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Baryte - Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco

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Stefan Koch

Baryte - Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
February 21, 2012 12:50PM

Registered: 3 years ago
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Hi,

there are lots of pictures listed of these pseudomorphs "baryte after calcite" from taouz. Are they really baryte?
I do own a small example of this find and it does react with HCl, so mine is just a simple quartzitic-sand-calcite.
Does anybody know something about these specimens?


© M.Youssef

Cheers,
Stefan

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Peter Seroka

Re: Baryte - Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
February 21, 2012 03:08PM

Registered: 7 years ago
Posts: 55

Hi Stefan

you may find information regarding the sand calcites from the (uncertain) Moroccan desert under:

http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Mineralienportrait/Calcit/Sandcalcit

Those specimen are definitely calcites, covered by micro crystals of quartz; they are no pseudomorphs of Baryte after Calcite.

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