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Epidote from
Imilchil, Imilchil Caïdat, Imilchil Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Epidote
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Comments:Well-formed epidote crystals to several mm are present as late growths on orthoclase with melanite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz58 photos of Epidote associated with Quartz at this locality.
Titanite33 photos of Epidote associated with Titanite at this locality.
Magnetite15 photos of Epidote associated with Magnetite at this locality.
Orthoclase12 photos of Epidote associated with Orthoclase at this locality.
Prehnite12 photos of Epidote associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Melanite6 photos of Epidote associated with Melanite at this locality.
Hornblende Root Name Group6 photos of Epidote associated with Hornblende Root Name Group at this locality.
Fluorapatite6 photos of Epidote associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Feldspar Group4 photos of Epidote associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.
Apatite4 photos of Epidote associated with Apatite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epidote data
Locality Data:Click here to view Imilchil, Imilchil Caïdat, Imilchil Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Photo GalleryView Gallery (74 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:67009
Long-form Identifier:1:3:67009:4
GUID (UUID V4):d01d2f22-bbbf-40e1-9bba-faaf02ef0bef
Nearest other occurrences of Epidote
8.4km (5.2 miles) Tizi n Bab pass area, Tizi N'Isly Caïdat, Aghbala Cercle, Béni Mellal Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region, Morocco
36.0km (22.4 miles) Bou Tamatrine, Aït Yahya, d'Amouguer Caïdat, Imilchil Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
47.6km (29.6 miles) Jbel Masker, Tounfit Caïdat, Midelt Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orthoclase, the pericline variety of albite, calcite, epidote, muscovite, quartz, titanite, chabazite, and stilbite...Central Metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville Province of Canada (Tait and Bainbridge 2013); the apatite-magnetite...the syenite pegmatites in the Imilchil area, High Altas Mountains, Morocco (Jahn et al. 2003); the Alpine...(Belakovskiy 2013); and Mt. Xuebaoding, Sichuan Province, China (Rakovan 2013b). Many of these were mentioned...of Scandinavian apatite occurrences is the ore province of northern Norrbotten, Sweden. This is home to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Review of Sedimentary and Igneous Occurrences in Morocco Radouan El Bamiki 1 , Otmane Raji 1, *, Muhammad...Review of Sedimentary and Igneous Occurrences in Morocco. Minerals 2021, 11, 1137. https:// doi.org/10.3390/min11101137...Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Benguerir 43150, Morocco; radouan.elbamiki@um6p.ma (R.E.B.); muhammad.ouabid@um6p...Development, Avenue Hassan II, Khouribga 25000, Morocco; o.khadiriyazami@ocpgroup.ma Geosciences Montpellier...poorly understood and subject to scientific debate. Morocco holds the world’s largest deposits of sedimentary
Book
marokkanischen ses Buches die äußerst mineralreiche Region in Nordafrika nicht wiedergeben. Mineralien aus...und Mineralien aus Bou Azzer wurden hier auch Epidote und Quarze in langprismatischen Kristallen angeboten...die Mineralienläden (.. alle meine Freunde!") von Midelt gelotst - eine ganz schön stressige „Tour de Magazin...Mibladen . Auch hier im Ort das gleiche wie in Midelt Riesenauswahl, herrliche Stücke - aber die Preise...Aouli und Sidi Ajad Als nächste Station peilen wir Midelt mit den berühmten Bergwerken von Mibladen und Aouli
Catalog/List
brown translucent crystals, with green Imilchil Morocco epidote on albite xls. Nice micros Single lustrous
Journal (issue)
Meteorit Chinga in Frage kommt, der 1913 in der Region von Tannu-Tuva nahe dem Fluss Chinga im Grenzgebiet...gearbeitet wurde. Den Meteorit hatte man 1913 in der Region von Tannu-Tuva nahe dem Fluss Chinga im Grenzgebiet...wissenschaftlichen Projektes vorlag, konnte in die hochalpine Region nicht aufgestiegen werden. So wurde eine vielversprechende...wichtigen Fundstellen und Touristenattraktionen jeder Region, in der wir uns aufhielten, zu sehen. Unsere gemeinsame...Straße eine der größten Sehenswürdigkeiten der Region. Nach einigen Fotografierpausen - es hat manchmal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
found at Imilchil, Morocco, at several places near Oslo, Norway, and at Fushan, Hebei Province, China....(“hydrovesuvianite”) has recently been discovered in the Wilui region, Yakutia, Russia (Galuskin et al. 2003b), where...farm, Sauland, Telemark, Norway, associated with epidote, grossular, and massive pink zoisite (variety thulite)...more than two hundred years from the Wilui River region, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation. It was long
