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Fluorite from
Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:713437
Long-form Identifier:1:3:713437:1
GUID (UUID V4):b3941069-9d94-43f3-a9ce-e02d16de5c1f
References
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Hunting Minerals in Morocco By John F. Jedlicka 3536 E. Fairmount Ave. Baltimore 24, Md. I was greatly...Communications Station located at Port Lyautey, Morocco. Before leaving the states, I visited the Smithsonian...specimens they had acquired from localities in Morocco, provided me with a map and gave me letters of...in Rabat, the capital of Morocco. Approximately a month after reaching Morocco, I took the train from Port...drove to OuĂŻmes to visit the only tin locality in Morocco. W e hoped to collect ore specimens of tin, wolfram
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study of galena in the Upper-Moulouya District (Morocco) Received: 5 March 1997 / Accepted: 22 September...extensional movements associated with the opening of the Atlas rifting basin. The Mississippi Valley type MibladeÂn...Terre, Faculte des Sciences, Rabat, Morocco Introduction Morocco has been the most important lead producer...contains one of the largest concentrations of lead in Morocco, with a total output of more than one million metric...Eastern Meseta domain of Morocco, that lies between the Alpine ranges of the Middle Atlas to the north and the
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Peridiapiric Jbel Tirremi Fluorite-Barite Hydrothermal Deposit, Northeastern Morocco Mohammed Bouabdellah...Environnement, Faculté des Sciences, 60000 Oujda, Morocco 2 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università...Abstract The Jbel Tirremi fluorite-barite ± sulfide deposit in northeastern Morocco is hosted in a Jurassic-aged...lamprophyre dikes. The orebodies consist mostly of fluorite and barite, and occur as open-space fillings and...limestones. The ore mineralogy is dominated by fluorite of different colors and habits, barite, and, to
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Fe-Mn-Cu Ore of Jbel Rhals Deposit (Eastern High Atlas, Morocco) Michèle Verhaert 1, * ID , Alain Bernard 2...Hassan II, BP 5366, Maârif, 20100 Casablanca, Morocco; omarsaddiqi@yahoo.fr Equipe de Recherche: Géophysique...Ismaïl, BP. 509, Boutalamine, 52000 Errachidia, Morocco; mourad.essalhi@gmail.com Correspondence: michele-alexandra...Rhals deposit, located in the Oriental High Atlas of Morocco, hosts a polymetallic Fe-Mn-Cu ore. Large...conglomerates and Fe-Mn ores. Keywords: Moroccan High Atlas; supergene deposits; goethite; gossan; weathering
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of Earth Sciences Mohammed Ist University Oujda Morocco ISSN 2365-0559 Mineral Resource Reviews ISBN 978-3-319-31731-1...data on diverse types of metallic deposits in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan...lead-zinc-silver deposits of the Tighza district of Morocco, proposing links to granite-related porphyry and...Zgounder epithermal silver-mercury deposit of Morocco, providing evidence for a genetic tie to Neoproterozoic...transition recorded in the Ouixane iron district of Morocco, using new geochronological and fluid inclusion
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prospectors into wbat later were named the Weaver Mountains northeast of Yuma. They camped for the night at...crystals and botryoidal malachite in the Big Horn Mountains and azurite from near Tucson in 1855. Other explorers...Jarosite and calcite pseudomorph after ilvaite with fluorite and calcite, 9 cm, from the 1st Sovietskii mine...other publications. Fluorite, 9.6 cm, from the Felix mine, Azusa, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County...near Hayden, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona. Ex Si and Ann Frazier collection;
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Mississippi Valley-Type District of Northeastern Morocco: Relationships to the Messinian Salinity Crisis...Environnement, Faculté des Sciences, 60000 Oujda, Morocco 2 Helmholtz-Zentrum 3 Departamento Potsdam-Deutsches...Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) district of northeastern Morocco includes five major strata-bound Pb-Zn-Ag deposits...2010) except for fracture-controlled Pb-Zn and fluorite-barite deposits where a contribution of volatile-rich...surrounding and distal Pb-Zn prospects of northeastern Morocco (Fig. 1) for which an MVT affiliation has been
