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Gypsum from
Ouenza Mine, Ouenza, Ouenza District, Tébessa Province, Algeria


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ouenza Mine, Ouenza, Ouenza District, Tébessa Province, Algeria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:599207
Long-form Identifier:1:3:599207:2
GUID (UUID V4):3b0332c0-b3c2-46e3-92f9-1c75d746815d
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
36.1km (22.4 miles) Sidi Amor ben Salem Mine, Slata Pb-Zn deposit, Tajerouine, Kef, Tunisia
38.1km (23.7 miles) Sidi Youssef Mine, Sakiet Sidi Youssef (Saqiyat Sidi Yusuf), Kef, Tunisia
39.6km (24.6 miles) Garn Alfaya Mine, Garn Alfaya, Tajerouine, Kef, Tunisia
64.4km (40.0 miles) Bou Jaber Mine, Bou Jaber (Bou Jabeur), Kasserine, Tunisia
88.3km (54.9 miles) El Aguiba deposit, Nebeur, Kef, Tunisia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Essentially, hot brines from the buried evaporites, gypsum-derived and/or other formation waters are thought...metamorphic processes. Therefore, the deposits of Ouenza and Jerissa situated in unmetamorphosed Mesozoic...N. N. 1984) around the major deposits 229 of Ouenza and Jerissa occurs within marine platform sediments...Fig. 1. Location of the iron ore mines at Ouenza (Algeria) and Jerissa (Tunisia) (black, major outcrops...view of the economic importance of both mines. Ouenza is thought to have comprised geological reserves
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for hydrothermal formation of the Ouenza siderite deposit (NE Algeria) Received: 4 January 1996 / Accepted:...Accepted: 17 July 1996 Abstract The Ouenza siderite deposit is located proximal to evaporitic diapirs of...Tebessa 12000, Algeria 1 France) or sedimentary environments (Bilbao, Spain; Ouenza, Algeria; Djerissa and...isotopic and fluid inclusion data from the Ouenza deposit (Algeria) presented in this work support a complex...occurrences of galena, sphalerite, barite and fluorite (Ouenza, Boukhadra, Djerissa), whereas some Pb-Zn deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Triassic salt diapir in the Tunisia Salt Diapir Province. The ores are unconformity and faultcontrolled...University of Badji Mokhtar Annaba, Annaba 23000, Algeria 5 School of Earth and Environment, University...(Leach et al. 2005). North Tunisia and the adjacent Algeria region host numerous Pb-Zn (±Ba-F) deposits located...The NE-SW trending Tethyan Tunisia Salt Diapir Province (TSDP) in the eastern North African Alpine and...Jaber is located in the southwestern area of the province that corresponded to the transition zone between
Book
convert, refine and treat whatever you want to mine. From the initial evaluation and planning to the... Contents Section ae 7 1 Introduction 2 3 Algeria Egypt 15 18 4 Gulf States 27 5 tlrag 28...Solomon's mines are nothing but an ancient copper mine exploited by the ancient Egyptians. A temple dedicated...statistics Country Political system Capital city Algeria Bahrain* Egypt Iraq Jordan Republic Sheikhdom...important in locating mineral deposits. Every gold mine presently known in Egypt was operated thousands
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mississippi Valley-Type Ba-Pb-(± Zn) Ore of the Slata District, Tunisia: The Role of Halokinesis, Hydrocarbon...(Albian-Vraconian) along major faults in the Slata ore district raises the question of the roles played by halokinesis...tectonics in mineralization. The Slata mining district, located in the Tunisian salt diapiric zone, contains...that thermochemical sulfate reduction of Triassic gypsum was the main source of reduced sulfur for sulfides...Zn-Pb-Ba deposits, including those of the Slata district, are located in the proximity of both the Triassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been discovered and exploited in the Fluorite District of Zaghouan in northeastern Tunisia (Fig. 1a)...Geology 367 N. Jemmali et al. Fig. 1 Fluorite District of Zaghouan (north-eastern Tunisia): (a) map showing...1956). The base-metal deposits in the Fluorite District of Zaghouan, which are of the Mississippi Valley-type...Unlike the base-metal deposits in the Fluorite District of Zaghouan, most base-metal deposits in northern...carbonate-hosted Pb–Zn (-BaF-Sr) deposits in the Fluorite District of Zaghouan noted above, are hosted in Upper Jurassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