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on matrix from the Aggenes mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Andy Seibel Minerals specimen,...about 1 cm in diameter occur with grossular and epidote in skarn prospected at Guye Peak, King County;...currently available from Volcan Payun Matru, Mendoza Province, Argentina. Many good magnetite specimen localities...occur in schists and skarns of the Traversella region, Piedmont, and excellent groups of small dodecahedral...Norrbotten Province, and crystals to 7 cm have come from Hakansboda, Vastmanland Province. Fine magnetite
Journal (issue)
in the 1990s at Kara-Oba, also in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan, and it is possible that some were...Beryl Biotite Chlorite group Chrysocolla Dickite Epidote Feldspar groups Garnet group Halloysite Hydrobiotite... and some was sent to Altena, in the Sauerland region far to the west, to be further refined to metallic...situated about 25 km southeast of Wolfsberg. The whole region lies within the state of Saxony-Anhalt, which encloses...Rottleberoda was the longest-lived mine in the region, not closing until 1991). Just north of Wolfsberg
Journal (issue)
Situation mit Hotels bzw. Unterkünften? Schwab: Die Region von Colmar bietet eine große Auswahl an Überna...und herausragende Mineralien zeigen, die in der Region von Ste.-Marie/ Silbertal gefunden wurden. vorab...Auswahl an spanischen Mineralien anbot. Dazu zählten Epidote aus Katalonien und gelbe Fluorite aus der Mina...Neu waren auch diese Arfvedsonit-Kristalle aus Imilchil/Marokko, die Jordi Fahre an seinem Stand (Foto...allem die neuenArfvedsonite aus dem Gebiet um Imilchil in Marokko - mit Kristallen bis zu 7 cm Länge
Book
Courtesy M. Ihmadi (Ihmadi Trilobite Center, Alnif, Morocco) André Michard · Omar Saddiqi · Ahmed Chalouan...(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
Journal (issue)
localities: Minerals of the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia ........................................shattuckite, 7.1 cm, from the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia. Irv Brown specimen; Jeff Scovil photo...in the Kaokoveld district of the remote Kunene region. Associated minerals include rare secondary bismuth...al., 2007), has also been found in the Kaokoveld region as world-class specimens, but unlike those from...Kaokoveld mining district is located in the Kunene region of northwestern Namibia. The main mining areas
Journal (issue)
Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran...........................................least 2008. But the mining culture in this remote region of China was sometimes a little slow to recognize...systematic regional grid geochemical surveys in the region in the 1990s. They focused on the Bairendaba and...regional market city in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, when reselling Bairendaba specimens (Ottens, 2021)...et al. (2017) have summarized the geology of the region: The Bairendaba orebody is a typical mesothermal
Journal (issue)
Willcox 355 Vanadinite, 7.3 cm, from Mibladen, Morocco. Obtained from Daniel Trinchillo and Marcus Budil...The mineralogical future looks bright for this region, because there are still vast tracts of mountainous...kilometers in diameter, located in Damaraland, Erongo Province, Namibia, approximately 20 km north of Usakos...has excellent quality downloadable images of the region. HISTORY Cloos (1911) provided one of the earliest...Damaraland Alkaline Province (Pirajno, 1994). The other two are the Lüderitz Alkaline Province, of roughly the
Journal (issue)
deposit of An Phu, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 by D. Blauwet...large, colorless, transparent quartz crystals with epidote crystals to 15 cm included in them or resting on...works his mine in a well-known mineral-bearing region. Wilson Tomich The tall, lanky presence, the sharp...Austria, including the Untersulzbachtal, Knappenwand epidote locality, the Schlaining antimony mine, the Bernstein...climbing and minerals. He was transferred to the region of his native city, Wiener Neustadt, where he discharged
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
titanite with epidote, actinolite, calcite and quartz from an iron oxide – Cu – Au deposit at Imilchil, Morocco...from the Gilgit region, Pakistan, believed to be associated with regional albite– epidote veins. The Moroccan...and morphology, particularly in the LREE to MREE region. Data for titanite from the Blue granodiorite come
Journal (issue)
Dazu gehören recht interessante, prismatische Epidote, deren Fundort mit „Handon, Prov. He- ; Sonderschau...sen. Afrika Die geologisch nicht einheitliche Region von lmilchil in Marokko liefert seit etwas über...„Marokko" aus dem Bode-Verlag oder den Artikel über Imilchil in MW 4/2003). Seien es die vorzüglichen gelblichen...die braunen und grünen Titanite, die prächtigen Epidote, die beigefarbenen Feldspäte, die großen Vesuviane...und natür lieh die Zeolithe -in jedem Jahr ist Imilchil für eine Überraschung gut. Und die marokkanischen
