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Bou-Agrao Mt., Tamazeght complex, High Atlas Mts, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco

Tamazeght, also known under the old name Jebel Bou-Agrao, is situated on the northern Central High Atlas flanks, between the populations of Zebzate and Ait Labbes, approx. 20 km southeast of Midelt.
It is an alkaline-peralkaline complex of volcanic to plutonic mass of Middle Eocene age.
Map Ref: 32° 36' 36.00" N / 04° 31' 41.89" W



References:
- KADAR, M. (1964) Minéralogie et implications peétrologiques des pegmatites de syénites néphéliniques du massif alcaline du Tamazeght (Haut Atlas de Midelt, Maroc). Unpublished Thesis, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse. 146 p.
- KHADEM ALLAH, Bouchra (1993): Syénites et pegmatites néphéliniques de complex alcaline du Tamazeght (Haut Atlas de Midelt, Maroc). Unpublished Thése Doctorat (Ph.D Thesis), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse. 240 p.
- Geology of Greenland Survey Bull., vol. 190.
- Marks M. A. W. et al. (2008): The alkaline-peralkaline Tamazeght Complex, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Mineral chemistry and petrological constraints for derivation from a compositionally heterogeneous mantle source.. Journal of Petrology, 49, 1097-1131.

- www.koeln.netsurf.de/~w.steffens/other.htm





Mineral List:
Aegirine
Albite
'Amphibole Group'
Analcime
Anatase
Andradite
Apatite-(CaF)
Arfvedsonite
Astrophyllite
Baryte
Biotite
Britholite-(Ce)
Calcite
Cancrinite
Catapleiite
Chalcopyrite
Cheralite
Copper
Diopside
Elpidite
Eudialyte
Fluorite
Galena
'Garnet Group'
Hedenbergite
Hematite
'Hiortdahlite'
Kupletskite
Lamprophyllite
Låvenite
Lorenzenite
Magnetite
Manganoneptunite
Microcline
Muscovite
Natrolite
Nepheline
Normandite
Orthoclase
'Parisite'
Pectolite
Polylithionite
Pyrite
Pyrochlore
Pyrophanite
Rinkite
Rosenbuschite
Rutile
Schorlomite
Smithsonite
Sodalite
Sphalerite
Strontianite
Synchysite-(Ce)
Thorite
Titanite
Vesuvianite
Vinogradovite
Willemite
Zircon


60 entries listed. 54 valid minerals.

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