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Adamite from
Bou Skour Mine, Bou Skour mining district, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Adamite
Formula:Zn2(AsO4)(OH)
Habit:balls and aggregates of flat crystals; short prisms with diamond-shaped section
Colour:pale green
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Azurite1 photo of Adamite associated with Azurite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Adamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bou Skour Mine, Bou Skour mining district, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:680864
Long-form Identifier:1:3:680864:8
GUID (UUID V4):7f873f0e-c96f-4b8b-87db-e2c34773ec9e
Nearest other occurrences of Adamite
19.6km (12.2 miles) Agoulzi Mine, Bou Skour mining district, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
59.9km (37.2 miles) Ambed No. 2 Mine, Ambed, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
60.0km (37.3 miles) Ightem Mine (Irhtem Mine), Ightem, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
73.0km (45.3 miles) Bou Azzer Vein No. 2, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
77.3km (48.0 miles) Méchoui deposit, Méchoui, Ouisselsate Caïdat, Amerzgane Cercle, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
vein in banding. GRF. LMI. £6.00 3 APATITE, Etiro Mine, Karibab Disbict, South Africa. Sea blue soild XN...sliver. GRF. SM!. £10.00 11 CASSITERITE, Birch Tor Mine, Dartmoor, Devon. Massive ore. Olab on specimen...STIBICONITE after STIBNITE and STIBNITE, Knipes Mine, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Yellow chalky...VGRF. Ml. .- -£12.00 16 TETRAHEDRrTE, Silver Vein Mine, St Winnow, Cornwall. Glistening bright silvery...£12.00 21 NATIVE COPPER, Trephina Lode, Pendarves Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Golden thin leafy exposed vein
Catalog/List
94403 U.S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...green to 1.'hite hairs on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group...green tinted crystals on limonitic gossan. 101 ADAMITE, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Groups and fans of pale
Catalog/List
--------------_._------ APRIL/~1AV 1~..9_ 1 . ADAMITE . 1·1 ina Ojuela , t'la pim , Durango , Mexico...i men. 5x 2£x1-t " , 1:14 . 00 14 . AZURITE . Bou-Skour , - Joel Sa rhrp , ~10 ro cc o. Sh8rp br ight....00 15. AZUR ITE. Kerrouchen , At l as Mts. , Morocco. Sharp deep lus trous blue tabular crystal -t"...50p 1G. BARYTES . l'lib l a dEm , Atlas Mts . , Morocco. Lust rous - creamy to light pinkish agg regates..., £f.i .50p 19 . BOSJEMANITE . Alt e Al uumi he Mine , Uri , Switzerland . Silky creamy-fib rous mass
Journal (issue)
with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Paul & Barbara Matt Lauren...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarho, Ourzazate, Morocco, have the composition (Yt...occurring as an intergrowth with djurleite at the Ani mine, Akita, Japan, in prismatic or platy crystals closely...graftonite, as red-brown crystals from San Luis Province, Argentina, at Los Aleros, Amanda, and San Salvador...on a few specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona. Named for its discoverer...lead-grey aggregates from the North Lily mine, East Tintic district, Utah; orthorhombic. Named for P. Billingsley
Catalog/List
SPRING 1989 ft. We((enj\linera(s Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh", 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall... (Sanu ^IVeffeKjS/linerafs SPRING 1989 1. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela.Mapimi,Durango.Mexico. Lustrous bright-yellow...5x2-Jx1-J", £8.50. ALLOPHANE/LINARITE. Maid of Sunshine Mine,Cochise Co..Arizona.U.S.A. Highly attractive and... 1-£xl£x1", £8.00. 5- ALSTONITE. Fallowfields Mine,Nr.Hexham,Northumbria. A 2x£" channel developed...1£x£x5/8", £4.00. 13. ANGLESITE. Touissit,Nr.Oujda,Morocco. Choice , transparent slightly cloudy (due to Plumbian
Journal (issue)
just recently and we have made ar­ rangements to mine all that may be in the deposit. At the present we...Photomicrograph of gypsum crystals from the Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon County, Pennsyl­ vania. The entire duster... Winthrop was active in the development of the mining industry in both Massachusetts and Connecticut...Connecticut, and brought about the first commercial iron mining and smelting operation in this country at Saugus...long time after, there was also a thriving iron mining and iron smelting industry in Mas­ sachusetts and
Book
Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....often obtained by individual prospectors by placer mining. It is found along the mountain ranges of the western...areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains...several localities in Chile, and from the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan; also from Lake Superior
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Book (edition)
(top, right) vanadinite, Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center)...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet ...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely
Book (edition)
(top. 1ight) vanadinite, Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center)...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;
Journal (issue)
ber-D ecem ber 1977 ISSUE! TourmalineGolconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil SHOWS Sul/urPerticara, Romagna...U E S t AVETltlB 0)A C L PyromorphiteWheatley mine, Hours: Wed-Sat. 10-5 Sunday 12-5 [evenings by...E id a h l M in e ra lo g y o f th e Cham pion Mine, W h ite M o u n ta in s , C a lifo r n ia .......mineralogist of California. He headed the state mining bureau from 1880 to 1886 and his contributions...a l i f o r n i a , ________ -a Rhar e l Anz, Morocco MINERALS UNLIMITED 1724 University Avenue, Berkeley
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In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...sul¬ phides that you will meet frequently outside mining areas are those of iron, namely pyrite, FeS2, and...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...country. Above: Southwestern England, a traditional mining area. Colours show rock types. Black is dolerite
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metal and sulphur in a variety frequently phides mining that of structures, covalent than will you...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...country. Above. Southwestern England, a traditional mining area. Colours show rock types. Black is dolerite... include descriptions of mineral occurrences, mining areas and so on. These, together with papers in
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g.... canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country names...rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The
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K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...Petersen, 1987. Am. Min. 73(1988), 1492 (Abst.). Adamite, Zn2As04(0H), E Orth. Vitreous yellow, brownish-yellow...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 •nH20, ® Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=
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1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...Lane Rockport Massachusetts 01966 U.S.A. A Adamite, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Preamble t is with considerable
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British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...id ohlane nerwiplapinion) & Ncense cneeriooet BOU ; ESIMS.. REMMI MG + tanad i MPL -HleY seep...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity
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l'Universite-Pierre et Marie Curie, de l'Institut Catholique. Province. - Les collections de l'Ecole des Mines d'Ales...de Strasbourg. De nombreu-;es autres villes de province possedent des collections interessantes par leur...gazeux (sublimation). La courbe de fusion separe la region correspondant a l'etat solide de celle correspondant...ne sont plus nettement differencies ; c'est la region de l'etat fluide. L'etat liquide presente des caracteres...de revolution est le plan cyclique et c'est un cercle. Il y aura alors deux indices de refraction principaux
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List Acrochordite. See Akrochordite. 10th List Adamite. (Mineral Resources, US Geol. Survey, for 1903...Alundum (5th List) and Aloxite (7th List). Not the Adamite of C. Friedel, 1866. 8th List Adandit, error for...CO3)4.0-6H2O, from a lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan province, Afghanistan. The powder diagram...hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarhro,* Ouazazate,* Morocco, have the composition...270. Natural /1-FeOOH, occurring at the Akagane mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan, and named from the locality
Journal (entire run)
CL. Morvell Lithiophorite from the Kalgoorlie District, Wes tern Australia -1. Ostwald That Elusive Stichtite...Acicular Bustarnite and Ferroan Johannsenite, North Mine, Broken Hill, N.S.W.- W.R. Ryal/ & Albert Chapman...J.E. Johnson Copper Minerals from Bali Lo Copper Mine, Ashburton Downs, Western Australia - PJ. Bridge...K. Ferguson Further Minerals from the Dome Rock Mine, South Australia - E.R. Segnit •._ Ferrierite from...Territory - DH. McColl Corynite from the Mt. Martin District, Western Australia - J. Ostwald - Zoned Siderite
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Absitc. var. of brannerite. A .W.G. Whittle ( 1 954) Mining Rev. S. Austral. Dept. Mines no. 9 (for 1 952)...44. c 1 3 .50 A. A natural occurrence at a coal mine in the (TL) Lvov-Volynsk basin, USSR. Achates. syn...Nm. 37. 1 5. Adamine. syn. of adamite, q.v. The original spelling. Adamite (of Friedel). :Z.n 1 AsO,(OH)...Syn. Adamine. Var. Cuproadamite, cobaltoadamite. Adamite, trnde name. syn. of corundum. Mineral R esources...fPDF 25- 183 ). (TL) Bou-Skour copper deposit. Jebcl Sarhro. Ouazazatc, Morocco. Named for J . Agard
 
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