he separationof a tion of Tunisia and eastern Algeria was broadly as deeply submergedzone in northern...Characteristicsof the ore deposits:In Tunisia and eastern Algeria the ore deposits are distributed TRIASSIC •ß •...the initial erals (bipyramidalquartz included in gypsum,for piercementare weak, then the structuresand...establishment of carbonate reefs that form massifs(Slata, Ouenza,Jerissa)or isolatedpatches(Lorbeus,Kebbouch).The...septentrionale:Les concentrations 248. p•ridiapiriques du district minier de Nefate-Fedj el Adourn: Campbell, M.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
there are also numerous salt domes, celestite-gypsum, and Ni-Cu-PGE deposits found in the Gulf area...isotope composition of sulfur in CdS and in untreated gypsum samples was determined by a continuous flow technique...Apatite-(F), quartz, thaumasite, calcite, chalcedony, gypsum, ± pyrite Lens-shaped subhorizontal layers to...irregularly shaped nests of hematite. The runoff mine ore is a massive hematitic Fe ore with little goethite...approximately 30 m in thickness and is made up of several gypsum-dolomite-clay cyclothems. Analysis of sulfate layers
Book
Chenchouni (AJGS Editor): University of Tebessa, Algeria Ezzoura Errami (Guest Editor): Chouaïb Doukkali...Porphyry Molybdenum-Copper System, Eglab Massif (SW, Algeria) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karima Lagraa...Stefano Salvi, and Didier Béziat 61 Heavy Metals in Mine Waters of Diverse Mineralization of Polygenetic...the Tebessa Region Mineralizations (North-East Algeria) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....of Kef Essennoun Phosphorite Deposit (Northeast Algeria): Implication for Paleogeographic Setting and Paleoprocesses
Report (chapter)
part of the Atlas fold–thrust belt (northeastern Algeria and north Tunisia), there are numerous outcrops...emplacement of salt in the North African salt province, that is (1) a diapir or dome model (Bolze 1950;...towards the NW. However, in the North African salt province, the major submarine salt glaciers were deformed... With the exception of the North African salt province, other large submarine salt glacier provinces...Located in the northeastern Atlas system (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia), northern Tunisia is near the From:
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Stratigraphic and geographic distribution of rudists in Algeria: a state of the art by F. 161 -170 Chikhi-Aouimeur...included researches from North African countries (Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia), Europe (France, Germany, Italy...Negra (Tunisia) , Dr. Fettouma Chikhi-Aouimeur (Algeria) and Dr. M. Rashad Abdel-Kireem (Egypt). The workshop...the next level of geodynamic hypotheses. 3.4. ALGERIA The Cretaceous paleogeography and stratigraphy...stratigraphy developed in Tunisia extend westward into Algeria and eastward into Libya [3]. Shallow-water carbonates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Guern-Halfaya ore district and negatively in the organically-mature Slata R N mining district. Subsidence...of ~1000 m-thick evaporitic sequence (halite and gypsum) intercalated with siliciclastic rocks (Perthuisot...developed (e.g. Slata, Bou Jaber, Jerissa, and Ouenza; Dubourdieu, 1956; Smati, 1986; Perthuisot and...mineralization in the diapiric zone is part of the Zn-Pb province of the Circum- Mediterranean Sea and Alpine Europe...Jemmali et al., 2013). In the Slata Ba-Pb-(±Zn) district, the ore is hosted in the Aptian 4 JOURNAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tamra Fe-Mn deposit (Nappes zone, polymetallic district and volcanosedimentary 36 context), the Mn ores...and Yang, 1999). 90 Northern Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt) is noteworthy for its abundance...Africa (after Beukes et al., 2016). The Imini district 94 (Morocco) is considered as the economically...stratiform deposits are documented at Guettara in Algeria (Agard, 96 1965; Heflik, 1989). Mn deposits are...Paleocene, 203 phosphorite, phosphatic limestone and gypsum of the Eocene age (Sassi, 1974), and 204 siliclastic
Book
Chapter 4 Review of Countries and Territories 31 Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon... Countries directly affected in 2003 included Algeria, Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo...The western part of the southern African Archean province is also concealed by up to 200m of the Kalahari...the stabilization of the southern Africa Archean Province. 3 Paleoproterozoic Basement Development (Fig...by Birrimian supracrustals in the Baoule-Mossi Province of West Africa. The large gabbro-anorthosite complexes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Diapirs” of northwestern Tunisia and adjacent Algeria (Rouvier et al., 1985; Charef, 1986; Orgeval et...thereby defining the entire 900 km2 fluorite-barite district of Taourirt (Fig. 1). Regional Geologic Setting...their relationship to Jbel Tirremi fluorite-barite district (TD). Inset shows the location of TD with respect...the Pliensbachian sediments, consists of 350m of gypsum-bearing yellow to green marls and fossiliferous...in deposition of a 150-m-thick sequence of gray gypsum-bearing clays and bioclastic limestones. A thick