Journal (issue)
self-collected minerals from a specific locality or region. Bingo! We soon had six cabinets promised: and...noticed a 10 cm specimen of sphene and epidote from Imilchil in the High Atlas Mountains with green crystals...coated by malachite from the Oumjrane Mine in Morocco. Mike also had a nice wulfenite where the crystals...veszelyite from the Laochang Mine, Gejiu County, Yunnan Province, China. These small specimens showed patches of
Catalog/List
X ½ £5 Ni As0 H/20 867 ANNABERGITE Ait Hamanc Morocco rich green mass, not pure, with minor calcite or...APATITE Minas Gerias Brazil BARYTES Mibladen Morocco Attractive creamy cockscomb crystal groups lx2...material lx2 £5 2x2£10 PbCO/3 1053 CERUSSITE Mibladcn Morocco Small clear crystals on pale pink crystallised...Phlogopite lxl90p lx2£2 2x2£5 Pyroxene 161 ■■ EPIDOTE Sauland Telemark Norway Olive Green masses and...crystal sections in qt1artz lxl £3 lx2 £5 241 EPIDOTE Loch Duich Scotland Yellow green mass with HORNBLENDE
Catalog/List
Ix½ £3 Ixl £5 Ampluoole Ix½ £4 lx2 £7 PbO 161 EPIDOTE Sauland Telcmark Norway 441 MAGNESIOGEDRITE Schisshyttan...Phlogopite Ix I 90p I x2 £2 2x2 £5 Pyroxene 241 EPIDOTE Loch Duich Scotland Yellow green mass with HORNBLENDE...on quartz lxl £2 lx2£4 1053 CERUSSITE Mibladen Morocco Small clear crystals on pale pink crystallised...£8 lx2 £3 2x2 £6 2x3 £10 65 ■ AZURITE Touissit Morocco 236 ANDESINE Boulouris, St Raphael, France Good...Baux, Provence France 867 ANNABERGITE Ait Hamane Morocco Rich red brown massive rich green mass, not pure
Book
localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing...clefts are found fairly commonly throughout this region, such that only a handful of notable finds during...specimens were brought to the 2003 Tucson show. MOROCCO Imilchil area. Outcrops of episyenite and of contact-metamorphic
Catalog/List
quartz l x \I, £4 36 121 ANNABERGITE Ait Hamane Morocco rich green mass, not pure, with minor calcite or...2x2 £4 2x3 £6 a) £5 b) £3 65 ■■ AZURITE Toussit Morocco 732 APATITE Parelho,Pariba,Brazil Good blue crystalline...£3 BaS0/4 Jx2 £4 2x2 £8 1039 BARYTES Mibladen Morocco Minas Gerias Brazil 54 APATITE Attractive creamy...CHRYSOPRASE Queensland Australia 1053 CERUSSITE Miblad~n Morocco variety of Chalcedony. Compact green massive s...Fluorescent lxl £4 FLUORESCE N" 1054 Pyroxene EPIDOTE Loch Duich Scotland Yellow green mass with HORNBLENDE
Journal (issue)
et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ..............World War II he lived in Cogne in Valle d' Aosta region, then moved to Milan where he attended high school...NANTITE DOMORPH AFTER RITE, 10.6CM EB MINE, JIKOTO REGION, MIBIA WWW.STONETRUST.COM 860-748- 1661 STEPHANIE@STONETRUST...2018 THE Mus0No1 MINE KOLWEZI DISTRICT, LUALABA PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Wendell E. Wilson...mine, is located in Lualaba Province-a part f the former Katanga* Province-in the Democratic Republic
Journal (issue)
Rhodochrosite on Manganite N'Chwaning Mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. 8.7 cm In 1978 a historic discovery...or even a group of discrete mines but rather a region where, most commonly, crystals are taken from thousands... of the British conquest in the 1880s, the Mogok region, controlled in turns by Shan and Burmese, traded...Kathé, and King Nandabayin sought to reclaim the region, preferably without further warfare. Somehow it...of that year all of Burma became officially a province of India. Immediately following the annexation
Journal (issue)
part of the Monteregian Hills alkaline igneous province. LOCATION The Francon quarry is unusual in being...Proterozoic Grenville Province, and on the southeast by the Humber Zone of the Appalachian Province. The sedimentary...Zone marks the western edge of the Appalachian Province. In the Montreal area, the Taconic Orogeny is...Hills alkaline igneous province its name (Adams, 1903). The Monteregian Province comprises an east-southeast-trending...which intrudes Proterozoic rocks of the Grenville Province; the major plutons Mont Royal, Mont SaintBruno
Journal (issue)
tourmaline mine, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Tien pegmatite, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Quartz, 12 cm, from the Minh Tien pegmatite, Yenbai Province, Vietnam. Frédéric Escaut specimen and photo (courtesy...above the title, representing the country, state, province or city in which the locality is situated. Occasionally...plants and animals as well as the minerals of the region. The work contains his collected observations on
 
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