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Record Articles The Red Cloud mines, Gallinas Mountains, New Mexico .............................. 69...which ap­ parently compensates. The Appalachian Mountains, older geologically and culturally, are not the...acquired a complete set of Goldschmidt’s classic work, Atlas der Krystallformen, published in Heidelberg between...March— April, 1980 The Red Cloud Mines Gallinas Mountains, New Mexico By R. S. DeMark 9012 Hilton Avenue...Red Cloud mining d, situated in the Gal­ linas Mountains o f central New Mexico, is o f con­ siderable
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Bookstore at www.MineralogicalRecord.com Front cover: Fluorite on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim...Tom Spann photo. Back cover: Top row, from left: Fluorite, 6.7 cm, from the Weisseck, Austria. Collected...Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo Middle row, from left: Liddicoatite, 7 cm, from the Sahatany...by Federico Pezzotta; Antonio Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected...side. They were crowned by a single crystal in the middle of the aggregate about 4 inches on a side which
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off alone. In a group, hard terrain and even mountains can be fun to explore. - _. -: . ·:: .·-.-:...of Derbyshire, galena, sphalerite, barite and fluorite are the main minerals that occur in the limestone...131ue John Cavern show a beautiful variety of fluorite known as '13lueJohn' forming pillars tl1at support...res - there are no really big rivers and tl1e mountains are low by continental standards. Australia is...- as has happened twice in geological history mountains were formed and volcanic chains erupted. Even
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Hematite from the [Veta Grande claim,] Dome Rock Mountains near Quartzsite, Arizona (by M. Sprunger) 11:227-229...14:85-90 Ferroan dolomite from the Vekol mine [Vekol Mountains, Arizona] (by D. M. Shannon) 14:91 Famous mineral...14:115-117 Calciovolbonhite from the New Water Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona (by W. Hunt) 14:119 Famous...mineral discoveries for 1991 23:423438 ASTURIAS Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain (by...2·6H2O superseding "hydrogen autunite" 19:249-252 ATLAS OF CRYSTAL FORMS Victor Goldschmidt and his Arias
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(Maider, Eastern Anti-Atlas). Courtesy M. Ihmadi (Ihmadi Trilobite Center, Alnif, Morocco) André Michard...(Eds.) Continental Evolution: The Geology of Morocco Structure, Stratigraphy, and Tectonics of the ...Faculty of Sciences B.P. 5366 Maârif Casablanca Morocco o.saddiqi@fsac.ac ma Prof. Dr. Ahmed Chalouan...University avenue Ibn Batouta Rabat B.P. 1014 Morocco chalouan@fsr.ac.ma Prof. Dr. Dominique Frizon...including the major Pan-African and Variscan cycles, Morocco has always been characterized by intense mining
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and Witherite, Fluorite, Magnesite and Brucite . .. .. ... . Barile and witherite. Fluorite. Magnesite and...usage by many includes m a terials such as sulfur, fluorite, and barite. Also, there is a strong tendency...the ore is considered to be an accumulation of fluorite, barite, or some other mineral not • Many terms...minerals are quartz, calcite, fluorite , and barite. If enough fluorite, for example, were present in...in a deposit mined for a metal, the fluorite could be obtained as a by-product, and thus it would be an
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of 8,850 feet in southwest Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, a relatively young range of 14,000-foot-high...after the Laramide Orogeny had uplifted the Rocky Mountains 65 million years ago. Following the Laramide uplift...period of intense volcanism built the San Juan Mountains. Some 26 million years ago, a small volcano exploded...878-square-mile tract of forests, meadows, and rugged mountains with just 1,000 full-time residents. First-time...motorcycle trip in 1972. Drawn by the town’s rugged mountains, free spirit, and colorful history, she settled
