.36” × 1.85” × 1.69”

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

Chalcopyrite with Quartz
 

EA47W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Irregular aggregates of short disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite with a false appearance of the tetrahedron. They have very well defined faces and edges, are extraordinarily bright, partially iridescent in some areas on the sample, and some of them are very individualized. They are on matrix, with Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.3 × 6.7 cm = 4.13” × 3.27” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

Chalcopyrite with Quartz. Chalcopyrite with Quartz.
Copper
Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
 

EZ63AE5: Floater dendritic aggregate of small but very sharp octahedral crystals, also with the minor faces of the dodecahedron, a lot of them elongated and all have excellent color and luster. A nice miniature, very representative.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.1 × 2 cm = 1.57” × 1.22” × 0.79”

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

Copper with Cuprite
 

EH17AD8: Dendritic growth of crystals with perfectly defined faces and edges, very visibly twinned according to the Spinel law, and uniformly coated by Cuprite, with the typical reddish color. The sample, very fine and esthetic, is excellent in all orientations.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 52 of the 2016/02 edition
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2016)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.69” × 1.54” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.28”

Copper with Cuprite. Front
Front
Copper with Cuprite. Rear
Rear
Copper with Cuprite. Copper with Cuprite.
Copper (spinel twin)
Copper (spinel twin). Front
Front
Copper (spinel twin). Rear
Rear
 

EC56AM1: Arborescent growth of Copper crystals, some of them with dodecahedron-faced terminations and others that are extraordinarily sharp and elongated, with a very well defined spinel-law twin.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm = 2.01” × 1.50” × 0.87”

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

Copper
 

EP76AM5: Arborescent growth of Copper crystals with the dominant forms of the cube and the octahedron, shiny and with a very aesthetic arrangement.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2018)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.13” × 2.09” × 1.50”

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

Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper.
Copper
Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper  

EA14AK4: Very aerial arborescent growths of native Copper crystals with defined faces and edges, with small remnants of Quartz matrix.
The sample is from the Christian Mondeilh collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2014)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 3.15” × 1.77” × 1.18”

Former collection of Christian Mondeilh
Copper with Malachite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EXL14AP3: Arborescent growth, very aerial, of native Copper crystals that are deformed but with distinct crystal forms. Small fragments of Quartz matrix appear too, and it has Malachite coatings with very vivid tones. The specimen comes from recent finds at Bou Nahas in 2022.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2022)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 3.6 × 3.9 cm = 3.70” × 1.42” × 1.54”

Copper with Malachite. Copper with Malachite.
Copper with Malachite.
Copper with Quartz
Copper with Quartz. Front
Front
Copper with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Copper with Quartz  

EC26AK9: Outstanding arborescent growth of deformed and flattened Copper crystals, three-dimensional and sharp on the octahedral terminations. On a matrix of Quartz crystals.
The specimen is from the collection of Christian Mondeilh (no. 0517/1999), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2014)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.1 × 5.6 cm = 3.74” × 2.80” × 2.20”

Former collection of Christian Mondeilh
Galena with Calcite, Quartz and Chalcopyrite
 

EG87AH9: Group of very sharp cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with a good size, with very well defined faces and edges, bright and partially coated by Calcite and Quartz crystals and small Chalcopyrite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2017)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.4 × 5.1 cm = 2.56” × 2.13” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 4.1 cm = 1.61” × 1.61”

Galena with Calcite, Quartz and Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Galena with Calcite, Quartz and Chalcopyrite. Side
Side
Galena with Pyrite and Baryte
Galena with Pyrite and Baryte. Galena with Pyrite and Baryte.
 

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 Commune, 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”

Galena with Quartz and Marcasite

Recorded under neon light
 

EPT77CD1: From a particularly prolific mine, this Galena is distinguished by its crystals being very well
placed, so aerial, on its matrix of Quartz and Marcasite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2023)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 4.8 × 4.3 cm = 3.50” × 1.89” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.71”

Galena with Quartz and Marcasite. Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén
Galena with Pyrite and Quartz

Recorded under neon light

Recorded under neon light
 

EPF99CD4: Group of numerous isolated cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with well defined faces and edges, on matrix, accompanied by tabular Baryte crystals of a bluish color and crystals of Quartz that partially cover the Pyrite and Quartz matrix.
A beautiful association of this specimen of considerable size and very representative of what is found in the polymetallic Bou Nahas deposit.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (2023)

Specimen size: 16.7 × 14.4 × 3.9 cm = 6.57” × 5.67” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.83” × 0.79”


Baryte

Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz
 

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 Commune, 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”

Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz. Front
Front
Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Marcasite, Chalcopyrite and Siderite
Baryte with Marcasite, Chalcopyrite and Siderite.
 

