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Bleida Far West Mine, Bleida, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco

A surface mine, opened in 2005, for mining an estimate of 30.000 ounces of Au-reserves. This mine is located about 7 km NW of the mined-out Bleida copper deposit.

Sulphide-free Au-Pd mineralization, ocurring in a volcano-sedimentary sequence in altered amphibolites and chlorite schists of the Neoproterozoic Bou Azzer-El Graara inlier. Drilling also revealed a copper sulphide mineralization at greater depth.



References:
- El Ghorfi, M., Oberthür, T., Melcher, F., Lüders, V., El Boukhari, A., Maacha, L., Ziadi, R., and Baoutoul, H. (2006): Gold–palladium mineralization at Bleïda Far West, Bou Azzer–El Graara Inlier, Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Mineralium Deposita 41, 549-564.
- http://www.strahlen.org/vp/ma/bleidafarwest/





Mineral List:
  		•  Actinolite
  		• Albite
  		• Baryte
  		• Bornite
  		• Calcite
  		• Chalcocite
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• 'Chlorite Group'
  		• Clausthalite
  		• Clinozoisite
  		• Covellite
  		• Epidote
  		• Gold
    var: Electrum
       var: Palladian Gold
  		• Hematite
    var: Specularite
  		• 'Hornblende'
  		• Isomertieite
  		• Keithconnite
  		• Kotulskite
  		• Merenskyite
  		• Mertieite-I
  		• Palladseite
  		• Potarite ?
  		• Pyrite
  		• Quartz
  		• Sperrylite
  		• Tetra-auricupride
  		• Volynskite ?


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