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deposits by continents and countries is as follows: Morocco 3 Nigeria 1 Rhodesia 4 South Africa 20 South West...University Park, PA 16802 30 June 1975 AFRICA MOROCCO AZEGOVR Late Paleozoic Molybdenum^ Tungsten, Copper...de wolfram, molybdéne et cuivre d'Azegour (Haut-Atlas, Maroc) et dans celle du gíte de manganese de Guettara...Ein metallogenischer Querschnitt durch den Höher Atlas und Hinblick auf die alpine Metallogenese: Berg...dans des corneennes de la mine d'Azegour, Haut-Atlas: Serv. Geol. Maroc. Notes et Mem. no. 133, p. 125-138
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and/or pyrite, and (colorless, non-fluorescent) fluorite. The Arthur Russell collection in the Natural...matlockite enclosing small colorless cubes of fluorite, and specimens in my own collection show both...matlockite and phosgenite partially enclosing fluorite. There seem to be few specimens with phosgenite...galena and “ caw k” with small colorless cubes of fluorite, and small twinned crystals of cerussite. A cavity...from the Bage mine area are galena, barite and fluorite. It should be noted that the Bage mine lies roughly
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deals with Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. In great detail the geology, tectonic elements...geophysicists, who are working in North Africa and the Middle East. It is ideally suited for any professional...1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Egypt Libya Algeria Tunisia Morocco TECTONIC FRAMEWORK OF NORTH AFRICA 2 Northeast...Moroccan Basins 4.3.1 Evolution of the Atlas Mountains Western High Atlas Argana Basin Souss Basin Haouz Basin...8.2 Eocene 8.1.1 Lower Eocene (Ypresian) 8.1.2 Middle Eocene 8.1.3 Upper Eocene (Bartonian) Oligocene
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episodes of coeval Proterozoic metamorphism and Middle deformation followed by a long history of retrogression...which suggests that the quarry opened before the middle of the 19th Century. From available records it...pale-bluish cube , of 0.035 mm edge , which is possibly fluorite, is perched on a black, highly lustrous , metallic...Bristol district are generally accepted to be of Middle to Upper Triassic age. It is currently believed...Hewett and Fleischer (1960) noted that barite , fluorite , silica, and black , manganese dioxideimpregnated
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Early Jurassic rifting and link-up of the Arctic Middle ae ee ere ees on aa ices Hee xa el : ene...Cicene sles es) eelmelolae ecient Cantabrian mountains ... Byrenees yam et (atalonian ranzes anise ...Fairhead OF (Teas Veer ace ais ea Upper Aptian —middle (to lowermost upper?) Albian stage pe ade Upper...southern Grand Banks (Argo Formation) and offshore Morocco. Brine concentrations sufficient to deposit potash...deposits near the eastern edge of the Atlantic rift (Morocco, southwestern Portugal, Spain, France) have been
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siltstones with phosphate-siliceous layers. The middle part of this Gr includes dark-gray stromatolitic...grows from –1.8‰ at the Gr bottom to +6.1‰ in its middle parts. Second part of the section is characterised...and started between 600–580 Ma and continued into middle Cambrian. The Yenisei Gr was deposited during Ediacaran...involved the disintegration of the Hettangian to middle – upper Pliensbachian carbonate platform. Then...collected from Polish Carpathian Mountains were analyzed. The Carpathian Mountains are localized in the South-East
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elements of the landscape (hills, plateaux or mountains) exist where rocks are more resistant to weathering...the rift lakes in Africa, South America and the Middle East. Deflation lakes such as many on the Riverine...erosional regions and contain very few significant mountains. They may be composed of one or more cratons which...events. Austra- lian Aborigines have legends of mountains on fire from South Australia and northern Queensland...landscapes is in the eastern part of the Snowy Mountains of south-eastern New South Wales as illustrated
 
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