EX13W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Floater parallel growth of thin tabular crystals of Baryte that are sharp with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent and very bright and have flattened crystals of Marcasite that show, very well marked, the twin known as "cockscomb", with bright disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite and minor crystals of Siderite.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 48 in number 2012/2
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.81” × 1.77” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 1.8 cm = 1.73” × 0.71”

Baryte with Malachite and Pyrite
 

EF16AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Single crystal, on matrix, 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. With Pyrite and Malachite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.20” × 1.26” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.55”

Baryte with Malachite and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Malachite and Pyrite. Side
Side
Baryte with Pyrite
Baryte with Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Pyrite. Rear
Rear
 

EH66AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Aggregate of crystals with a very unusual trigonal-like morphology. The crystals, which are complete, have very well defined faces and edges, and are translucent, very bright, with a
brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces. On a small Pyrite matrix.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.24” × 1.81” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.50”

Baryte with Chalcopyrite
 

EH14W2: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Floater parallel growth of thin tabular crystals of Baryte that are sharp with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent and very bright and have bright disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite on their faces.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines 2012’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 83 of number 5/2012
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2011-01/2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.3 × 2.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.69” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.1 cm = 1.46” × 1.22”

Baryte with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Side
Side
 

EG68AH8: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. 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.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2018 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 873 in the volume 49, number 6, and the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 36 of the 2018/02 edition.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.5 × 3.1 cm = 2.44” × 2.17” × 1.22”

Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz
 

EV96AH9: Very sharp thin tabular Baryte crystals, doubly terminated, complete, forming very well defined parallel growths. They are 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 Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.8 × 3 cm = 2.95” × 2.68” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.83” × 1.61”

Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz. Front
Front
Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Sphalerite and Quartz.
Baryte with Pyrite
Baryte with Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Pyrite. Rear
Rear
 

EL57AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Floater parallel growth of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #38, July 19, 2014 edition.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.5 × 2.1 cm = 3.03” × 2.17” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.18”

Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
 

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 Commune, 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”

Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Side
Side
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Side
Side
 

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 Commune, 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”

Baryte with Quartz
 

EH76AL4: Very sharp tabular crystals of Baryte one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, translucent, shiny and with a uniform light blue color. On matrix, with coatings of small Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 6.1 × 5.1 cm = 3.46” × 2.40” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 4 cm = 1.61” × 1.57”

Baryte with Quartz. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Quartz and Pyrite. Rear
Rear
 

EE49AH8: 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.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2018 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 142, page 20
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2017)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 4.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.58” × 1.81” × 1.77”

Baryte with Pyrite
 

EM69AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show. Parallel growth of thick tabular crystals with very well defined faces and edges and a very particular shape. They are transparent, very bright, with a brownish-yellow color and with darker selective micro-inclusions on some of the faces and are partially coated by deformed Pyrite crystals.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2014 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine "Lapis" number 07-08/2014, page 72
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2014)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 5.2 × 3 cm = 3.82” × 2.05” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.7 cm = 1.57” × 1.06”

Baryte with Pyrite. Front
Front
Baryte with Pyrite. Side
Side
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MKG13AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. Perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals, that retain the forms of two tabular and parallel Baryte crystals that have disappeared due to dissolution.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3 × 1.4 cm = 1.61” × 1.18” × 0.55”

Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MNP37AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. White parallel and tabular Baryte crystals covered by a perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals. On the back of the piece (see video) the almost total dissolution of the original Baryte crystals can be seen.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.9 × 2.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.32” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3 cm = 1.61” × 1.18”

Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Rear
Rear
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MTV67AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. White parallel and tabular Baryte crystals covered by a perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals. On the back of the piece (see video) the almost total dissolution of the original Baryte crystals can be seen.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 3.8 × 3.4 cm = 3.35” × 1.50” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.26” × 1.06”

Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MHJ91AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. White parallel and tabular Baryte crystals covered by a perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals. On the back of the piece (see video) the almost total dissolution of the original Baryte crystals can be seen.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What's New' section, report 62, June 5, 2022 edition, page 6
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.8 × 7 cm = 4.13” × 3.46” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 8.7 × 4 cm = 3.43” × 1.57”

Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Front
Front
Pyrite perimorphic of Baryte. Rear
Rear

OUMJRANE - EL FECHT AREA


Azurite with Malachite and Baryte
Azurite with Malachite and Baryte. Azurite with Malachite and Baryte.
 

EC47AC0: 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.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #41, August 22, 2015 edition, page 5
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.38” × 1.06” × 0.71”

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

Azurite with Barite and Malachite
 

EP27AL3: Aggregate of flattened crystals, very sharp, very lustrous and with a very vivid color that is extremely reminiscent of the electric blue of Milpillas crystals. On the faces of the Azurite there are small Baryte crystals and Malachite aggregates.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.42” × 1.02” × 0.55”

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

Azurite with Barite and Malachite. Front
Front
Azurite with Barite and Malachite. Side
Side
Azurite with Malachite and Baryte
Azurite with Malachite and Baryte. Azurite with Malachite and Baryte.
 