Book
and % Associated Sulphides at the Almad^n Mercury Mine, Spain.7 BARTHOLOME, P. , EVRARD, P. , KATEKESHA...and Associated Sulphides at the Almaden Mercury Mine, Spain M. Arnold, A. Maucher, and F. Saupe Abstract...equivalents may easily be found in the lower levels of the mine. Sample 3 is also stratigraphi¬ cally well defined...La s€rie ordovicienne et silurienne d'Almad&i (Province de Ciudad Real, Espagne). Point des connaissances..."Quartzite du Criadero" (= Valentien) d Almaden (Province de Ciudad Real, Espagne). Colloque sur l'Ordovicien
Journal (issue)
unimportant. I. R. Vawdry, a well-known figure of the district around St. George, came across a seam of this...risk of being overpowered by the scenery of that district. N ear, far, and at middle distance, he is conf...be followed when collecting wet specimens from a mine or when those collected at the surface are wet....and also looks west to visit the famous Mirabel Mine to after the camp ground, came down to prowl the...cleaned them with a damp cloth are beautiful. This mine has been written md then rubbed them with an oiled
Book (volume)
being India. Halite also occurs in quantity in Algeria, Abyssinia, China, Peru, Colombia, Santo Domingo...Huron, and Lambton in Ontario. Alter. Anhydrite, gypsum, polyhalite, celestite, dolomite, quartz, hematite...100. Found at several mines in the Huantajaya district, calcite, embolite, cerargyrite, bromyrite, iodyrite...as at Caracoles in Antofagasta, the Huantajaya district in Tarapaca, and especially Chanarcillo in Atacama;...Obtained in notable amounts in the Broken Hill district. New South Wales (bromian pt.). In the United
Journal (issue)
faces of fluorescent gypsum 14-15 The interaction between calcite from the Peregrina mine and UV light 17-18...crystalline manganese phyllosilicate from the Woods mine, NSW, Australia 95-102 Minerals in cavities in basalt...Mineralientage 2012  LE REGNE MINERAL # 109, 02.13 6-46 La mine de cuivre et plomb des Rats, Le Crozet, Loire. 47-52...te zeggen. Welke mijnen hebben wij toen bezocht? Mine de l’Etoile, Luwishwishi, Kipushi. Maar hijzelf...naar hartenlust o.a. ijzerertsen afkomstig van Ouenza, Algerije verzameld konden worden. De eerste voordracht
Book
affects its present characteristics as a minera1 province, because of the exposure of the various depth...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...and contains the principal Soviet porphyry Cu-Mo province estimated to represent some 15 Mt Cu and 200 Tt
Book
affects its present characteristics as a mineral province, because of the exposure of the various depth...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...and contains the principal Soviet porphyry Cu-Mo province estimated to represent some 15 Mt Cu and 200 Tt
Journal (issue)
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SELECTED NAME CHANGES Towns and cities (by country) Algeria Bone Bougie Philippeville Mauritania Annaba Bejaia...serious political disruptions in such countries as Algeria, Nigeria, Za1re, Rwanda, and Burundi; a reduction...Asbestos Graphite Mica Fluorspar Barite Potash Gypsum Magnesite Diatomite Feldspar 85 99 33 26 33...and advanced tech- A tea plantation in Thyolo District, Malawi In other areas, an exchange economy has...nationalizations of petroleum and mining companies in, e.g. Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Grumiplucite Grunerite Guanajuatite Gudmundite Gypsum Hafnon Halite Halloysite Halotrichite Hambergite...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...give the green color. Duricrusts containing chiefly gypsum. It is an ultramafic rock, a variety of peridotite...you look for a mine look near a mine”. This includes the imperative “if you look for a mine look for smelting...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is first and foremost recognized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Grumiplucite Grunerite Guanajuatite Gudmundite Gypsum Hafnon Halite Halloysite Halotrichite Hambergite...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...give the green color. Duricrusts containing chiefly gypsum. It is an ultramafic rock, a variety of peridotite...you look for a mine look near a mine”. This includes the imperative “if you look for a mine look for smelting...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is first and foremost recognized
 
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