EB68AC0: 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 Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.42” × 1.30” × 1.10”

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

Azurite with Malachite and Baryte
 

ET47AC0: 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 Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.5 × 2.7 cm = 1.69” × 1.38” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

Azurite with Malachite and Baryte. Azurite with Malachite and Baryte.
Azurite with Malachite and Baryte
Azurite with Malachite and Baryte. Front
Front
Azurite with Malachite and Baryte. Side
Side
Azurite with Malachite and Baryte.
 

EZ70AC0: 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 Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04-05/2015)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 2.05” × 1.46” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

Azurite with Malachite and Baryte
 

ME27AL3: Aggregate of outstanding crystals with a lenticular habit, very well defined faces and edges, fine growth striations, very bright, very deep color, on matrix with small flattened crystals of primary Malachite.
El Fecht prospects, El Fecht, Oumjrane, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2010)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.30” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”

Azurite with Malachite and Baryte. Azurite with Malachite and Baryte.
Azurite with Calcite
Azurite with Calcite. Front
Front
Azurite with Calcite. Rear
Rear
 

TE87X8: Rosette aggregates of flattened Azurite crystals. They are bright, with deep blue color and vivid metallic blue transparency. They have small white Calcite crystals spread on their surface. It is a good size in comparison with the usual rosettes from this mine.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 2.2 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

Azurite with Malachite
 

CT97G2: The habit is very unusual. The absence of the main prism suggests the apparent form of a dipyramid or an octahedron. The contrast between the vivid blue of the Azurite and the green of botryoidal Malachite is superb. Crystal size is considerable. This is one of the few pieces found with this crystallographic habitus at the locality.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2005)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.5 × 3.7 cm = 2.76” × 2.56” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

Azurite with Malachite.
Azurite with Malachite.
Azurite with Malachite xx
Azurite with Malachite xx. Front
Front
Azurite with Malachite xx. Rear
Rear
Azurite with Malachite xx.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

Azurite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

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”

Azurite. Front
Front
Azurite. Rear
Rear
Azurite with Malachite xx
Azurite with Malachite xx. Front
Front
Azurite with Malachite xx. Rear
Rear
Azurite with Malachite xx. Side
Side
Azurite with Malachite xx. Close-up
Close-up
 

EH67AI5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Aggregate of crystals that have a flattened shape, very rich in faces, very bright with a very deep color and partially coated by small flattened crystals of primary Malachite.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 35 of the 2018/02 edition.
El Fecht prospects, El Fecht, Oumjrane, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (04/2018)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 5.6 × 4.4 cm = 4.17” × 2.20” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.79”

Azurite
 

ET99AL9: Equant crystals of Azurite with very well defined faces and edges and fine growth lines. Very lustrous, with a very deep color and vivid sparkling reflections. On matrix, with small equidimensional crystals of primary Malachite.
El Fecht prospects, El Fecht, Oumjrane, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (12/2019)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 8.9 × 5.4 cm = 4.41” × 3.50” × 2.13”

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

Azurite. Azurite.
Copper with Cuprite
Copper with Cuprite. Front
Front
Copper with Cuprite. Rear
Rear
 

EH6J8: Although they were previously known, we can consider those specimens a novelty. The group is arborescent and coated by secondary copper species (mainly Malachite) and crystals of Cuprite which are small deformed octahedrons.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2007)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.7 × 3.3 cm = 3.07” × 2.64” × 1.30”

Cuprite's areas fluorescent long & short UV
Copper with Malachite and Cuprite
 

EB13J8: Although they were previously known, we can consider those specimens a novelty. The group is arborescent and coated by secondary copper species (mainly Malachite) and crystals of Cuprite which are small deformed octahedrons.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2007)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 10.5 × 5.7 cm = 4.45” × 4.13” × 2.24”

Cuprite's areas fluorescent long & short UV
Copper with Malachite and Cuprite. Front
Front
Copper with Malachite and Cuprite. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Dioptase
Baryte with Dioptase. Front
Front
Baryte with Dioptase. Rear
Rear
 

NA13V4: Parallel aggregate of tabular crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very well delineated geometric zonal growths and partially colored by minor crusts of Dioptase.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2011)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.8 × 3.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.89” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.42”

Baryte with Dioptase
 

NF64X6: Platy growths showing the so-called sawtooth shape, of Baryte crystals with a very well marked geometrical color zoning, colorless and clear in the center and opaque white on the borders with reddish Hematite inclusions. Some of the crystals are partially coated by small crystalline Dioptase.
Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (09/2011)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.7 × 5.2 cm = 3.35” × 2.24” × 2.05”

Baryte with Dioptase.
Baryte with Dioptase. Baryte with Dioptase.

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